460 Business Analysis jobs in the United Kingdom
Business Analysis Team Leader

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At Sage, Solution Design is a function that includes the two crucial roles of Business Analyst and Product Owner. These roles are at the centre of our design teams that are formed with colleagues from user experience, content, user experience research and architecture. These teams work closely with product management, product marketing and development to deliver products and services that our users love.
The role has line management responsibility for a team of business analysts and product owners working in a specific part of the Accountants Business Unit. They are also accountable for the work this team delivers, supporting the team in scoping, managing requirements and designing their individual projects or features. They may even own projects or features themselves. They identify and manage risks and dependencies in a complex system landscape and excel in their field, helping to improve processes and performance across the team.
This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle or Manchester office.
This role:
- Is a recognised expert and leading performer in design craft in product .
- Delivers robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Delivers exceptional quality design projects covering product areas, whole products, or undefined spaces.
- Delivers high-performing, thriving and contented teams.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role you'll:
- Line manage solution designers, business analysts and/product owners
- Act as an expert in analysis and design in software product development
- Deliver robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Define, embed, and drive continual improvement to processes and practice, operating on a scale beyond their team.
- Drive change, deliver major strategic projects, and provide thought leadership on major workstreams
- Effectively communicate organisational and process change at all organisational and individual levels.
- Influence stakeholders, leadership, and thought leaders through engagement and outreach, to deliver tactical advances.
- Be fluent with constructive challenge.
- Drive requirements gathering and analysis, solution ideation, iteration, and design decision-making with evidence and rationale
We're looking for the following skills and experience:
Analysis and Design
- A recognised expert in solution design/business analysis.
- A recognised expert in analysis and design standards, processes, industry best practice, and trends.
- Systems-level design thinker and visionary with strong instincts and outstanding intuition.
- Has an uncanny sense of design, acts as a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
- Understands not just execution of analysis and design, but the business aspects of products as well.
- Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools.
- Shares knowledge, skills, and inspires other team members.
Process, Practice, and Strategy
- Appropriate experience in defining effective high-level analysis and design processes, practice, and strategies.
- Ability to tailor textbook and industry-standard solutions to organisational and user context.
- Ability to operate with wide organisational scale and influence.
- Experience of influencing stakeholders and leadership to drive improvement.
Projects
- Appropriate experience of leading major projects and setting strategic direction.
- The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
- Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
- Develops processes for tackling problems using known methods; anticipates problems; develops facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
- Handle uncertainty and acute challenges with grace and calm.
- Are proactive, goal-oriented, and go after exciting challenges, rather than only being reactive.
People
- Appropriate experience of people management and team leadership.
- Demonstrates exceptional people skills - communication, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Expert in both leveraging strengths, and developing people.
- Experience of successful performance management.
- Experience of recruitment.
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Function:
Product Delivery
Country:
United Kingdom
Office Location:
Newcastle;Manchester
Work Place type:
Hybrid
Advert
Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.
Learn more about working at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/
Watch a video about our culture:youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE
We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out
Learn more about DEI at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Sage is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Sage will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Sage does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Business Analysis Team Leader

Posted 8 days ago
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Job Description:
At Sage, Solution Design is a function that includes the two crucial roles of Business Analyst and Product Owner. These roles are at the centre of our design teams that are formed with colleagues from user experience, content, user experience research and architecture. These teams work closely with product management, product marketing and development to deliver products and services that our users love.
The role has line management responsibility for a team of business analysts and product owners working in a specific part of the Accountants Business Unit. They are also accountable for the work this team delivers, supporting the team in scoping, managing requirements and designing their individual projects or features. They may even own projects or features themselves. They identify and manage risks and dependencies in a complex system landscape and excel in their field, helping to improve processes and performance across the team.
This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle or Manchester office.
This role:
- Is a recognised expert and leading performer in design craft in product .
- Delivers robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Delivers exceptional quality design projects covering product areas, whole products, or undefined spaces.
- Delivers high-performing, thriving and contented teams.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role you'll:
- Line manage solution designers, business analysts and/product owners
- Act as an expert in analysis and design in software product development
- Deliver robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Define, embed, and drive continual improvement to processes and practice, operating on a scale beyond their team.
- Drive change, deliver major strategic projects, and provide thought leadership on major workstreams
- Effectively communicate organisational and process change at all organisational and individual levels.
- Influence stakeholders, leadership, and thought leaders through engagement and outreach, to deliver tactical advances.
- Be fluent with constructive challenge.
- Drive requirements gathering and analysis, solution ideation, iteration, and design decision-making with evidence and rationale
We're looking for the following skills and experience:
Analysis and Design
- A recognised expert in solution design/business analysis.
- A recognised expert in analysis and design standards, processes, industry best practice, and trends.
- Systems-level design thinker and visionary with strong instincts and outstanding intuition.
- Has an uncanny sense of design, acts as a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
- Understands not just execution of analysis and design, but the business aspects of products as well.
- Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools.
- Shares knowledge, skills, and inspires other team members.
Process, Practice, and Strategy
- Appropriate experience in defining effective high-level analysis and design processes, practice, and strategies.
- Ability to tailor textbook and industry-standard solutions to organisational and user context.
- Ability to operate with wide organisational scale and influence.
- Experience of influencing stakeholders and leadership to drive improvement.
Projects
- Appropriate experience of leading major projects and setting strategic direction.
- The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
- Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
- Develops processes for tackling problems using known methods; anticipates problems; develops facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
- Handle uncertainty and acute challenges with grace and calm.
- Are proactive, goal-oriented, and go after exciting challenges, rather than only being reactive.
People
- Appropriate experience of people management and team leadership.
- Demonstrates exceptional people skills - communication, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Expert in both leveraging strengths, and developing people.
- Experience of successful performance management.
- Experience of recruitment.
#LI-MD1
Function:
Product Delivery
Country:
United Kingdom
Office Location:
Newcastle;Manchester
Work Place type:
Hybrid
Advert
Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.
Learn more about working at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/
Watch a video about our culture:youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE
We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out
Learn more about DEI at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Sage is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Sage will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Sage does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Business Analysis Professional Traine
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If so, this opportunity could be for you!
Due to a severe skills shortage in the marketplace, Business Analysts are in high demand.
We have a pool of employers who are seeking to employ newly trained individuals who are motivated to pursue a career in a variety of Business Analysis related roles.
Our programmes will provide you the knowledge, skills and certifications required to succeed. Upon completion we will match you with our pool of employers, to help fill essential roles within this sector.
Join us on our FREE Business Analysis Webinar, by clicking 'Apply for this job', and we will send you the joining link.
Once you have attended this Free Webinar, you can decide if this is something that you would like to pursue.
Requirements
NO EXPERIENCE REQUIREDYou should:
- Be analytical and have good attention to detail.
- Be committed to pursuing a career in Business analysis.
- Be a quick learner.
- Be able to think in a structured manner.
Benefits
- Quickest way to build an exciting career in the business world, whether you have little or no prior experience.
- Gain the skills, knowledge and certification required for a career in the Business analysis.
- Increased earning potential and job security.
- Flexible working opportunities within the industry.
- This programme is a great alternative to attending university or college, as this pathway offers a quicker and more flexible route to success in this sector.
Payment/Solution Architect (with business analysis expertise)
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Payment/Solution Architect (with business analysis expertise)
Posted 7 days ago
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Job Description:
- We are seeking a Payments/Solution Architect with strong expertise in payment system architecture, clearing mechanisms, and business analysis. The ideal candidate should have experience in SEPA (SCT & Instant), RTGS, ACH, ISO 20022 migration, SWIFT messaging (MT/MX), and cross-border payments.
- This role requires both technical leadership and business analysis proficiency, ensuring seamless design and implementation of payment solutions while engaging with regulators, payment schemes, and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and design payment solutions aligned with global standards, including SEPA SCT/Instant, RTGS, ACH, & TARGET2.
- Lead business analysis activities, including functional requirement gathering, solution documentation, and process reengineering.
- Lead ISO 20022 migration projects, ensuring alignment with SWIFT MX and GPI standards.
- Collaborate with regulators and payment schemes to facilitate direct or indirect participation in payment networks.
- Conduct gap analysis and requirement validation to ensure completeness and accuracy in payment system implementations.
- Drive payment system modernization initiatives, including real-time payment processing, accelerated settlements, and API-based payment integrations.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in Payment Architecture, Solution Design, and Business Analysis within the banking or fintech sector.
- Expertise in SEPA SCT & Instant, RTGS, ACH, SWIFT (MT/MX), ISO 20022, and real-time payments.
- Strong knowledge of payment settlement mechanisms and FX integration.
- Experience working with payment system regulators and payment scheme participation (direct/indirect).
- Proficiency in requirement gathering, process mapping, and gap analysis to identify and mitigate missed requirements.
- Hands-on experience with payment orchestration, billing integration, and high-value/low-value payment processing.
- Experience in Agile methodologies, working with cross-functional teams in a financial institution or fintech environment.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders across business, operations, IT, and regulatory bodies to ensure smooth implementation of payment solutions.
About Us:
- Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to .
Payment/Solution Architect (with business analysis expertise)
Posted today
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Job Description:
- We are seeking a Payments/Solution Architect with strong expertise in payment system architecture, clearing mechanisms, and business analysis. The ideal candidate should have experience in SEPA (SCT & Instant), RTGS, ACH, ISO 20022 migration, SWIFT messaging (MT/MX), and cross-border payments.
- This role requires both technical leadership and business analysis proficiency, ensuring seamless design and implementation of payment solutions while engaging with regulators, payment schemes, and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and design payment solutions aligned with global standards, including SEPA SCT/Instant, RTGS, ACH, & TARGET2.
- Lead business analysis activities, including functional requirement gathering, solution documentation, and process reengineering.
- Lead ISO 20022 migration projects, ensuring alignment with SWIFT MX and GPI standards.
- Collaborate with regulators and payment schemes to facilitate direct or indirect participation in payment networks.
- Conduct gap analysis and requirement validation to ensure completeness and accuracy in payment system implementations.
- Drive payment system modernization initiatives, including real-time payment processing, accelerated settlements, and API-based payment integrations.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in Payment Architecture, Solution Design, and Business Analysis within the banking or fintech sector.
- Expertise in SEPA SCT & Instant, RTGS, ACH, SWIFT (MT/MX), ISO 20022, and real-time payments.
- Strong knowledge of payment settlement mechanisms and FX integration.
- Experience working with payment system regulators and payment scheme participation (direct/indirect).
- Proficiency in requirement gathering, process mapping, and gap analysis to identify and mitigate missed requirements.
- Hands-on experience with payment orchestration, billing integration, and high-value/low-value payment processing.
- Experience in Agile methodologies, working with cross-functional teams in a financial institution or fintech environment.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders across business, operations, IT, and regulatory bodies to ensure smooth implementation of payment solutions.
About Us:
- Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to
Business Intelligence
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1 Year Fixed Term Contract – Full Time
This is an exciting time to be working for the London Borough of Redbridge, we have an ambitious corporate plan that we are committed to delivering and we are in the process of shaping new work streams to fundamentally change the way that the council works in the future and uses its data. We are strengthening our approach to data and performance management whilst ensuring there is robust visibility of data, and appropriate processes in place deliver our statutory obligations and mitigate risk.
We are looking for a Business Intelligence and Data Officer on a 1 year fixed term basis to lead a central role in monitoring performance, identifying, and advising service weaknesses to support data collation and ensuring compliance to statutory reporting for Education and Inclusion. Skills should include transforming raw data into insightful and user-friendly dashboards including Power BI Development. This role involves working end-to-end from writing SQL queries to extract and shaping datasets, through to designing and publishing final dashboards in Power BI.
The role will lead on the process of enabling intelligence and data provision from our Education systems and will support the service to address and resolve identified issues and prevent the need of further data cleansing by embedding a positive performance management culture where data is recorded in a timely and accurate manner to support decision making and ensure compliance to Statutory Returns duties.
For further information or a discussion on this role please contact Damon Last
To apply for this post please complete the online application form and attach your CV and a Covering Letter addressing how you meet the criteria for the role as stated in the person specification.
All short-listed applicants will need to demonstrate proof of right to work in the UK.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment and welcome applications from qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, colour, race, religion, or belief.
1 Year Fixed Term Contract – Full Time
This is an exciting time to be working for the London Borough of Redbridge, we have an ambitious corporate plan that we are committed to delivering and we are in the process of shaping new work streams to fundamentally change the way that the council works in the future and uses its data. We are strengthening our approach to data and performance management whilst ensuring there is robust visibility of data, and appropriate processes in place deliver our statutory obligations and mitigate risk.
We are looking for a Business Intelligence and Data Officer on a 1 year fixed term basis to lead a central role in monitoring performance, identifying, and advising service weaknesses to support data collation and ensuring compliance to statutory reporting for Education and Inclusion. Skills should include transforming raw data into insightful and user-friendly dashboards including Power BI Development. This role involves working end-to-end from writing SQL queries to extract and shaping datasets, through to designing and publishing final dashboards in Power BI.
The role will lead on the process of enabling intelligence and data provision from our Education systems and will support the service to address and resolve identified issues and prevent the need of further data cleansing by embedding a positive performance management culture where data is recorded in a timely and accurate manner to support decision making and ensure compliance to Statutory Returns duties.
For further information or a discussion on this role please contact Damon Last
To apply for this post please complete the online application form and attach your CV and a Covering Letter addressing how you meet the criteria for the role as stated in the person specification.
All short-listed applicants will need to demonstrate proof of right to work in the UK.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment and welcome applications from qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, colour, race, religion, or belief.
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