Business Analyst Hybrid

About Us 3173 is a privately owned UK firm of pensions experts with clients throughout the UK, serviced from offices in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds. The 3173 Group of companies includes Dalriada Trustees Limited (Dalriada) one of the UKs largest professional pension scheme trustee companies. Spence & Partners provides full pension actuarial, consulting, investment consulting and administration services that provide simply smarter solutions for trustees, employers and members and Mantle: reimagines the traditional models of defined benefit pensions administration and actuarial valuation software. We look after our staff first and foremost, but for a commercial purpose, which is to deliver great service profitably. By focusing on our goal, we provide the best outcomes for pension scheme members, trustees, and employers. About You We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst on an initial 6-month contract based in Belfast. This role will support the delivery across the portfolio of business and technology change initiatives across 3173. Working closely with stakeholders across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Technology, and Compliance, you will play a key role in shaping requirements, improving processes, and ensuring that change initiatives deliver tangible business value. The focus is on capturing robust business requirements, defining detailed functional and non functional requirements, and producing current and future state process maps, and documenting test plans. This role is well suited to a contractor who enjoys bringing structure to ambiguity, operating in fast-moving environments, and supporting the delivery of core systems during periods of growth and transformation. This role requires two days per week onsite in Belfast, and occasional travel to other UK offices may be required. Responsibilities & Criteria Discovery & Analysis Lead workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions to identify business needs, pain points, and opportunities for improvement. Analyse and map current-state processes and data flows, documenting issues and constraints. Requirements & Design Produce clear, high-quality functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation. Translate business requirements into actionable inputs for technical teams and implementation partners. Support solution design by evaluating options against business, regulatory, and data requirements. Proactively identify gaps, ambiguities, dependencies, and delivery risks. Delivery & Validation Work closely with developers, consultants, and project teams to deliver scalable, user-centric solutions. Define test scenarios and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), documenting outcomes, defects, and decisions. Change & Adoption Support user adoption through clear documentation, stakeholder engagement, and contribution to training materials. Champion continuous improvement and user experience throughout the delivery lifecycle. Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly and professionally to stakeholders. Required Experience & Profile Strong experience as a Business Analyst or consultant Experience within the pensions industry (preferred) or financial services. Solid understanding of data models, workflows, automation, integrations, and user roles. Applying with a disability or long-term health condition? As part of our belief that we benefit from the differences among us we are committed to increasing the representation of disabled colleagues and want to remove any barriers or challenges that get in the way of candidates with a disability or long-term health condition from applying to work with us. As part of this commitment, we guarantee to automatically interview anyone with a disability who meets the minimum criteria.