Change Business Analyst
Role Overview
Permanent Change Business Analyst role in Edinburgh, focused on change across corporate functions, particularly Finance and HR.
Shape business problems into clear requirements, decisions and delivery-ready outcomes with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts, technology teams and third-party providers.
The posting describes a blended working approach combining office collaboration with flexibility.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Aberdeen
Aberdeen plc is an investment company with business areas focused on changing client needs: Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser and interactive investor.
Department
The Corporate Tribe delivers change across corporate functions, working with Finance, HR, Technology and business stakeholders to support effective operations, risk management and regulatory obligations.
About the role
Permanent Change Business Analyst role in Edinburgh, focused on change across corporate functions, particularly Finance and HR.
Shape business problems into clear requirements, decisions and delivery-ready outcomes with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts, technology teams and third-party providers.
The posting describes a blended working approach combining office collaboration with flexibility.
Key responsibilities
- Lead analysis from discovery and problem definition through delivery support.
- Elicit, analyse and document requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria, process impacts and operating model considerations.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews and discovery sessions to clarify priorities, decisions, risks and dependencies.
- Assess impacts across Finance, HR, Technology, Data, Risk, Procurement and third-party providers.
- Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, governance activities and delivery readiness.
- Ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are clear, prioritised, testable and aligned to business outcomes.
Essential candidate experience
- Personally lead business analysis from initial discovery through documented requirements, process impacts, acceptance criteria and delivery support.
- Personally lead business analysis on at least one substantive change initiative within a corporate Finance or HR function.
- Provide a clear example of the business problem, personal analysis, affected processes and resulting delivery or business outcome.
Desirable experience
- ERP, Finance or HR systems change is desirable.
- Regulated or deadline-driven change is desirable.
- Agile or hybrid delivery is desirable.
- Change spanning more than one corporate function is desirable.
Benefits
- Benefits include 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, discretionary performance-based bonus where applicable, private healthcare and flexible benefits.
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