Lead Business Analyst, VP

Job Title: Lead Business Analyst

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description

Technical Product is responsible for owning the delivery capacity, defining the application strategy, providing the technical product vision, creating the roadmap, and driving its execution.

Work includes:

• Understanding the banks technology at a deep level
• Collaborating with other Product Managers, development leads, architects, Operations, Sales and key clients (internal and/or external)
• Working with a variety of people across multiple departments and organizations in order to satisfy the needs of the bank and the clients, in compliance with architectural principles and guidelines, legal and regulatory requirements
• Driving the development of technical solutions to ensure they meet business needs and comply with architectural principles and guidelines alongside legal and regulatory requirements to ensure that the needs of the bank and the client are constantly met

Your key responsibilities

Your Role - What Youll Do

As Lead BA you would be playing a strategic leadership role within the organization, overseeing the business analysis function, ensuring that business requirements align with overall company strategy, and driving continuous improvement across processes, systems, and operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary liaison between the business, technology teams, and leadership, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
• Partner with management and key business stakeholders to understand the organization's objectives, challenges, and opportunities, and translate them into actionable strategies.
• Lead the process of capturing high-level business requirements, functional requirements, and translating them into detailed technical specifications for complex projects.

Your skills and experience

Skills Youll Need:

• Banking and Financial Market domain experience (Asset Management experience preferred).
• Ability to lead teams, communicate with management, and influence decision-making.
• Ability to handle complex data, perform data analysis, and understanding of high-level business requirements, functional requirements, data flow and data models. Working with UI/UX teams.
• Hands on experience with Agile/JIRA, creation of user stories etc.

Must Have:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in business analysis, business consulting, or a related field, with at least 3 years in a leadership /management role.
• Proven experience leading business analysis functions in large, complex organizations.
• Deep knowledge of business analysis frameworks, methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall), and best practices.

Desirable skills that will help you excel

• Oversee the analysis of business and operational data to provide insights that guide business decisions, including the use of advanced analytics tools and methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple large-scale projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Basic knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Excel pivot tables) is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to executives.
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor/masters degree in business, Finance, Information Technology, or related field.
• Any relevant certifications: Scaled Agile, Scrum, Product Owner etc. (good to have).