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