Business Analyst

SALARY:  From £48,000 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires 20% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

Full time, Permanent Contract

CLOSING DATE: 16/09/25 - We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.

We’re looking for an experienced Business Analyst with the analysis skills to understand people, processes and technical requirements and shape technology solutions.

This fast paced role will be instrumental in delivering better customer outcomes and reacting quickly to an ever-changing environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll work closely with Product Owners to organise and refine feature backlogs
• Work with the Technical Architects to understand and support detailed design and implementation
•  Working with Stakeholders at all levels to understand requirements, dependencies and priorities
• You’ll disseminate information in design documents and backlog tickets, to drive out functional requirements specifications for delivery to the development team
• Supporting the development team in story creation, refinement and story-pointing
• Facilitating workshops to prioritise and schedule story delivery
• You’ll suggest improvements for, and outline the benefits of improvements in production processes and provide process flow documentation.

Essential experience & skills

• You’ll have plenty of experience as a BA within high-performing Agile development teams
•  You’re build strong working relationships when working as part of a team to drive out solutions
• A sound understanding of the Financial and Automotive industries will be hugely beneficial
• Able to manage moving deadlines and changing priorities, and maintain a flexible mindset when managing conflicting priorities across the business
• You have experience of delivering IT system requirements specifications and/or Agile story creation
• An understanding of waterfall, iterative, digital and Agile development methodologies
• Kanban framework experience and you have worked with database driven systems
• You have supported complex change projects and produced feasibility studies

What’s in it for you?

Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)

Pension:  Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.

Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance.

OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.

Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).

Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover),  access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Why join VWFS UK?

Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.