Business Analyst - PA26AUTRQ3136

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 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 Business Analyst – Role Profile Role Purpose The Senior Business Analyst works collaboratively across business and technology teams to analyse, design, and deliver process and system improvements. Operating within a hybrid transformation environment, the role plays a key part in defining requirements, optimising workflows, supporting intelligent automation initiatives, and ensuring high-quality delivery through structured testing and stakeholder engagement. The role supports strategic transformation programmes across the business, including operational re-engineering, service enhancement, capacity creation, automation delivery, and the adoption of AI-powered solutions across the full trading and operational lifecycle. In addition to supporting AI and automation initiatives, the Business Analyst is expected to utilise AI-enabled tools and techniques to accelerate business analysis, process discovery, requirements gathering, documentation production, testing activities and overall delivery execution while maintaining governance, quality and compliance standards. Key Responsibilities Requirements & Analysis • Engage with stakeholders to gather, analyse, validate and document business requirements. • Produce clear and structured documentation including Process Design Documents (PDDs), user stories, acceptance criteria, business cases, use cases and process maps. • Analyse current business processes to identify inefficiencies, risks and opportunities for optimisation, automation and AI adoption. • Evaluate new technologies, automation opportunities and AI capabilities, ensuring strong business cases and measurable benefits. • Act as the bridge between business teams, technology teams, data teams and operations functions. • Leverage AI-powered analysis tools to accelerate requirements gathering, documentation creation and impact assessments. • Apply data-driven analysis techniques to identify opportunities for process improvement and business value creation. Process & Workflow Design • Own the definition and design of future-state operating models and workflows. • Model business processes using Business Optix or equivalent process modelling platforms. • Facilitate workshops, interviews and discovery sessions with stakeholders across multiple business functions and locations. • Ensure all process changes follow appropriate governance, change control and documentation standards. • Take ownership of process and tool design on behalf of business stakeholders and secure approval. Automation, AI & Agentic Capabilities • Support the design and delivery of RPA and intelligent automation solutions. • Collaborate with technical teams to integrate AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, VLMs and Agentic AI capabilities into business processes. • Identify opportunities to leverage AI for decision support, document processing, workflow orchestration, knowledge management and conversational experiences. • Elicit, document and validate requirements for Agentic AI solutions, including governance controls, escalation paths and human-in-the-loop processes. • Support the design of digital workers and multi-agent workflows that automate end-to-end business processes. • Work closely with Automation Developers, AI Engineers and Solution Architects to translate business needs into scalable solutions. • Maintain awareness of emerging automation and AI technologies and assess their applicability to business challenges. UAT Ownership • Create and manage the full UAT lifecycle, including test strategies, plans, scripts and acceptance criteria. • Coordinate UAT execution with business users and stakeholders. • Ensure defects are logged, triaged and resolved efficiently. • Validate that delivered solutions meet business, regulatory and operational requirements. • Leverage AI-assisted testing tools to generate test cases, test scenarios and regression coverage. • Support automation testing initiatives and intelligent quality assurance practices. • Establish traceability between requirements, testing activities and delivered outcomes. • Provide clear reporting on quality, risks and production readiness. Delivery & Stakeholder Engagement • Support delivery teams throughout design, build, testing and implementation phases. • Monitor project progress and ensure alignment with business objectives and timelines. • Develop strong relationships across Operations, Technology, Risk and Business functions. • Support change adoption and continuous improvement initiatives. • Coach stakeholders in identifying and prioritising automation and AI opportunities. • Promote efficient use of AI-enabled delivery tools within transformation projects. Essential Skills & Experience Technical & Analytical • Proven experience as a Business Analyst within change, transformation or technology programmes. • Strong requirements gathering, process analysis and documentation skills. • Experience using Generative AI tools such as Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise or equivalent enterprise AI solutions. • Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs and ensure quality and accuracy. • Experience with process modelling and BPM tools. • Experience supporting or designing RPA and automation solutions. • Strong analytical capability with experience using Excel, SQL, Jira and reporting tools. • Experience in process re-engineering and continuous improvement. • Ability to build business cases and conduct cost-benefit analysis. • Strong planning, organisation and delivery management skil