Lead Business Analyst

abrdn plc; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading wealth management company in Edinburgh is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to contribute to the change lifecycle and support the delivery of effective solutions. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in business analysis and team leadership, ideally with knowledge of financial services. The role offers excellent benefits including 40 days' annual leave and flexible working options.

Benefits

40 days' annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Employee discount portal

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of working on change in a Business Analysis role.
• In-depth understanding of development lifecycles and associated disciplines.
• Exposure to leading a team of BAs within a project.

Responsibilities

• Contribute extensive business and systems knowledge to support solutions.
• Act as a point of reference within the business analysis practice.
• Provide management and guidance for less senior team members.

Skills

Business Analysis

Team Leadership

Understanding of development lifecycles

Job description

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

This role sits within our Adviser sector and our business strategy is to always be the advisers' first choice, delivering solutions that makes advice easy.

About the Role

Lead Business Analysts play a key role throughout the change lifecycle, contributing to the initial shaping of work at the "idea" stage, helping colleagues and key external 3rd party partners understand and identify their requirements, contributing to designing solutions and supporting delivery, test and implementation of those solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Use your broad skill sets within this framework to contribute your extensive business and systems knowledge to support the end to end solution.
• Form part of the Leadership Team within the wider business analysis practice acting as a point of reference, knowledge, experience.
• Colleague management and guidance responsibility for less senior members of the team.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Demonstratable experience of working on change in a Business Analysis role.
• In depth understanding of development lifecycles and associated disciplines, particularly the role of Business Analysis.
• Exposure to leading a team of BA's within a project.
• Ideally, possess an awareness of financial services products in the investment and savings market.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements - for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability - please let us know and we'll be happy to help.

We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.