Business Analyst - Bulk Purchase Annuities BPA

Job Specification:
Business Analyst - Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA)

Location:

Edinburgh (2-3 days per week onsite) Duration: 6 months (ASAP start) Fully Loaded BMR: £350 per day IR35:
Inside IR35

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join the Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA) BA Team, consisting of eight BAs. The successful candidate will support requirements gathering and process analysis for the BPA Buy-Out Stage as part of a new BPA administration platform implementation, as well as future scheme migrations.

This role requires strong analytical capabilities, excellent communication skills, and solid experience within pensions and UK regulatory reporting environments.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements & Analysis

• Lead and facilitate requirements gathering from business SMEs related to administration workflows and reporting needs.
• Develop clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps.
• Conduct detailed requirements analysis and ensure traceability across project artefacts.
• Apply strong SQL skills for data interrogation, validation, and analysis.
• Develop and refine data models to support operational and reporting processes.

Delivery & Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with the third-party administration platform vendor, participating in refinement sessions to support progression into development.
• Manage and maintain user stories, backlog items, and progress tracking using Azure Dev Ops.
• Work with internal test teams to ensure knowledge transfer and alignment on acceptance criteria.
• Support business readiness activities by producing "to-be" procedures and operational documentation.

Regulatory & Reporting

• Apply expertise in UK regulatory reporting, ensuring processes and requirements align to relevant standards and frameworks.
• Support the design and validation of reporting outputs for regulatory compliance.

Required Experience

• Strong Business Analysis background with full lifecycle experience.
• Expertise in:
• Requirements gathering
• Process mapping
• SQL (advanced level)
• Data modelling
• Experience in Pensions, specifically Defined Benefit (DB) schemes.
• Experience with UK Regulatory Reporting frameworks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, especially when working across internal teams and third-party vendors.
• Experience using Azure Dev Ops for user story and backlog management.

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