Overview

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is a strategic priority. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work and to attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people focus on clients, stakeholders, and society, delivering excellent client service supported by technology and talent.

About The Department

Our Asset Management Tribe evolves, maintains, and supports the products that support our asset management business. Within that tribe, we have squads responsible for delivering new features and capabilities, as well as maintenance.

About The Role

As a Technical Business Analyst in this squad, you will be a skilled, inquisitive, and collaborative professional, familiar with the business domain and the application functionality, and capable of both defining and implementing solutions to meet business requirements. You will be an SME in leveraging Charles River IMS for advanced analytics, using your expertise to drive insightful business solutions and optimise application functionality. You will work closely with Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, and Technical Leads to understand outcomes, create user stories, configure application settings, test and validate solutions and support deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Tribe Leads, Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, and squad members to understand and deliver business outcomes, leveraging Charles River IMS capabilities.
• Influence product evolution within your squad and across squads to ensure that tribe outcomes are successfully met.
• Define user journeys and user stories to meet business outcomes with valid and meaningful acceptance criteria.
• Identify opportunities to reuse existing functionality, simplify processes, and leverage configuration in Charles River IMS to accelerate solution delivery.
• Document user stories in Azure DevOps and communicate them effectively to the squad.
• Configure application settings to implement user stories, applying best practices and standards.
• Test and validate solutions to ensure quality and user satisfaction.
• Participate in Agile Development ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Build the analysis capability both within and across squads by contributing to your Analysis Chapter, mentoring less experienced analysts, and identifying achievable, positive, and pragmatic changes as part of continual improvement exercises.

About The Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Understanding of the asset management business.
• Strong experience with Charles River IMS.
• Experience delivering complex software solutions for financial services.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps as a work management system.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organisational, and time management skills.
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to lead and influence as appropriate.

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.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients changing needs.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you. At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a blended working approach, combining face-to-face collaboration with flexible working from home. We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from unfair or unlawful treatment. If you need assistance or an adjustment to your interview arrangements, please let us know and we’ll be happy to help. We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense and we welcome enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.