Job Title
Finance Business Analyst
Job Description
You will analyse and document business requirements, support the delivery of finance systems enhancements and platform implementations, and ensure solutions align with accounting, taxation, payroll, and operational finance needs. A key aspect of the role is understanding the financial and operational impacts of transactions and helping to establish robust processes and controls across the end-to-end lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Elicit, analyse, and document business requirements across finance, accounting, taxation, payroll, and operational finance processes.
- Work with Finance, BPA Operations, Actuarial, Risk, Technology, and wider business stakeholders to understand current-state processes and define future-state solutions.
- Produce high-quality business analysis artefacts, including process maps, requirements documentation, gap analyses, user stories, and business cases.
- Support the delivery of finance systems enhancements, platform implementations, and broader transformation initiatives, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, traceable, and aligned to business objectives.
- Analyse the impacts of annuity-related business changes on finance processes, controls, reporting, and operational workflows, and recommend improvements where necessary.
- Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather requirements, validate proposed solutions, and achieve alignment across business and technical teams.
- Collaborate with third-party vendors and internal delivery teams to ensure solutions meet agreed business, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Support accounting and finance reporting activities, including ledger impacts, reconciliations, financial controls, and management information processes.
- Assist in the analysis and documentation of taxation and payroll requirements, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and internal policies.
- Contribute to test planning, test execution, defect management, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring that business outcomes are achieved and documented.
- Track requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle and support business readiness, training, implementation, and post-go-live activities.
- Provide clear, proactive communication to stakeholders on progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions required to move work forward.
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced change environment, managing multiple concurrent priorities and stakeholder expectations.
Essential Skills
- Proven experience working as a Business Analyst within Financial Services, Insurance, Pensions, or Life & Pensions environments.
- Strong understanding of finance and accounting processes, including financial reporting, reconciliations, financial controls, and operational finance activities.
- Demonstrated ability to gather, analyse, and document business requirements and translate them into actionable deliverables.
- Experience producing process maps, detailed requirements documentation, gap analyses, and supporting solution design activities.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working across business, finance, technology, and third-party supplier teams.
- Experience supporting testing activities, including User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, and business readiness.
- Ability to work comfortably within fast-paced change environments with multiple concurrent priorities and stakeholders.
- Practical experience in business analysis within finance, tax, and payroll contexts.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Experience working within annuities, pensions, or Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA) environments.
- Exposure to taxation and payroll-related processes and associated compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of finance systems and experience with finance transformation, platform implementations, or systems change projects.
- Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements in life and pensions or related financial services sectors.
- No specific formal qualification requirements are listed, making relevant experience and skills the primary focus.
Why Work Here?
You will join a leading mutual life and pensions organisation that offers exposure to complex, high-impact finance and BPA transformation initiatives. The environment supports professional growth through collaboration with expert stakeholders across finance, actuarial, risk, technology, and operations. You will gain valuable experience in end-to-end change delivery, regulatory reporting, and finance systems transformation within a well-established UK financial services business.
Work Environment
The role operates within a structured finance change and BPA operations environment in the UK life and pensions sector. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including finance, actuarial, risk, technology, operations, and third-party vendors, using standard business analysis tools and methodologies to deliver systems and process change. The setting is fast-paced and change-focused, with multiple concurrent projects and a strong emphasis on governance, controls, and regulatory compliance. Work patterns are typical of a professional office environment, with collaboration across both business and technology teams.
Location
Macclesfield, UK
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