Overview
Private Markets Business Analyst Jobs in London Area, United Kingdom at Corsa Consulting
Title: Private Markets Business Analyst
Company: Corsa Consulting
Location: London Area, United Kingdom
Role summary
CORSA is looking to connect with experienced Private Markets Business Analysts for a major investment platform transformation programme.
This role requires a specialist BA who can hit the ground running, understand the private markets investment lifecycle, engage confidently with senior stakeholders, and produce high-quality business analysis artefacts with minimal handholding.
This is not a generic BA or project management role. The successful candidate must have direct experience working across private markets, investment platforms, operating model design, business requirements, process mapping, data, reporting and vendor/system selection.
The role will work across the investment value chain: Front Office, Investment Operations, Finance, Data, Reporting and Technology.
What success looks like
Success means being able to step into a complex private markets transformation programme and quickly add value by producing clear, structured and decision-ready outputs.
The successful candidate will:
- Understand private markets terminology, processes and operating models from day one.
- Elicit and document detailed business requirements without needing basic domain training.
- Map current-state and target-state processes across the private markets investment lifecycle.
- Identify gaps across process, systems, data, reporting, controls and operating model.
- Produce high-quality artefacts that can stand up to senior stakeholder review.
- Support vendor evaluation and system selection with clear functional analysis.
- Bring structure, clarity and pace to ambiguous business problems.
Responsibilities
- Lead business analysis across private markets investment platform transformation.
- Elicit, define and document detailed functional and non-functional business requirements.
- Analyse current-state processes, systems, data flows, controls and pain points.
- Define target-state processes and contribute to target operating model design.
- Produce clear process maps, requirements documents, gap analysis, decision papers and vendor evaluation materials.
- Work directly with stakeholders across Front Office, Investment Operations, Finance, Data, Reporting and Technology.
- Translate complex business problems into structured, actionable requirements and delivery artefacts.
- Support RFP, vendor selection and platform evaluation activity, including requirements scoring, demo assessment and response analysis.
- Analyse private markets data and reporting needs, including portfolio monitoring, valuations, performance metrics and management information.
- Support traceability from business requirements through to solution design, testing, operational readiness and implementation.
- Challenge assumptions, identify risks and provide practical recommendations.
Required qualifications and experience
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst in private markets, alternative investments or investment management.
- Direct experience with private equity, private debt, venture capital, infrastructure, funds or fund-of-funds.
- Strong understanding of private markets lifecycle processes, including commitments, capital calls, drawdowns, distributions, valuations, NAV, IRR, portfolio monitoring and reporting.
- Experience working on investment platform, portfolio management system, IMS, IBOR, ABOR, data or reporting transformation.
- Experience producing high-quality BA artefacts, including:
- Business requirements
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- Process maps
- Data flow analysis
- Gap analysis
- TOM inputs
- Vendor evaluation materials
- Decision papers
- Experience working across Front Office, Investment Operations, Finance, Data, Reporting and Technology.
- Experience supporting system selection, RFPs, vendor evaluation or platform implementation.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to work with senior business users, SMEs, vendors and delivery teams.
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and turn unclear business problems into structured outputs.
- Strong documentation, analytical and communication skills.
Must-have tools
- Microsoft Visio or equivalent process mapping tool.
- Jira or equivalent delivery / requirements tracking tool.
- Confluence, SharePoint or equivalent documentation platform.
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
Education and BA qualifications
- Strong academic background expected.
- Business analysis qualification strongly preferred, such as:
- BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis
- IIBA CBAP
- IIBA CCBA
