Senior Business Analyst 18 month FTC

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

EQ Retirement Solutions (EQRS) provides member and policyholder administration and technology services; we're trusted experts to many of the UK's largest public and private sector schemes, long-term savings and retirement providers, no matter the scale and complexity.

Please note this role is an 18 month fixed term contract

Role Summary

As we transition to a product-led approach, this role focusses on implementing our product offerings with clients, addressing complex regulatory requirements, and supporting effective operational changes. The senior business analyst will bridge the gap between client needs and our solutions, ensuring seamless, compliant and successful implementations.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to gather, document, and analyse requirements related life and pensions and regulatory changes.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including operations, compliance, and technical teams, to ensure that client implementations meet regulatory standards and business objectives.
• Develop business process models, identify gaps, and recommend improvements aligned with product strategy and business values drivers.
• Create comprehensive documentation, including business requirements, functional specifications, and process flow diagrams.
• Support end-to-end implementation lifecycle, ensuring alignment with product-led transition and best practices for client solutions.
• Support testing, training, and participate in post-implementation support to ensure solutions meet client expectations and regulatory obligations.
• Supporting other business analysts in the delivery of regulatory change.
• Contribute to the planning of business analysis deliverable and support activity.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Strong previous experience as a business analyst or senior business analyst, preferable in life and pensions or a similar field
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements in the life and pensions sector.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact with clients and stakeholders effectively.
• Proven analytical capabilities, with a keen attention to detail and the ability to translate business needs into actionable solutions.
• Experience of client implementation in a product-led organisation.
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly MS Word, MS Excel and MS Visio.

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development - Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks