Lead Business Analyst - Alderley Park

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Lead Business Analyst to work for our client within the insurance sector. This is initially a 7-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Alderley Park.

Our client is seeking a highly experienced Senior or Lead Business Analyst to support the integration of an outsourced international book of business into their internal systems. The role will focus on the 360 projects within the Long Standing Customer and Annuities portfolio, involving complex financial products across multiple regulatory jurisdictions.

This is a high-impact role requiring strong analytical skills, stakeholder engagement, and experience in long-term financial products. The successful candidate will play a key part in delivering a strategic migration project involving UK and German books of business. The migration project will require operational and data platform integration, regulatory alignment across jurisdictions, replatforming and servicing transition and collaboration with stakeholders multiple locations.

Responsibilities

• Document and validate detailed business and technical requirements for the migration of UK and German books of business
• Ensure alignment with the agreed design approach and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams to meet governance obligations
• Engage and coordinate with external vendors throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Develop and maintain a target-state data dictionary and lead data mapping activities
• Define and document data quality rulesets to support robust migration outcomes
• Liaise with cross-functional teams including developers, testers, and operational leads to drive successful execution

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Senior or Lead Business Analyst in financial services, especially within long-term financial products (e.g., whole life investment bonds)
• Strong understanding of cross-border regulatory environments and international financial product structures
• Proven ability in data analysis, including familiarity with ETL processes and data quality frameworks
• Comfortable working across product, process, and data streams simultaneously
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to influence at all levels
• Organised, detail-focused, and capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment
• Experience working with legacy or outsourced books of business
• Knowledge of German financial regulations or markets would be advantageous

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.