Finance Business Analyst (Insurance) 9 - 12 month FTC - SAGA : Job Details

Finance Business Analyst (Insurance)

Up to £50,000 per annum dependent on experience

9 - 12 Month FTC

London Hybrid

Here at Saga, we are looking for a new Business Analyst to join Saga Insurance.

Following Saga’s recent announcement to partner with Ageas in early 2026, you will provide business analysis across the Finance and Finance Operations workstream within the change project.

You’ll translate ideas into potential business processes or system solutions to provide a detailed understanding of current business processes and the impact of the change throughout the change life cycle.

Based on the key strategic nature of many of the projects and changes that are managed through the team, this role will provide the opportunity to work with a variety of people and teams across both businesses and will regularly involve interaction with senior management.

We offer flexibility over where you work - you choose a place where you feel most comfortable and productive, either from home or in one of our hubs. There will be an occasional need to collaborate for workshops in person in London or the South East.

Main Responsibilities

Our Business Analyst will be accountable for Capturing, interpreting, and translating business requirements and turning them into requirement documentation for use in change delivery through sprint cycles and other change methodologies.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Engineering requirements to ensure they are relevant, accurate, validated, and signed off within the business before being passed through to technical analysis, development, and test.
• Facilitation of effective workshops and meetings by using smart questioning to draw out requirements, options, and outcomes
• Being business solution focused, evaluating multiple options before helping the business to settle on a solution, recommending ways to tackle a task or solve a problem
• Identifying system and operational process gaps, pro-actively raising these to the relevant department and support in the creation of their change requests and looking for opportunities as part of continuous improvement
• Maintaining knowledge of the project and change lifecycles
• Applying project methodologies utilised within Saga
• Gaining an extensive knowledge of systems, operations, and people across the business
• Demonstrating and maintaining a logical approach and open mind to problem solving
• Ensuring swift progress across multiple concurrent workstreams through organisation and time management skills, whilst being able to adapt quickly to changing priorities and workloads.
• Effectively managing internal/external stakeholder and department expectations around scope, delivery, and timescales.
• Ensuring actions, risks, issues, and decisions are logged against appropriate change items in accordance with the best practice requirements of Change Management
• Reporting and tracking progress across my assigned projects, identifying and escalating any blockers hindering progress where necessary
• Supporting Project Managers and Scrum/Squad Teams within Change where additional analysis is required

The Ideal Candidate

You will have previously worked as a Business Analyst within a Finance function or workstream. Whilst experience withing the Insurance industry isnt essential, it would be of advantage.

You will also be able to demonstrate the following skills and experiences;

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Proven experience of good communication at various levels
• Shown curiosity and being naturally inquisitive and happy to provide challenge where necessary
• Good working knowledge of Business Analyst Practices or have transferrable skills that could be used.
• Usage of Microsoft applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Visio and Draw.io of advantage)
• Relevant toolkit or Business Analyst qualifications
• Working knowledge of Waterfall and Agile
• Proven experience of in gathering and documenting requirements
• Proven experience of process modelling