Senior Business Analyst at La Fosse, London Area, £Contract Rate

We are seeking a Business Analyst – Payments to join our Business Analytics function, supporting our client’s application development team. This hands-on role involves defining and translating requirements from partner teams into actionable deliverables for software engineering. You’ll work on iterating existing products and driving the design and development of new solutions.

This hybrid role is based in central London.

As the Business Analyst – Payments, you will be responsible for:

Requirement Gathering & Analysis

• Meet with product/project managers and business analysts to elicit detailed requirements
• Lead problem definition with stakeholders and propose solutions for less complex issues
• Analyse requirements to determine system needs, translating them into realistic goals and well-defined user stories
• Run discovery workshops with product and engineering teams to refine understanding and capture requirements

Backlog Management & Agile Delivery

• Create epics, features, and user stories in collaboration with engineering managers, software engineers, and systems analysts
• Groom the engineering backlog and prioritize stories to ensure efficient delivery
• Ensure JIRA artefacts are consistently created and maintained across multiple levels
• Work with QA teams to define the definition of done for all requirements and artefacts

Project & Scope Management

• Manage project scope, ensuring requirements are agreed and signed off at project inception
• Capture and prioritize new requirements as projects evolve
• Refine requirements throughout the project lifecycle and assist in effort estimation

Documentation

• Improve templates for JIRA artefacts and write user guides or other customer-facing documentation

The successful Business Analyst – Payments, will bring:

• Working knowledge in the Financial Services/Payments sector with an understanding of FCA regulated produc
• Relevant experience in requirements gathering and stakeholder relationship building
• Experience working in cross-functional and large-scale projects
• Proficiency with agile methodologies, including creating user stories, features, and epics
• Expertise in JIRA and Confluence for backlog management and documentation
• Familiarity with backend systems, API-driven architectures, and low-latency products
• Knowledge of customer interaction with front ends
• Understanding of payments, fraud, anti-money laundering, or machine learning (preferred)
• The ability to run discovery workshops, capture outcomes, and refine requirements effectively
• Demonstrated process improvement and enhancement to existing operations
• A proactive approach, with the ability to manage workload independently and go beyond initial task scopes

What’s on Offer

• Competitive day rate (Outside IR35)
• Hybrid working model, with central London office attendance

The opportunity to work on innovative, impactful projects in a collaborative environment