Senior Business Analyst - Edinburgh

FDM Group Ltd.; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy in Leeds is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a hybrid role to support critical IT security initiatives. The ideal candidate will have at least 10 years of experience and strong expertise in data analysis and stakeholder management. You will engage with various teams to identify and drive closure of security gaps. This role offers opportunities for career development, mentoring, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Career coaching

Assignments with global companies

Annual leave

Work-place pension

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Business Analyst.
• Experience in data transformation and analysis.
• Knowledge of IT Security processes is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Engage with senior stakeholders to drive closure of security gaps.
• Support data-related tasks by analyzing large datasets.
• Maintain documentation of progress and communication with stakeholders.

Skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Risk awareness

Process mapping

Excel proficiency

Tools

Service Now

Job description

About The Role

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a to work for our client within the Insurance sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Edinburgh.

Our client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a high-priority IT security initiative that identified around 90 resolution points. You will support analytical activities on the critical remediation project for Phase 2 and 3 on the Credential Management workstream. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can quickly adapt and operate independently in a fast-paced environment. They will be comfortable working in a Waterfall delivery environment as well as be familiar with data analysis, reporting and identifying risk patterns.

Responsibilities

• Engage with senior stakeholders, across Security, Operations, Network, and Infrastructure teams
• Collaborate closely with Second Line Risk, a highly detail-oriented team, and deliver online presentations to stakeholders
• Drive closure of remaining security gaps to mitigate exposure to cyber threats
• Support data-related tasks, such as identifying high-risk users from large datasets (analysing portal access logs for ~7,000 users)
• Create and maintain documentation of progress, decisions and requirements
• Drive and support analysis, solution validation as well as track progress of projects to deliver Phase 2 and 3 objectives
• Provide consistent updates to senior stakeholders and project sponsors through reports or dashboards communicating risks and progress
• Conduct analysis on business impact of security issues while prioritising solutions based on importance and compliance requirements

About You

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• Comfortable with analysing and transforming large volumes of data
• Good working knowledge of Excel
• Experience with process mapping: As Is vs To Be with associated walk throughs along with technical colleagues
• Excellent awareness of risk, promoting a collaborative environment with risk to protect the client and customers
• Positive outlook, good team player, polite with a strong customer focus
• Stakeholder Management skills with the ability to prioritise
• Requirements gathering and documentation skills as well as knowledge of the Agile model
• Knowledge of IT Security Process and experience of Service Now with the reporting functionality provided by the application are highly desirable

About Us

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave
• Work-place pension

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.