Business Analyst

Essential Skills and Experience

• 7 to 10 years' experience as a Business Analyst, in a senior or lead capacity
• Strong functional BA fundamentals: requirements, process modelling, user stories and acceptance criteria, gap and impact analysis
• Pensions or long-term savings experience (Tier 1 essential; Tier 2 not required, but strong aptitude for absorbing domain complexity is expected)
• Experience in transformation or change programmes, ideally in regulated financial services
• Exposure to regulatory change delivery and its governance
• Confident stakeholder management, with experience working alongside PMs and operational SMEs
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a structured, evidence-based approach to problem solving Desirable
• Knowledge of Pensions
• Experience in an outsourced administration or BPO environment
• Background in operations analysis or as a pensions SME before moving into BA work
• Experience of operational restructuring, insourcing or integration
• BA certification (e.g. BCS/IIBA CBAP) or Agile/hybrid delivery experience