Business Analyst Lead

Location: Edinburgh, Peterborough and Witham (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Salary: A competitive salary from £57,600 - £86,400 depending on the experience you can bring

As a purpose-led business, we're focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We're here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

Aegon UK's Transformation department leads the delivery of strategic change across the organisation, managing the UK change portfolio and evolving the Change Management framework. Business Analysis is a core capability within Transformation, translating business needs into actionable requirements and processes and guiding technology solutions, ensuring outcomes deliver real value.

As a Business Analyst Lead role your role will combine senior-level business analysis with a considerable focus on line management and practice leadership. You will continue to lead complex analysis activities across strategic programmes or Value Streams, while also being accountable for managing a team of Business Analysts and driving the development of the business analysis practice.

This is a leadership role, responsible for defining and maintaining analysis standards, frameworks, and methodologies that ensure consistency, quality, and strategic alignment across the transformation portfolio. You will play a key role in shaping the direction of business analysis within Aegon UK, fostering capability uplift, and embedding best practice.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Leading and managing a team of Business Analysts, conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations, coaching and mentoring analysts to deepen business knowledge and analytical capability.
• Driving continuous improvement in analysis practices, tooling, and methodology across the transformation portfolio.
• Allocating resources effectively, balancing skills, capacity, and development needs.
• Reviewing and assuring quality of analysis deliverables, ensuring consistency and strategic alignment.
• Leading complex, cross-functional analysis initiatives aligned to business goals and regulatory frameworks.
• Engaging senior stakeholders to influence decision-making and ensure clarity of objectives.
• Translating strategic objectives into actionable insight for the BA team, fostering alignment and understanding.

Desired qualifications:

• Extensive experience in business analysis, with a strong track record of leading complex initiatives.
• Proven leadership and people management skills, including coaching and capability development.
• Expertise in defining and applying analysis frameworks and methodologies across change portfolios.
• Advanced stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including experience with senior leadership.
• Strategic thinking and commercial awareness, with the ability to align analysis to business goals.
• Experience working in Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery environments.
• Strong data analysis skills and the ability to translate insights into business recommendations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.

What's in it for you?

We're serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we'll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we'll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that's 7% from you and 13% from us).

A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance

38 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments. To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our careers site.

Make an Impact!If you're passionate about making a difference and want to work in a place where your contributions are valued, apply now. Let's create something amazing together!

The legal bits

We'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.