Senior Business & Test Analyst - 12 Month FTC

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

The Role: In this role, you will support the ongoing work to roll-out PruFund to 3rd Party Platforms, specifically working with and testing in pControl, the application that is being used to provide the unit register for all platforms investing in PruFund, internal and external. The first external investment platform has just gone live, and so we’re at the start of an exciting period of rolling out to a number of other external platforms that are in the pipeline. You would be testing that the functionality in pControl behaves as intended for each new platform, and that files received from and sent to the various platforms are processed as expected. You would also be dealing with defects and change requests that are identified as part of this testing. You would be working alongside the Investment Funds Oversight (IFO) team that operate the unit register, and that use pControl for a number of other functions on a daily basis, so will be trained by them and able to draw on their expertise during your testing and analysis work.

Key Responsibilities:

• This role involves applying strong numerical and analytical skills, and previous practical experience in the UK financial services industry is essential, particularly with the use and testing of finance and/or investment systems.
• Working with the project team on day-to-day testing, including SIT, UAT, end-to-end, negative & positive, and regression testing.
• Producing & testing of a suite of outputs produced by pControl for PruFund on Platform.
• Supporting the operation & maintenance of different test environments at different stages of testing.
• Maintaining JIRA test records with all testing completed.
• Identifying defects, reporting these through the relevant mechanisms, depending upon whether the defect is in pControl, the relevant platform being tested at the time, or some other application or tool used in the end-to-end process.
• Identifying where a change request is required, working with the pControl supplier to understand potential solutions, and raising through the project to secure approval & funding for the change.
• Working with the IFO team to identify any changes to their daily processes as a result of the new platforms, including any changes made in pControl to facilitate those new platforms.
• Documenting any changes to business procedure documentation, and rolling out those changes to business users.
• Support the project team in planning (& re-planning) delivery timescales.
• Support the IFO team in achieving readiness ahead of go-live for each new platform.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in the UK financial services industry.
• Experience working with pControl highly desirable.
• Previous experience of performing business and test analysis.
• Experience of different types of system testing.
• Strong analytical skills, with good attention to detail.
• Experience of documenting business requirements and change requests.
• Good knowledge of UK regulatory & legislative requirements.
• Working knowledge of different systems and control frameworks.
• Experience working with third party relationships.
• Adapts easily to change, and provides positive role model to others.

What we offer:

We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G. At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.

M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com