Business Analyst

Job Description Job Type

Permanent

Edinburgh, Telford or Birmingham

£40,000 - £53,000 (subject to experience) +bonus, excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance, electric vehicle scheme, 38 days holiday incl. Bank Holidays, plus 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more!

All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

5th October 2026

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures. Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices.

We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day. At Standard Life, we’ve built a hugely successful, well respected and rapidly developing business by putting our people first. We believe attracting, developing, motivating and inspiring exceptional people benefits our customers, our shareholders and ultimately, our performance.

We strive to be the best place anyone has ever worked. Join us and you can look forward to challenging and rewarding work, alongside highly skilled colleagues with world class expertise. The Pensions and Savings Change Hub is a dynamic team of change professionals driving strategic transformation across three core delivery centres. We play a pivotal role in aligning change initiatives with business strategy, enabling market-leading outcomes in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced Business Analyst to join the Pensions & Savings Change team. As part of this high-profile strategic transformation programme, you will work across multiple business areas, programmes and third-party suppliers to shape and challenge business thinking, define and manage requirements, assess business impacts, and ensure solutions deliver the intended business and strategic outcomes.

Operating within a complex and evolving environment, you will apply a range of analysis techniques to bring clarity to ambiguity, support informed decision-making, and drive successful delivery across multiple work streams. Working with a high degree of autonomy, you will build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, influence key decisions through insight-led analysis, and help drive consensus across diverse business and technology teams.

You will be responsible for defining and managing scope, eliciting and analysing requirements, assessing impacts across people, processes, systems and operating models, and maintaining clear traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle. The role will also play a key part in supporting solution development, testing, business readiness, implementation and transition into business-as-usual operations, ensuring change is effectively embedded and delivers lasting business value.

Given the scale, complexity and strategic importance of Project Skye, this opportunity is best suited to a highly capable Business Analyst with a proven track record of delivering within large-scale business and operational transformation programmes and…