Business Analyst (Settlements)

Company Overview

As a global investment manager, we help institutions, intermediaries and individual across the planet meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. But as the world changes, so do our clients’ needs. That’s why we have a long history of adapting to suit the times and keeping our focus on what matters most to our clients. Doing this takes experience and expertise. We bring together people and data to spot the trends that will shape the future. This provides a unique perspective which allows us to always invest with conviction. 

We are a global business that’s managed locally. This allows us to always keep our clients’ needs at the heart of everything we do. For over two centuries and more than seven generations we’ve grown and developed our expertise in tandem with our client s’ needs and interests. Explore our interactive timeline to see how we’ve been shaping financial future since our very beginnings. Schroders’ culture and core values of Integrity, Passion, Teamwork, Innovation and Excellence are fundamental to our success, and it is important we reflect them in everything we do. 

Overview of Platform Change 

We are a friendly, supportive and collaborative team comprising of Programme and Project Managers, Business Analysts and PMO, who manage the analysis and delivery of platform wide change programmes and projects. 

Key Duties:

We are looking for a Regulatory Business Analyst for our Regulatory Programme:

• Deliver Comprehensive Business Analysis: Perform end-to-end business analysis for the regulation, including regulatory interpretation, GAP analyses, and documentation of detailed business requirements.
• Change Impact and Solution Design: Assess change impacts, identify viable solutions and document detailed functional business requirements.
• Shape Operating Models: Attend requirements-gathering workshops with senior stakeholders to define business needs across organisational structures, process workflows, and technology solutions.
• Deliver High-Quality Artefacts: Produce clear, actionable deliverables such as process maps, user stories, and requirements traceability matrices to enable successful delivery.
• Support Implementation: Partner with project teams to support testing, change readiness, and successful embedding of new processes and systems.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Management: Establish strong working relationships with stakeholders, capturing, challenging, and refining business requirements.

Essential skills and experience: 

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in regulatory business analysis.
• Professional business analysis qualification (e.g., IIBA CCBA minimum, CBAP preferred, PMI-PBA, or equivalent).
• Proven experience leading and developing business analyst teams, working on large-scale transformation programmes.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with proven expertise in influencing senior leadership and managing relationships to inspire confidence and maximise contributions across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and documentation abilities. Logical and structured thinker with a rigorous approach to problem-solving.
• Strong skills in written, visual, presentational, and verbal communication at all organisational levels.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, with a proven ability to deliver shared objectives within complex environments.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

• Significant experience with trade lifecycle, particularly portfolio construction, trade execution, settlement, and reporting.

  Highly Desirable Skills and Experience 

• Experience within the Asset Management industry and has a strong understanding of the post-trade landscape.
• Experience with post-trade global (EMEA, US and APAC) regulations (T+1 Settlement, CSDR, EMIR, SFTR, US SEC Treasury Clearing).
• Traceability of business requirements back to regulations.
• Vendor stakeholder management and business readiness experience (Aladdin and CTM).

Schroders is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.