Lead Business Analyst

Location: City of Edinburgh

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February 18, 2026 (12 days left to apply) job requisition :
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**** Job Description
**** At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
* interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
* Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
* Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
** About the Department
** This role sits within our Adviser sector and our business strategy is to always be the advisers’ first choice, delivering solutions that makes advice easy
** About the Role
** Lead Business Analysts play a key role throughout the change lifecycle, contributing to the initial shaping of work at the “idea” stage, helping colleagues and key external 3rd party partners understand and identify their requirements, contributing to designing solutions and supporting delivery, test and implementation of those solutions.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Use your broad skill sets within this framework to contribute your extensive business and systems knowledge to support the end to end solution.
* Form part of the Leadership Team within the wider business analysis practice acting as a point of reference, knowledge, experience.
* Colleague management and guidance responsibility for less senior members of the team.
** About the Candidate
** The ideal candidate will possess the following:
* Demonstratable experience of working on change in a Business Analysis role.
* In depth understanding of development life cycles and associated disciplines, particularly the role of Business Analysis.
* Exposure to leading a team of BA’s within a project.
* Ideally, possess an awareness of financial services products in the investment and savings market.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
** Our benefits
** There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits
** Our business
** Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do .
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