TEKsystems
Finance Business Analyst
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Finance Business Analyst
Finance Business Analyst
About the Role
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 such as:
- Process maps
- Requirements documentation
- Gap analyses
- User stories
- Business cases
- Support the delivery of finance systems enhancements, platform implementations, and broader transformation initiatives, ensuring:
- Requirements are clearly understood
- Requirements are traceable
- Requirements are aligned to business objectives
- Analyse the impacts of annuity-related business changes on:
- Finance processes
- Controls
- Reporting
- Operational workflows
- Recommend proposed improvements
- Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to:
- Gather requirements
- Validate proposed solutions
- Achieve stakeholder alignment across business and technical teams
- Collaborate with third-party vendors and internal delivery teams to ensure solutions meet:
- Business requirements
- Regulatory requirements
- Operational requirements
- Support accounting and finance reporting activities, including:
- Ledger impacts
- Reconciliations
- Financial controls
- Management information processes
- Assist in the analysis and documentation of taxation and payroll requirements, ensuring compliance with:
- Relevant legislation
- Internal policies
- Contribute to test planning, test execution, defect management, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT):
- Ensure business outcomes are achieved and documented
- Track requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle and support:
- Business readiness
- Training
- Implementation
- Post-go-live activities
- Provide clear, proactive communication to stakeholders on the following topics:
- Progress
- Risks
- Issues
- Dependencies
- Decisions required
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced, change-focused environment, managing:
- Multiple concurrent priorities
- Stakeholder expectations
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Essential Skills
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst within:
- Financial Services
- Insurance
- Pensions
- Life & Pensions environments
- Strong understanding of:
- Finance and accounting processes
- Financial reporting
- Reconciliations
- Financial controls
- Operational finance activities
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Gather, analyse, and document business requirements
- Translate requirements into actionable deliverables
- Experience producing:
- Process maps
- Detailed requirements documentation
- Gap analyses
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experiences of working with:
- Business teams
- Finance teams
- Technology teams
- Third-party supplier teams
- Experience in supporting testing activities, including:
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Defect management
- Business readiness
- Ability to work comfortably within:
- Fast-paced change environments
- Multiple concurrent activities and stakeholders
- Practical experience in:
- Business analysis within finance, tax, and payroll environments
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Direct experience working within:
- Annuities
- Pensions
- Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA) environments
- Exposure to:
- Taxation-related processes
- Payroll-related processes
- Associated compliance requirements
- Knowledge of finance systems
- Experience in:
- Finance transformation
- Platform implementations
- Systems change projects
- Familiarity with:
- Regulatory reporting requirements
- Financial services sectors
- Including life and pensions sectors
- No specific formal qualification requirements listed. Relevant experience and skills are the primary focus.
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Why Work Here?
You will join a leading mutual life and pensions organisation, offering:
- Exposure to complex, high-impact finance and BPA transformation initiatives
- Opportunities for professional growth through collaboration with expert stakeholders across:
- Finance
- Actuarial
- Risk
- Technology
- Operations
You will gain valuable experience in:
- End-to-end change delivery
- Regulatory reporting
- Finance systems transformation
Environment speaks to being 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, featuring:
- Cross-functional collaboration with:
- Finance
- Actuarial
- Risk
- Technology teams
- Operations
- Third-party vendors
- Standard usage of business analysis tools and methodologies for delivering both systems and process change
- A fast-paced and change-focused setting with features such as:
- Multiple concurrent projects
- Emphasis on governance
- Controls
- Regulatory compliance
Work patterns are typical of an office environment with collaboration across business and technology teams.
Location
Macclesfield, UK
Internal information on the business and assurances regarding data processing:
Trading as TEKsystems within Allegis Group Limited.
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