Senior Business Analyst 6-month FTC

EQ Retirement Solutions is transforming the retirement and pensions markets with leading administration and technology solutions. With over 1200 employees globally, 189 years of knowledge and 11 million pension scheme members and policyholders, we are here to help people plan for a confident financial future by delivering innovative, reliable and customer-focused retirement services. Our teams are driven by a shared commitment to excellence, collaboration and making a real impact to the lives of our clients and customers.

Role Summary

EQ Retirement Solutions are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join their Private Sector team. 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.

This is a 6 month FTC and will be on a prorated salary (not a day rate contractor role). Prior experience in pensions is an essential.

The role can either be Hybrid Crawley, Liverpool or Caithness OR remote.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• 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.

The duties and responsibilities outlined above are to be regarded as broad areas of responsibility and do not necessarily detail all tasks which the post holder may be required to perform.

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%
• 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 29 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