Business Analyst

Business Area: Pensions Solutions and Control

Place of Work: Liverpool

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

When you join USS, the size and scale of our pension scheme means you will have numerous opportunities to learn and develop your career. Given our size you'll have real autonomy and influence as you collaborate closely with a wide-ranging team of experts.

Our office is a vibrant place to work, and we offer flexibility of office/homeworking due to our hybrid model.

About the role

In your role as Business Analyst you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to join the Business Analysis & Test team.

Your role will be critical to the capture and definition of high-quality business requirements, supporting USS’ large and complex change portfolio and small change initiatives.

You will develop key relationships with business and technical colleagues, senior and executive stakeholders across the organisation, as well as external service providers.

Ensuring that you maintain and develop your knowledge of USS’ business, products and services, the wider life and pensions industry and your business analysis technical skills, you will also take ownership of the responsibilities listed below whilst recognising the role requires personal flexibility and adaptability to support the business in the delivery of change.

What you will be doing

As a trusted part of the Pensions Solutions and Control you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring the rigorous application of USS’ Change Model and Business Analysis Methodology (BAM) frameworks to capture, validate, and document business requirements
• Working with proposition, product, and business owners to deliver requirements by establishing clear objectives, scope, impacts and business outcomes
• Developing solution designs with internal and external partners, through a deep understanding of the change requirements, and validating these against USS’ design principles
• Ensuring that business requirements are quality-assured through the peer group review process, appropriate approvals obtained, and end-to-end traceability maintained
• Guiding stakeholders at all levels through the various stages of change, ensuring business requirements are unambiguous and well understood
• Working collaboratively with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure proposed requirements and solution designs are impact assessed against USS’ architecture frameworks
• Engaging the Enterprise Architecture / IT to assess solution designs, evaluate alternative solutions and understand the business and technical impacts
• Ensuring impact assessments are documented, reviewed, and understood by all change stakeholders
• Producing high quality inputs to the USS Design Authority to facilitate effective solution design reviews and approvals
• Support the review, validation, and challenge of commercial impacts resulting from change requirements

About you

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box, if you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, then please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the requirements outlined in this profile.

To be successful in the role you will have:

• Excellent business analysis and problem-solving skills
• Requirements elicitation through interview, workshop & observation
• Business Process Modelling techniques
• Requirements analysis and definition
• Excellent communication skills: able to present complex business solutions, both written and verbal, to key stakeholders
• Strong pensions administration and/or investment knowledge

Why join us?

At USS, every individual contributes to building a secure financial future for our members and their families. We strive to create a work environment where everyone can thrive professionally while making a meaningful impact on the lives of others.

We're also committed to helping you build your career by providing opportunities for development. We put a focus on recognising and supporting each individual's unique career path, driving this forward with the support of an engaged and proactive management team.

Here at USS, we want you to thrive in and out of work with a friendly team, flexible culture and excellent range of benefits!

How we will reward you

• Great starting salary
• Generous annual leave package
• Access to a high quality pension scheme provided through Universities Superannuation Scheme
• Supportive people policies (including enhanced occupational sickness pay and family friendly pay)
• Financial contributions towards your personal development to help you maintain your physical and mental wellbeing
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., private healthcare, discounted gym membership
• Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent
• Employee Volunteer Day’s to support the communities where you work and live
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Our culture and values

Our people are what makes us different. We work together to create a diverse and inclusive culture that embraces individuality, where people are welcomed and feel comfortable in the knowledge that they can be themselves.

Our purpose firmly states the importance of members, putting them ‘front and centre’ of what we do. This is embedded through our values:

• Integrity
• Collaboration
• Excellence

About us

Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) was established in 1974 as the principal pension scheme for universities and higher education institutions in the UK.

We work with around 330 employers to help build a secure financial future for more than 528,000 members and their families.

USSL is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We strive to ensure our recruitment process is as flexible and inclusive as possible so we can attract diverse candidates and recruit the best talent.