Senior Functional Business Analyst (Pensions)
Licensed sponsor London Full-time Posted 1 hour ago
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
Profile Tiers (for sourcing)
- Tier 1 – Pensions-experienced BA: Proven pensions experience combined with strong BA fundamentals. Able to work through pensions complexity and act in an SME or operations analyst capacity where needed.
- Tier 2 – Strong BA without pensions experience: Senior-level BA with excellent fundamentals and a track record in regulated financial services transformation. No pensions background required, but able to learn quickly and work through domain complexity with support.
