Senior Business Analyst – Wealth Management & Pensions
Location: Greater London, UK
Work arrangement: Hybrid – 2 days flexible working
About the role
A Senior Business Analyst is required to support software development projects within the financial services and wealth management sector.
The role involves working with internal teams and external clients to gather and document business requirements, develop user stories and business specifications, and support the delivery of software solutions across UI, API and platform development.
Working closely with Product Owners and cross-functional Scrum teams, the successful candidate will help translate business objectives into technical solutions throughout the full software development lifecycle.
Key responsibilities
- Engage with clients to identify, analyse and document business requirements and objectives.
- Produce business requirements, epics, user stories, use cases and functional specifications.
- Support UI and API design requirements and document business processes.
- Work closely with developers, testers, implementation and product teams throughout the SDLC.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring solutions meet agreed acceptance criteria.
- Assist with release planning, MVP delivery and prioritisation.
- Prepare business design documents, including non-functional requirements.
- Support end-user training, product demonstrations and implementation activities.
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes and project delivery methods.
Requirements
- Degree-level qualifications or at least 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst within IT or financial services.
- Strong knowledge of UK pensions, superannuation, savings or investment management systems.
- Experience working across the software development lifecycle.
- Practical experience in Agile and Waterfall environments.
- Proficiency in Jira and Confluence.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear functional requirements and user stories.
- SQL and XML.
- UI/UX design and API specifications.
- Data modelling and workflow systems.
- Software testing and user training.
- Financial services regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Hybrid working arrangement with two flexible working days.
- Private health insurance, including dental and optical cover.
- Non-contributory pension scheme.
- Salary sacrifice options for car, cycle-to-work and additional pension contributions.
- Additional annual day off.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Retail discounts and LinkedIn Learning access.
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