Job Description

Business Operations Analyst – Elevate Programme for early careers talent (18 months)
Location: Belfast, 3 days/week onsite
Start Date: January 2026
Contract: Fixed term, with strong potential for permanent conversion at 12-18m

The Opportunity

Join the Elevate Programme and launch your career in business operations within a major professional services environment. Over 18 months, you will receive structured training, mentoring and hands-on experience across multiple operational streams. You will work alongside experienced professionals, take on meaningful responsibility, and build skills that enable progression into senior, specialist or operational leadership roles.

Your Role

As a Business Operations Analyst, you will support:

• Client Onboarding & Risk Management: Performing due diligence, Know Your Customer (KYC) checks, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) research to identify risks for clients
• Process Improvement: Analysing and redesigning business processes to improve productivity, identifying automation opportunities, and implementing best practices.
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Collecting, analysing, and interpreting operational data to identify trends, create dashboards, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Collaboration: Working with internal and external teams, such as client engagement teams and other departments, to ensure goal alignment and support strategic planning.
• Contract Support: Assisting in the creation of initial drafts for client engagement contracts.
  

What We're Looking For

We’re open to recent graduates, early-career candidates or professionals looking for a new challenge. You should bring:

• Strong attention to detail and disciplined approach to process
• Clear, confident written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical mindset; ability to investigate root causes and propose solutions
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Ability to learn quickly, accept feedback, adapt to change
• Willingness to work in a hybrid model, with 3 days onsite in Belfast city centre, and travel occasionally if required
  

Programme Benefits & Progression

• Full salary while you complete structured training in operations, stakeholder management, process improvement
• Mentoring, coaching and regular performance reviews every six months
• Opportunity for conversion into a permanent role from 12 months
• 
  Clear progression options into senior operational roles, specialist streams (compliance, risk, transformation)
  

Why Join?

• Be part of a high-growth team that values development and long-term career goals
• Gain early responsibility and direct exposure to operational excellence in a professional services context
• Build a solid foundation for a career in business operations

Benefits:

• Alongside your starting salary, there will be a performance review every 6 months and potential salary uplift at 12 months
• Ongoing training and development support through one-to-one coaching and access to our award-winning trainers
• Health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
  
  

Please submit your CV and answer a few screening questions via our careers portal. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of applying, your application will not be progressing further.

Vantage Point Global is a fully committed Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.