Forward Deployed Business Analyst

About the role

The BlackRock Transformation Office (BTO) is looking for a Forward Deployed Business Analyst in London. This is not a traditional requirement-gathering role: it combines business analysis, product discovery, business architecture and hands-on prototyping to turn ambiguous problems into solutions that business users and engineers can test and refine together.

Key responsibilities

• Translate complex, ambiguous business problems into testable solution hypotheses with measurable outcomes.
• Build structured business context covering terminology, entities, relationships, decision logic, data dependencies, controls and exceptions.
• Decompose business processes into explicit logic, controls and exception paths for technology teams.
• Create functional prototypes using AI-enabled development to validate future-state processes, data, policies and controls.
• Shape the target operating model, including ownership of data, governance, controls, roles and exception management.
• Partner with business experts, product managers, engineers, architects and control partners from discovery through implementation.
• Develop measurable project objectives, drive consensus and communicate plans, progress and outcomes to stakeholders and management.

Required profile

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in transformation, product delivery, business architecture, technology-enabled change or a comparable discipline.
• Experience in business architecture and operating-model design, linking solutions to business capabilities, roles, governance, policy ownership, controls and exception handling.
• Experience in financial services or a similar industry.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate objectives and influence outcomes.

Required skills

• Prototype-led problem solving and rapid conversion of ambiguous problems into functional prototypes.
• Use of AI-enabled development environments to accelerate analysis, prototyping, requirements definition and testing, including critical evaluation of generated outputs and maintenance of traceability.
• Iterative delivery and hands-on ownership through cycles of analysis, experimentation and solution shaping.

What we offer

• Retirement investment and tools, education reimbursement, health and well-being resources, family support programs and Flexible Time Off.
• A hybrid model requiring at least 4 days in the office per week, with 1 day of remote work allowed; some business groups may need more time in the office.