Stop press: This years' BA of the Year finalists have now been announced. This year, the competition was extremely stiff, with entries from a large field of highly-experienced and high-achieving business analysts. Assessing the applications has been very challenging and narrowing the field to only five finalists has proved impossible. As a result, this year we have eight finalists. They are in alphabetical order.

• Ragu Avinasilingam (Lloyds Banking Group)

• Adam Blair (National Grid)

• Judith Crooks (Aviva)

• Elizabeth Downing (Diligenta)

• Simon Hancock (Nationwide Building Society)

• Nicola Percy (Deloitte)

• Ian Richards (Capita Transformation)

• Rituraj Saikia (Wipro)

Find out more about the finalists here>

Finalist interviews are booked for 6^th September with the winner to be announced at the European BA Conference on September 20^th.

Watch this space for more news.