Business Analyst

Investec – Where Out of the Ordinary Happens

At Investec, we do things differently. We're a leading international bank and wealth manager built on a culture of curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit and human connection. Ideas are heard, ambition is celebrated, and impact is encouraged. As part of a team that challenges convention and strives for outperformance, you'll help shape bold solutions for clients who expect something more than the ordinary.

We're looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join our Credit Origination & Decisioning team, supporting the continued evolution of CAM, a strategic credit platform serving multiple business areas across the organisation.

This is an opportunity to play a key role within a modern, interconnected technology platform where business analysis goes far beyond requirements gathering. You will partner closely with business stakeholders, architects, engineers and QA teams to shape solutions, analyse complex data and integrations, and help deliver enhancements that improve business processes and customer outcomes. Working from discovery through to delivery and validation, you'll help ensure solutions are practical, scalable and aligned to Investec's cloud-first technology strategy.

We are looking for someone who is curious, pragmatic and collaborative. You'll thrive in this role if you enjoy solving complex problems, take ownership of outcomes, build strong relationships across teams and are comfortable navigating ambiguity while helping drive technology change. Working within a close-knit UK and South Africa team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute beyond traditional business analysis activities and help shape the future of a strategically important credit platform

What will I be doing?

• Partner with business stakeholders and technology teams to understand business challenges and translate them into clear, technically credible requirements and user stories.
• Participate in discovery, refinement and solution design sessions, contributing both business context and technical insight.
• Analyse end-to-end business processes, system interactions, integrations and dependencies across the wider credit platform.
• Investigate data, validate requirements and support problem-solving activities using SQL and other analysis techniques.
• Document data mappings, interface requirements, API behaviours, JSON structures and field-level relationships across systems.
• Work closely with engineers and QA teams throughout delivery, ensuring requirements remain clear and aligned to intended business outcomes.
• Support release readiness, post-implementation activities and production issue investigation as part of the team's shared support model.
• Maintain delivery visibility through accurate Agile tooling, traceability and end-to-end lifecycle management.

What are we looking for?

What's Essential

• Significant experience working as a Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst or Systems Analyst in a complex technology environment.
• Strong SQL capability, including the ability to write and interpret complex queries to investigate issues and validate outcomes.
• Experience working across shared platforms, multiple applications or interconnected systems with complex integrations.
• Work confidently with APIs, JSON payloads and system-to-system exchanges, asking the right technical questions.
• Strong understanding of data architecture concepts, including data structures, mappings, lineage and entity relationships.
• Experience working with APIs, system integrations, interface requirements and API documentation or testing.
• Strong Agile delivery experience, particularly within Scrum environments.
• Ability to define both functional and non-functional requirements, considering scalability, resilience, security and performance.
• Proven ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and collaborate effectively with business teams, architects, engineers and QA.

What's Desirable

• Experience within financial services, credit risk, lending or similar regulated environments.
• Experience with Azure Cosmos DB or other non-relational/document databases.
• Knowledge of Azure services and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience modelling business processes using BPMN.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira or similar delivery management tools.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and modern distributed systems.
• Understanding of artificial intelligence and agentic development concepts and how they can support delivery or platform capabilities.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data or a related discipline, postgraduate study in a data-related field, or relevant Azure certification.

As part of our collaborative & agile culture, our working week is 4 days in the office and one day remote. We believe that being together enables us to live our values and support our clients and communities in an extraordinary way.

Investec offers a range of wellbeing benefits to make our people feel healthier, balanced and more fulfilled in their lives inside and outside of work. You can find a list of our benefits here

Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation. We believe that innovation thrives when everyone feels respected, included, and empowered to contribute.

We actively seek out diverse talent and foster an inclusive environment, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. Here, you'll find networks, benefits, and development opportunities designed to support your career journey, wherever it may lead.

If this role excites you but you don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective and experience could be exactly what we are looking for. Get in touch!

At Investec, we're deeply invested in our clients, our colleagues, and our communities. It's more than a mindset; it's how we show up every day.

Be part of something Out of the Ordinary.

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