# Forward Deployed Business Analyst

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: London, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Forward Deployed Business Analyst will work in cross-functional teams to reimagine, innovate and scale solutions that drive growth and operating models within BlackRock.

This role combines business analysis, product discovery, business architecture and hands-on prototyping to turn ambiguous problems into tangible solutions that business users and engineers can test and refine together.

**Responsibilities:**

- Take ownership of complex 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.

- Decompose business processes into explicit logic, controls and exception paths for implementation by technology teams.

- Create functional prototypes using AI-enabled development capabilities.

- 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.

**Experience:**

- 3–5 years of relevant work experience in transformation, product delivery, business architecture or a comparable discipline.

- Experience in business architecture and operating-model design.

- Proficiency in prototype-led problem solving.

- Expertise using AI-enabled development environments.

- Experience with iterative delivery and hands-on ownership.

- Experience in financial services or a similar industry.

- Excellent communication skills.

**Benefits:** BlackRock offers a wide range of employee benefits, including retirement investment, education reimbursement, comprehensive resources to support physical health and emotional well-being, family support programs, and Flexible Time Off (FTO).

**Hybrid Work Model:** BlackRock's hybrid work model requires employees to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

## Skills

### Required
- business analysis
- product discovery
- business architecture
- AI-enabled development
- prototyping
- project management

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