BlackRock

Forward deployed business analyst in financial services

In short

Forward Deployed Business Analyst role at BlackRock's Transformation Office in London, working in cross-functional teams to reimagine and scale business processes and operating models using AI-enabled prototyping. Requires 3–5 years in transformation, product delivery, business architecture or technology-enabled change, plus financial services experience and strong stakeholder communication skills. Senior-level hybrid position requiring at least 4 days per week in the office.

About the Role
The BlackRock Transformation Office (BTO) is a global group of change professionals that delivers strategic transformation to help make BlackRock greater than the sum of its parts. We drive 1BLK outcomes by continuously connecting and being students of the firm's people, processes and technology. The Forward Deployed Business Analyst will work in cross-functional teams to reimagine, innovate and scale solutions that drive growth and operating models within the firm.
Responsibilities
•Take ownership of complex, ambiguous business problems and rapidly translate them into testable solution hypotheses with measurable outcomes.
•Build structured business context covering terminology, entities, relationships, decision logic, data dependencies, controls and exceptions for use by subject matter experts, AI tools and engineering teams.
•Decompose business processes into explicit logic, controls and exception paths for implementation by technology teams.
•Create functional prototypes using AI-enabled development capabilities to discover requirements, challenge assumptions and validate future-state processes, data, policies and controls.
•Shape the target operating model, including ownership of data, governance, controls, roles and exception management.
•Partner continuously with business experts, product managers, engineers, architects, data specialists and control partners from discovery through implementation.
•Develop measurable project objectives, drive consensus, and communicate plans, progress and outcomes effectively to stakeholders and management across levels.
Requirements
•3–5 years of relevant work experience in transformation, product delivery, business architecture, technology-enabled change or a comparable discipline.
•Experience in business architecture and operating-model design, connecting solutions to business capabilities, roles, governance, policy ownership, controls and exception handling.
•Proficiency in prototype-led problem solving and rapidly converting ambiguous business problems into functional prototypes that stakeholders can see, test and challenge.
•Expertise using AI-enabled development environments to accelerate analysis, prototyping, requirements definition and testing, including critically evaluating generated outputs, maintaining traceability and understanding where human judgment remains essential.
•Experience with iterative delivery and hands-on ownership through cycles of analysis, experimentation and solution shaping.
•Experience in financial services or a similar industry.
•Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate objectives and influence outcomes.
Conditions
•Retirement investment and tools designed to help build a sound financial future.
•Access to education reimbursement.
•Comprehensive resources to support physical health and emotional well-being.
•Family support programs.
•Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
•Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

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