Defined Benefits Pensions Business Analyst

Defined Benefits Pensions Business Analyst

We are looking for an experienced Defined Benefits Pensions Business Analyst to support a pensions administrator through the discovery phase of a planned migration onto IntelliPen, the pensions administration platform provided by Procentia.

This is likely to be an initial 3-month engagement, focused on understanding the client's current DB pensions administration environment, capturing operational and product requirements, assessing migration readiness, and helping shape the approach for a future platform migration. The role would suit someone with deep Defined Benefits pensions knowledge, strong business analysis capability, and prior experience supporting pensions administration platform change.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activity during the discovery phase of a DB pensions administration platform migration.
• Work with pensions administrators, operations teams, SMEs and technology stakeholders to understand current-state processes, data, controls and pain points.
• Capture and document product, operational, functional and non-functional requirements for DB scheme administration.
• Support analysis of how existing DB administration processes will map onto IntelliPen or a comparable pensions administration platform.
• Produce clear discovery outputs including process maps, requirements documentation, stakeholder summaries, RAID inputs and recommendations.
• Act as a credible bridge between pensions operations, business users and technical delivery teams.

Essential Experience

• Strong experience working with Defined Benefits pension schemes at both product and operational administration level.
• Proven business analysis experience within pensions administration, platform change or operational transformation environments.
• Experience supporting or delivering pensions administration platform migrations, ideally involving DB schemes.
• Understanding of DB scheme administration processes, including member records, calculations, workflows, case management, reporting, controls and regulatory considerations.
• Ability to engage with pensions SMEs, administrators, business users and senior stakeholders.

Desirable Experience

• Hands-on experience with IntelliPen / Procentia.