Senior Business Analyst

<p><span>Job Title: Senior Business Analyst</span></p> <p><span>📍 </span><span>Location:</span><br/><span>UK - Hybrid (Remote/Onsite)</span><span><br/></span><span> 🕒 </span><span>Full-Time | Senior Role</span><span><br/><br/></span></p> <p><span>Role Summary:</span></p> <p><span>We are seeking a skilled </span><span>Business Analyst</span><span> to support our enterprise-wide </span><span>Data Retention Program</span><span>, focused on ensuring compliance and alignment with legal, regulatory, and operational requirements. This role involves reviewing 30+ applications to assess their data handling practices, determine criticality and risk, and contribute to the development and documentation of appropriate retention strategies.</span></p> <p><span>The Business Analyst will work closely with Legal, Data Protection, Risk, and technical teams, gathering requirements, validating data usage, and facilitating decision-making around scoping and implementing retention strategies.</span></p> <p><br/></p> <p><br/></p> <p><span>Key Responsibilities:</span></p> <ul> <li><span>Conduct stakeholder interviews across business units to understand how data is collected, processed, stored, and used.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Evaluate each application to assess its criticality and compliance risk level, supporting Step 2A of the program (risk classification and validation).</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Document what type of data is collected, processed, or retained (e.g., personal, sensitive, transactional).</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Compare current vs. future data retention needs and help define appropriate strategies per application.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Review relevant third-party contracts or vendor agreements, where applicable, to understand external data obligations.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Support the creation and documentation of data retention policies and technical/system action plans.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Facilitate reviews and approvals with Legal, Risk, SMEs, and Compliance to validate proposed approaches.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Produce reports to explain and justify which applications were included or excluded from the data retention implementation scope.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Track business impact, dependencies, and change readiness across teams.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Ensure high-quality documentation to support audit and record-keeping requirements.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> </ul> <p><span>Qualifications:</span></p> <ul> <li><span>Proven experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within regulatory, data governance, or risk-related initiatives.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, capable of aligning business, legal, and technical teams.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Analytical mindset and attention to detail when assessing data and system behaviors.</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Experience in regulated environments (financial services preferred).</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Solid understanding of data privacy and protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, or similar).</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Strong documentation, reporting, and requirements-gathering capabilities.</span><span><br/></span></li> </ul> <p><br/></p> <p><span>Preferred Tools &amp; Methodologies:</span></p> <ul> <li><span>Confluence &amp; JIRA for documentation and workflow tracking</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Excel &amp; BIA templates for data analysis</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>Visio or Lucidchart for process mapping and data flow diagrams</span><span><br/><br/></span></li> <li><span>SharePoint or similar for documentation management</span><br/></li> </ul> <p><br/></p>