Business Analyst (Life and Pensions)

SS&C Technologies; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking a Business Analyst specializing in Life & Pensions. This role involves leading analysis activities, facilitating workshops, and ensuring project alignment with business objectives. Ideal candidates have strong domain knowledge and experience in complex transformation programmes. A hybrid work model is offered along with professional development opportunities and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive holiday scheme

Benefits for staff wellbeing

Diversity & Inclusion commitment

Hands-On Training

Qualifications

• Experience in a Business Analyst role within complex transformation programmes.
• Strong Life & Pensions domain knowledge is essential.
• Proficiency in BA methodologies across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead all analysis activities for assigned initiatives.
• Elicit, document, and validate detailed requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder meetings.

Skills

Business Analyst role experience

Life & Pensions domain knowledge

Stakeholder engagement skills

Agile methodologies

Facilitation skills

Organisational skills

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Business Analyst (Life and Pensions)

Locations: Central London

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a high-performing 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 all analysis activities for assigned initiatives across the project lifecycle, with an emphasis on Life & Pensions transformation.
• Support 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 the key liaison between business stakeholders, product teams, architects, and delivery leads.
• 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 programme 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:

• Experience in a Business Analyst role, ideally within complex transformation programmes.
• Strong Life & Pensions domain knowledge is essential.
• If you have experience across these areas within L&P, this would be 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 (e.g. SAFe).
• 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.

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

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.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.