Senior Business Analyst – Pensions Change Programme

Standard Life plc; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Electric vehicle scheme

38 days holiday incl. Bank Holidays

Life assurance 12x salary

Career breaks

Income protection

Volunteering days

Job summary

Standard Life plc in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Business Analyst to join the Pensions & Savings Change Hub on Project Skye. You will shape requirements, manage scope and ensure successful delivery across programmes with third‑party suppliers.

In this high‑profile transformation, you will elicit and analyse requirements, maintain traceability and support solution development, testing and change readiness to deliver lasting business value.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience delivering business analysis within large-scale integration, migration or business transformation programmes.
• Knowledge across Standard Life products, processes, and systems.
• Experience of regulatory change and working with third parties would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Clarify, challenge and shape business needs to maximise business value and ensure requirements support agreed integration outcomes.
• Capture, analyse and document business requirements in a clear and structured manner, ensuring a shared understanding across stakeholders and third-party suppliers.
• Define and manage end-to-end scope for project workstreams, supporting governance and control of changes.
• Maintain traceability of requirements from definition to solution deployment and handover to BAU.
• Support solution development activities by engaging stakeholders and shaping validated solutions.
• Conduct business impact assessments to understand effects of change across processes and systems.
• Coordinate collaboration across business, technology and third-party teams to align with objectives and design principles.
• Analyse change requests, risks, issues and dependencies with clear recommendations.
• Support testing and UAT to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Drive business readiness, implementation planning and post-implementation support to embed changes.
• Produce high-quality analysis artefacts and apply appropriate techniques.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Diploma in Business Analysis or equivalent

Job description

Standard Life plc in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Business Analyst to join the Pensions & Savings Change Hub on Project Skye. You will shape requirements, manage scope and ensure successful delivery across programmes with third‑party suppliers.

In this high‑profile transformation, you will elicit and analyse requirements, maintain traceability and support solution development, testing and change readiness to deliver lasting business value.