Top Business Analyst Jobs in Edinburgh

Partners with People & Culture stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, define user stories and acceptance criteria, map processes, and support Agile solution delivery. Acts as the liaison between business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams while identifying process improvements, dependencies, risks, and impacts across HR technology solutions, particularly SAP SuccessFactors.

Manage and contribute to IT and business-change projects across the University of Edinburgh. Apply project management and business analysis skills to improve business efficiency, enhance student experience, maintain IT compliance, and enable digital transformation. Work within Project Services alongside project and programme delivery professionals, using a hybrid campus-based arrangement.

The Business Analyst gathers and prioritizes requirements, translates business needs into functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and workflows, and supports solution design, testing, and Agile delivery. The role collaborates with stakeholders, product managers, developers, architects, testers, and operations teams; manages traceability, governance, dependencies, and change approvals; identifies process improvements and automation opportunities; and helps standardize processes across global teams.

Business Analyst gathers and analyzes requirements for technology-enabled change, facilitates stakeholder workshops, models current and future processes, and creates user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability artifacts. The role supports backlog refinement, prioritization, design and test reviews, data and business rule analysis, UAT, training, transition, and business change activities across the delivery lifecycle.

The Business Analyst will elicit and analyze stakeholder needs, model current and future processes, define requirements, create user stories and acceptance criteria, and maintain traceability throughout delivery. Responsibilities include facilitating workshops, supporting backlog refinement and prioritization, analyzing data and business rules, assisting design and testing reviews, and supporting UAT, training, transition, and business change activities.

Conduct As-Is and To-Be process analysis, create process maps and business requirements, develop user stories, and maintain requirements traceability. Elicit, document, validate, and manage requirements throughout project lifecycles while ensuring audit and compliance standards. Collaborate with operational, business, and technology stakeholders, manage changes, communicate risks and progress, and provide requirements consultancy across Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid initiatives.

Translate sales and go-to-market requirements into developer-ready user stories, workflows, mockups, and prototypes in Jira. Collaborate with sales engineering, product, and GTM teams to iterate rapidly on production-grade demos. Validate complex IAM features through manual testing across devices and browsers, including mobile push and biometric verification. Maintain demo readiness, coordinate developer and stakeholder feedback, use approved AI tools responsibly, and improve sales engineering processes.

The Senior Business Analyst collects, analyzes, and presents data to support business decision-making, reporting, and strategic planning within the organization.

Lead requirements gathering, perform market research, produce BRDs/FRDs/use cases, support development and testing (UAT), train users, mentor others, and drive digital banking product implementations across multiple projects.

Deliver end-to-end Digital Channels solutions by analyzing requirements, specifying customizations, coordinating project teams, supporting development and testing, and transferring operational knowledge to run banking solutions.

Provide subject-matter expertise and day-to-day support for enterprise mobile applications used by field teams. Gather requirements, configure and test enhancements, troubleshoot complex issues, support releases and integrations, promote user adoption, train end users, and ensure governance, security and continuous improvement of mobile solutions.

Analyze business requirements and processes for securities trading applications, bridge business and development teams, support solution design, testing, implementation, and releases. Lead client workshops, explain Avaloq capabilities, recommend business and IT solutions, manage client relationships, and prepare project reports and documentation. The role requires financial services business analysis experience, technical application exposure, Agile experience, strong communication, and analytical skills.

Lead end-to-end enterprise CRM and digital transformation programs across Salesforce, ServiceNow, and CPQ. Drive capability modeling, operating model design, solution and requirement engineering, legacy-to-cloud migration, API/microservices integration, Agile delivery as Product Owner, stakeholder engagement, change management, UAT, and governance to optimize business outcomes.

Senior Business Analyst for energy transmission delivering Dynamic Line Rating, Digital Twin and Network Design capabilities. Lead discovery, translate complex engineering needs into epics and user stories, drive data-driven decisions, map and improve processes, support governance, and engage cross-functional stakeholders to ensure delivery of measurable business outcomes.

Support the Head of Client Delivery Transformation to scope and drive transformation programmes: map current processes, evaluate technology, gather cross-functional requirements, plan deployments, and redesign payment and reconciliation journeys to reduce manual work and enable automation.

Lead requirements gathering and stakeholder engagement for a global digital platform. Produce BRDs/FRSs, user stories, conduct gap and data analysis, support UAT and change management, and collaborate with PMs, developers, UX, and QA to ensure successful delivery.

Senior Business Analyst for Dotmatics Luma team translating product strategy into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items within Agile/Scrum. Collaborates with Product, Engineering, QA, UX, and scientists; performs requirements elicitation, process analysis, UAT, and supports product discovery, analytics-driven improvements, and cross-team delivery for a multi-tenant scientific SaaS platform.

The ERP Business Analyst will analyze and improve business processes in alignment with ERP systems, support upgrades, and enhance user adoption.

Leads business analysis for technology-enabled transformation, translating strategic outcomes and stakeholder needs into prioritized, testable requirements. Responsibilities include capability mapping, process and operating model design, requirements traceability, user stories, acceptance criteria, process re-engineering, data modeling, migration analysis, UAT support, change impact assessment, and benefits mapping. The role also facilitates workshops, mentors analysts, and establishes analysis standards while collaborating across business, architecture, engineering, and testing teams.

Lead payroll governance, process and system strategy for global payroll transformation. Capture and migrate local processes, run design sessions, collaborate with vendors and IT, support implementations, maintain KPIs, training, audits, and continuous improvement across multiple countries.

Develops and supports Power BI dashboards, SSRS reports, data models, KPIs, and executive reporting. Builds and optimizes SQL queries, validates data, troubleshoots reporting issues, manages reporting lifecycles, and automates reporting workflows. Partners with business stakeholders to gather requirements, deliver insights, maintain documentation, support data governance, and improve reporting platforms and data quality.

Lead end-to-end business analysis for public sector clients: run workshops, produce BRS documents, map processes, perform root-cause analysis, manage stakeholders, review functional specs, and support UAT to deliver digital/application modernisation projects.

Supports cross-functional teams by handling ad hoc data requests, manipulating and organizing data, analyzing player behavior, product performance, campaigns, promotions, and operations. Evaluates ROI, investigates trends, creates reports and lightweight dashboards, and translates stakeholder questions into practical insights. The role requires SQL, spreadsheet skills, clear communication, attention to detail, adaptability, and effective use of AI-assisted analytical tools.

Support joiner, mover, and leaver processes; administer role-based access controls; handle internal system and tool support tickets; maintain accurate documentation and standard operating procedures; gather stakeholder requirements; evaluate tools; and identify process improvements that enhance security, efficiency, and user experience.

Lead business analysis during Discovery by mapping current processes, facilitating stakeholder workshops, eliciting and prioritising requirements, assessing operational and financial impacts, and producing high-quality BA artefacts. Support technical integration understanding, collaborate with research and design teams, document constraints and dependencies, contribute to discovery reporting, and mentor junior analysts in a complex UK public sector environment.