Senior Business Development Analyst

As Senior Business Development Analyst, you turn opportunities in our portfolio into defendable business cases. You size markets, model revenue and costs, and assess regulatory and operational implications to inform go/no-go decisions. You manage approved initiatives as a project leader, coordinating across functions to deliver on plan. You join a growth‑oriented, collaborative environment that values clear, data-driven recommendations. This role offers visibility to senior leadership and meaningful impact on strategic growth.

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Flexible working hours
• Fixed 13th-month salary
• Pension scheme
• Travel expense reimbursement
• Annual training budget of 2000

• Maintain the Business Development portfolio with size, cost estimates, owners and next decision dates for all live opportunities
• Qualify new opportunities against agreed criteria and document outcomes, including parked or dropped cases
• Source opportunities from market monitoring, partner conversations, internal teams and branches, tracking market trends and competitors
• Build end-to-end business cases (market sizing, revenue/cost models, investments, regulatory/operational implications, risks, timelines)
• Own assumptions, source them, defend and stress-test them under challenge
• Coordinate with Product, Finance, Legal & Compliance, Risk, Client Service, CDD/TM, ICT and Marketing to obtain documented positions early
• Present recommendations including go/no-go options to BD Manager and Management Team
• Act as project manager for approved initiatives: roadmap, milestones, owners, dependencies; maintain single plan; remove blockers and escalate
• Maintain playbooks and BD standards; expand network across brokerage/fintech; apply AI/automation to improve quality or speed

• 8 or more years of experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with a commercial or strategic goal in financial services, brokerage or fintech
• Proven experience building business/investment cases: market sizing, revenue and cost modelling, assumptions, options, and recommendations
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills; ability to build a case and challenge it
• Experience working with Legal and Compliance on product launches, market entries or client propositions in a regulated environment
• Experience coordinating external partners, vendors or advisors; comfortable with C-level stakeholders
• Clear and persuasive written and verbal English communication
• Entrepreneurial, hands-on, intellectually honest: able to admit unknowns and secure cooperation without formal authority
• A university degree in Business, Finance, Economics or a related field

• Strong analytical mindset
• Strategic thinking
• Effective cross-functional communication
• Financial modelling
• Market sizing
• Regulatory/compliance awareness