Job Specification: Business Analyst – Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA)Location: Edinburgh (2–3 days per week onsite) Duration: 6 months (ASAP start) Fully Loaded BMR: £350 per day IR35: Inside IR35OverviewWe are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join the Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA) BA Team, consisting of eight BAs. The successful candidate will support requirements gathering and process analysis for the BPA Buy-Out Stage as part of a new BPA administration platform implementation, as well as future scheme migrations.This role requires strong analytical capabilities, excellentmunication skills, and solid experience within pensions and UK regulatory reporting environments.Key ResponsibilitiesRequirements & Analysis
1. Lead and facilitate requirements gathering from business SMEs related to administration workflows and reporting needs.
2. Develop clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria, and process maps.
3. Conduct detailed requirements analysis and ensure traceability across project artefacts.
4. Apply strong SQL skills for data interrogation, validation, and analysis.
5. Develop and refine data models to support operational and reporting processes.
Delivery & Collaboration
6. Collaborate closely with the third‑party administration platform vendor, participating in refinement sessions to support progression into development.
7. Manage and maintain user stories, backlog items, and progress tracking using Azure DevOps.
8. Work with internal test teams to ensure knowledge transfer and alignment on acceptance criteria.
9. Support business readiness activities by producing “to‑be” procedures and operational documentation.
Regulatory & Reporting
10. Apply expertise in UK regulatory reporting, ensuring processes and requirements align to relevant standards and frameworks.
11. Support the design and validation of reporting outputs for regulatorypliance.
Required ExperienceEssential
12. Strong Business Analysis background with full lifecycle experience.
13. Expertise in: Requirements gatheringProcess mappingSQL (advanced level)Data modelling
14. Experience in Pensions, specifically Defined Benefit (DB) schemes.
15. Experience with UK Regulatory Reporting frameworks.
16. Excellentmunication and stakeholder management skills, especially when working across internal teams and third‑party vendors.
17. Experience using Azure DevOps for user story and backlog management.
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