Business Analyst

Description:

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to appoint a Business Analyst within one of the UK’s largest pension funds to join the existing programme team and support key change projects and initiatives that will help WMPF deliver its strategic goals and objectives.

The West Midlands Pension Fund is one of the largest UK pension funds, ranking fourth in size across the Local Government Pension Scheme. Administered by City of Wolverhampton Council, it has a historic place within the region in supporting its partner councils across the West Midlands.

The Fund, from its state of the art new offices at I9 in Wolverhampton, manages and administers the pension benefits of over 330,000 members across more than 800 employers – making data management a core function and central to its ability to provide a high quality service its customers.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop knowledge of the organisation, its aims, objectives and priorities, and to understand the impact of the major business change programmes of the Fund and the effect they will have on the organisation and other change initiatives, becoming a catalyst for change, helping to drive through the initiatives and the realisation of business benefits.
• Develop productive and effective relationships with business customers, meeting with all levels of business user to understand the business and requirements.
• Define and analyse existing KPIs & underlying processes to identify areas for improving efficiency and effectiveness through waste reduction, removal of non-value-add activities, and exploiting opportunities to increase levels of STP.
• Map and document business processes, ensuring all systems dependencies and interfaces are captured, inherent risks identified, and appropriate controls defined.
• Prepare procedures documentation to support the development of key business processes, ensuring roles and responsibilities across the process are clearly set out and understood.
• Prepare systems and data maps to ensure data capture, storage and flows between systems are understood and optimised where possible, whilst also considering overall data integrity.