Description
As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Head of Business Analysis (Digital)
Locations: London | Basildon
Get To Know Us:
SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow's brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few SS&C Global Investor Distribution Solutions (GIDS) provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company's operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.
As part of the Global Digital team at GIDS, you'll play a crucial role in managing the delivery of digital technologies across TA, Superannuation, Wealth industries for a world-leading Financial Services Technology firm.
Why You Will Love It Here!
• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career
What You Will Get To Do:
This is a high-impact leadership role, responsible for guiding the strategic direction of business analysis, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution, and driving the development and enhancement of our products. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in business analysis, financial services, and working with cross-functional teams within an Agile digital product environment.
• Global remit
• Hands on approach
• Ensure that Digital product requirements are created and maintained - specifically: journey mapping, workflows, architecture diagrams, data mapping
• Sequencing and prioritisation – Discovery/Analysis ensuring that we are ready for the next delivery phase – including preparing HLEs, impediments/dependencies
• Responsible for managing the handover from Solutions Consultancy
What You Will Bring:
Leadership & Strategy:
• Team Management – Lead and manage a team of business analysts, providing mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities to foster growth and innovation.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership for the business analysis team, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and objectives.
• Strategic input – provide strategic input to senior leadership, advising on business analysis trends, tools, and techniques to support organisational transformation.
• Developing Policies and standards – drive and create a framework, organisational policies, standards and guidelines for Business Analysis methods and tools and strive for continuous improvement.
• Community of Practice (CoP) – Promote and establish a CoP within the organisation.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
• Cross Leadership team communication – engage with Development and Delivery teams' leadership to ensure that analysis priorities are aligned with client priority.
• Client Stakeholder management – ensuring regular communication with client stakeholders to ensure requirements are managed accordingly.
• Strategic Analysis – Collaborate with senior stakeholders to establish and prioritise business priorities, gather requirements ensuring these are translated into actionable technical and functional requirements.
• Effectively communicate complex business needs and requirements to technical teams in a clear and actionable format.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring transparent and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Project Governance – ensuring expected project governance is in place identifying status of active projects, RAID and project updates are documented and communicated across teams.
Product Development & Innovation:
• Lead the requirements gathering process, defining business objectives, functional specifications, and user stories for platform features and enhancements.
• Work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and development teams to ensure that product solutions meet user needs, are scalable, and deliver a superior user experience.
• Analyse and assess market trends, customer feedback, and competitor platforms
Head of Business Analysis (Digital)
Locations: London | Basildon
Get To Know Us:
SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow's brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few SS&C Global Investor Distribution Solutions (GIDS) provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company's operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.
As part of the Global Digital team at GIDS, you'll play a crucial role in managing the delivery of digital technologies across TA, Superannuation, Wealth industries for a world-leading Financial Services Technology firm.
Why You Will Love It Here!
• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career
What You Will Get To Do:
This is a high-impact leadership role, responsible for guiding the strategic direction of business analysis, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution, and driving the development and enhancement of our products. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in business analysis, financial services, and working with cross-functional teams within an Agile digital product environment.
• Global remit
• Hands on approach
• Ensure that Digital product requirements are created and maintained - specifically: journey mapping, workflows, architecture diagrams, data mapping
• Sequencing and prioritisation – Discovery/Analysis ensuring that we are ready for the next delivery phase – including preparing HLEs, impediments/dependencies
• Responsible for managing the handover from Solutions Consultancy
What You Will Bring:
Leadership & Strategy:
• Team Management – Lead and manage a team of business analysts, providing mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities to foster growth and innovation.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership for the business analysis team, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and objectives.
• Strategic input – provide strategic input to senior leadership, advising on business analysis trends, tools, and techniques to support organisational transformation.
• Developing Policies and standards – drive and create a framework, organisational policies, standards and guidelines for Business Analysis methods and tools and strive for continuous improvement.
• Community of Practice (CoP) – Promote and establish a CoP within the organisation.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
• Cross Leadership team communication – engage with Development and Delivery teams' leadership to ensure that analysis priorities are aligned with client priority.
• Client Stakeholder management – ensuring regular communication with client stakeholders to ensure requirements are managed accordingly.
• Strategic Analysis – Collaborate with senior stakeholders to establish and prioritise business priorities, gather requirements ensuring these are translated into actionable technical and functional requirements.
• Effectively communicate complex business needs and requirements to technical teams in a clear and actionable format.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring transparent and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Project Governance – ensuring expected project governance is in place identifying status of active projects, RAID and project updates are documented and communicated across teams.
Product Development & Innovation:
• Lead the requirements gathering process, defining business objectives, functional specifications, and user stories for platform features and enhancements.
• Work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and development teams to ensure that product solutions meet user needs, are scalable, and deliver a superior user experience.
• Analyse and assess market trends, customer feedback, and competitor platforms to inform product strategy and continuously enhance platform offerings.
Skills & Competencies:
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong understanding of digital product development processes, including Agile methodologies.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects and initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of financial regulations, industry standards, and best practices in digital platforms.
• Familiarity with project management tools and business analysis software.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.
to inform product strategy and continuously enhance platform offerings.
Skills & Competencies:
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business requirements into clear technical specifications.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong understanding of digital product development processes, including Agile methodologies.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects and initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of financial regulations, industry standards, and best practices in digital platforms.
• Familiarity with project management tools and business analysis software.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
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