Junior Business Analyst - Payments Change - Banking

A leading UK bank is hiring a Junior Business Analyst to join a major payments modernisation programme in London.

The bank is replacing Legacy payments technology with a new payments engine. This is an opportunity for an early-career BA, or a capable analyst ready to step into a broader BA role, to gain exposure to a large-scale banking transformation.

You will work with experienced Business Analysts, Product Owners, technology teams, operations and third-party suppliers, supporting the delivery of change from requirements through to testing and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Support the gathering, analysis and documentation of business and functional requirements.
• Produce process maps, user stories, impact assessments, traceability documentation and meeting outputs.
• Help assess the operational and business impacts of payments-related change.
• Support workshops with business, technology and operational stakeholders.
• Assist with User Acceptance Testing, including test scenarios, evidence, defect tracking and business sign-off.
• Work with project teams to ensure requirements are understood, documented and traceable through delivery.
• Support implementation, operational readiness and handover activities.
• Use Jira and Confluence to manage requirements, documentation and delivery activity.
• Work in a structured banking environment with Agile delivery methods, formal governance and defined change controls.

What we are looking for

• Some prior Business Analysis experience, or experience in a closely related role such as Change Analyst, Project Analyst, PMO Analyst, Operations Analyst or Systems Analyst.
• Able to demonstrate strong analytical thinking, attention to detail and the ability to turn stakeholder input into clear documentation.
• Exposure to requirements gathering, process mapping, UAT, system change or operational change.
• Good communication skills and confidence working with different stakeholders.
• Comfortable learning in a fast-moving programme environment.
• Awareness of Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.
• Experience using, or willingness to learn, Jira and Confluence.

Desirable

• Experience within banking, financial services or another regulated environment.
• Any exposure to payments, payment operations, payment technology, payment schemes, or payments-related change.
• Experience supporting a third-party software or vendor implementation.
• Familiarity with Faster Payments, CHAPS, Bacs, SWIFT, SEPA, ISO 20022 or payment-processing environments.

This role suits someone who has sound core BA skills and wants to build a career in payments and banking technology change. The client is open to a junior profile where the individual can demonstrate the capability, structure and appetite to step up.