Business Analyst - AI projects

The Opportunity

We are partnering with a growing investment management business to appoint a Business Analyst - AI Projects into a newly created permanent role.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to sit at the intersection of business analysis, AI and change. The business is investing in AI and is looking for a commercially minded individual who can help identify opportunities, shape solutions and drive the delivery of practical AI initiatives across a range of teams.

This is not a pure engineering or data science role. Instead, the focus is on understanding business problems, gathering requirements, designing practical AI-enabled solutions, and creating proofs of concept, tools or lightweight AI agents that improve efficiency, decision-making and workflow across the organisation.

The successful candidate will report into IT but work across multiple business units, acting as a bridge between stakeholders, technology and delivery. It is a role for someone who is comfortable operating across a broad business, can engage credibly with senior stakeholders, and is excited by the opportunity to help embed AI in a pragmatic and commercially valuable way.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities where AI can improve processes, solve operational challenges, increase efficiency or enhance decision-making (ChatGPT, CoPilot, Claude etc).
• Gather, document and refine business requirements for AI-related initiatives across a variety of functions.
• Translate business challenges into practical AI use cases, proofs of concept and lightweight tools or agents.
• Assess current workflows and recommend AI-enabled improvements that are pragmatic, scalable and aligned to business priorities.
• Work closely with internal technology teams and external partners where required to support implementation and delivery.
• Help shape and prioritise an internal pipeline of AI initiatives across multiple business units.
• Act as a trusted advisor on how AI tools and capabilities can be applied to real business problems.
• Support the rollout, adoption and embedding of AI solutions, ensuring users are engaged and comfortable with new ways of working.
• Promote effective use of existing AI tools and platforms already available across the business.
• Balance innovation with practicality, helping the business move quickly while maintaining sensible oversight and control.
• Desirable Experience: Experience in investment management, financial services, wealth management or a similarly professional, commercially focused environment.
• Exposure to working in a lean, fast-moving or growth-oriented business.
• Experience working alongside IT teams and third-party technology providers.
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