Senior Business Analyst - Life and Pensions

Job Description

Senior Business Analyst - Life and Pensions

Locations: Essex/London

Get To Know Us:

Our EMEA Change Delivery organisation is growing in line with business demand and is at the heart of SS&C client delivery & organisational transformation. We are currently recruiting within our EMEA Enterprise Analysis Practice for a Senior Business Analyst to work & lead on projects within our Life & Pensions Change Portfolio.

Our initiatives range from new client onboarding, corporate transformation, regulatory change, existing client change, and operational excellence, always with a focus on ensuring quality delivery & client delight. We are looking for a dynamic individual who is a self-starter; expert communicator & facilitator of discovery workshops; well experienced in all realms of Business Analysis tools & techniques; and is an expert within the L&P sector. This role provides the right person with a real opportunity to help shape the future of change within the organization.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

The Opportunity

We are looking for a high-performing Senior Business Analyst to join our fast-paced transformation team, with a specific focus on Life & Pensions projects. This role offers the opportunity to shape high-impact change initiatives, influence product and service evolution, and ensure we deliver outcomes that meet both regulatory and client expectations.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Lead end-to-end business analysis for assigned Life & Pensions initiatives, taking ownership of requirements quality, traceability and analysis deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead the discovery and due diligence phases of new initiatives, working with internal and external stakeholders to define scope and business outcomes.
• Elicit, document, and validate detailed requirements and user stories, ensuring traceability to business objectives.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder meetings, clearly articulating business needs and solution approaches.
• Act as a trusted interface between clients, business operations, product teams, architects, technology and delivery leads, proactively managing cross-functional requirements and dependencies.
• Identify operational, customer, and regulatory impacts, and support readiness activities to ensure smooth implementation.
• Produce high-quality deliverables (e.g., process maps, current/future state models, use cases) aligned to project timelines and program governance.
• (For Senior BAs) Mentor junior team members and contribute to the evolution of the BA Practice through knowledge sharing and support.

What You Will Bring:

• Demonstrable experience as a Senior Business Analyst, independently leading analysis workstreams within complex change, client delivery or transformation programmes.
• Strong practical knowledge of Life & Pensions policy administration and servicing, including product rules, policy lifecycle events, operational processes and customer impacts.
• Experience across these areas within L&P is beneficial; Term Insurance, WOL Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Income Protection Insurance, Group Life Insurance, Endowments, On Shore Investment Bonds, Off Shore Investments Bonds.
• Proficiency in BA methodologies across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work across business, technical, and client-facing environments.
• Confident facilitator and communicator—able to lead workshops, document clear outputs, and influence decision-making.
• Self-starter with strong organisational skills, able to manage priorities in fast-paced, change-heavy environments.
• Passion for continuous improvement, quality outcomes, and business value.
• Comfortable adapting to evolving business needs and managing ambiguity.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.