Senior Calculations Analyst - Pensions Software
Remote or Hybrid Option Available
Senior Calculations Analyst (pensions) to join a fast-paced Agile delivery team in a leading UK Fintech company delivering cutting edge, highly configurable and automated solutions for some of the UK's largest financial services companies with a particular emphasis on pensions services.
With a large client-base, and a frequently changing regulatory framework, the successful candidate will need to have a keen eye for detail, an analytical mindset, and the ability to work across multiple projects.
Key Responsibilities
Understand, document and communicate complex calculations for illustrations, pensions administration and financial tools to be used by our clients
Work with our customers to understand their requirements, and help to translate them into formal software change documents
Work with Product Owner(s) and Project Manager(s) to formalise functional requirements using the tools and adhering to the standards for the BA team
To be able to create and maintain stochastic and deterministic models to help understand the impact of changes and to create test scenarios
Work with development and testing team(s) to help ensure functional changes meet business needs while utilising core product features
Work with stakeholders and Product Owners to shape future development projects
Produce a wide range of project documentation including process diagrams, user stories and functional specifications Essential skills
Knowledge of the Investments / Pensions / Savings industry and relevant calculations
Analysis experience in the Financial Services and software industries
Experience of eliciting and documenting customer requirements and suggesting the most suitable approach to reach a mutually agreed outcome using generic
product features where feasible
Excellent Client communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex calculations logic at a level appropriate to the audience
Ability to analyse complex numerical problems and to create practical solutions involving building calculation models using Microsoft Excel
Experience of assisting in test planning and test execution for technical calculation testing
Ability to organise workloads and manage priorities
Efficient and effective cross-discipline communication skills Desirable Skills
Degree educated
Able to concisely transfer client requirements to the development team
Ability to read C# or similar logic Location
Ideally Portsmouth with options for hybrid working and remote will be considered