At Smart, our mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing, across all generations, around the world.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a highly driven transformational Business Analyst to lead the optimisation of our customer services operating model and customer experience. This role involves challenging the status quo in designing and integrating automation and AI capabilities to drive efficiency, enabling human resources to focus on high-value customer touchpoints.
Delivery of automation solutions that optimise demand management, streamline workflows, and ensure customers are supported through the effective and appropriate channels.
Embedding a continuous improvement cycle that systematically monitors outcomes, correlates performance data, and translates those insights into iterative enhancements. Driving ongoing user learning and continuously improving the customer experience of newly implemented processes.
Success involves a seamless transition to BAU with robust controls and monitoring for continued evolution and development.
Responsibilities:
Champion the vision for the emerging operating model in design and implementation of automation, driving efficiency and focus human resources on high value customer touchpoints.
Develop a deep working knowledge of the technology systems and tooling with view to onward ownership of future development beyond ‘go live’.
Challenge the status quo by identifying inefficiencies, unnecessary practices, and manual processes, and redesigning them using digital first principles to manage demand more effectively.
Lead the implementation of automation and AI tooling, including workflow automation.
Optimise customer demand management, ensuring queries and transactions are routed through the most effective channels (self-service, digital, assisted support).
Achieve improved SLAs with significant reduction in manual processing and operational inefficiencies through increased adoption of digital and self-service channels by customers.
Use data and insights to continuously refine processes, improve service levels, and reduce operational costs.
Collaborate cross functionally with operations, technology, data, compliance, and customer experience teams to deliver solutions and shape.
Act as the voice of the customer and the business, ensuring solutions deliver measurable value and improved outcomes.
Drive adoption and cultural change, embedding new ways of working and ensuring teams are equipped to succeed in a digitally enabled environment.
Monitor performance and success metrics, using KPIs and analytics to track efficiency gains, customer satisfaction, and demand reduction.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The skills, experience, and aptitudes we are looking for are listed below but please don’t be discouraged from applying if you don’t meet every single one of these criteria – having a ‘can do’ attitude is sometimes more important than being able to tick every box:
Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst, Product Owner
Experience in a regulated and complex operational environment (financial services and pensions preferred).
Strong track record of implementing automation and digital customer journeys.
Deep understanding of process optimisation, demand management, and operational design.
Track record of measurable shift in customer demand, efficiencies and how operational teams work.
Ability to engage stakeholders constructively and influence at all levels of the organisation.
Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
Experience working in agile environments and managing product roadmap.
WHO WE ARE
We work in partnerships with governments and financial institutions in the UK and internationally. Our cloud-native digital platform is revolutionising how people around the world think about, and save for, their retirement.
At heart, we’re a financial technology business. What we do is all about innovation, and using the power of digital change to put the customer first. Our Engineers will tell you that working at Smart gives you the opportunity to play your part in developing world-class technological solutions, working with – and learning from – like-minded people.
You’ll also find that, across our business, our colleagues love Smart’s culture, and how what we do means better financial outcomes for savers. That feels worthwhile, and it means that what we do, collectively, goes way beyond the nine to five of a typical working day.
Don’t just take our word for it – you can see what our colleagues say about working at Smart on LinkedIn Life and Glassdoor.
BENEFITS
At Smart, one of the eight principles we work to is “We want happy and good people in our team”. We created a list of benefits that helps us achieve this goal:
25 days’ holiday per year, increasing with length of service.
£500 annual training budget to spend on your professional development
Extensive private healthcare, including dental, eyecare and EAP
Enhanced sick leave (three months’ pay per year)
Enhanced maternity and paternity (maternity – 6 months fully paid/paternity – 3 weeks fully paid)
Death in service insurance cover
Fully-paid five-week sabbatical after five years of employment
In office wellbeing, such as manicures, massages and barbers.
Smart employees also enjoy a 50% discount on orders from our sister company Arena Flowers, Britain's most ethical florist. They offer unique hand-tied bouquets, luxury flowers, letterbox flowers, plants and gifts to spend on friends and loved ones or even for yourself.
At Smart, we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to do their best work.
We believe that diverse perspectives help us lead the way in transforming retirement, savings, and financial wellbeing. We welcome differences in background, experience, thinking, and identity, and we recognise that innovation is strongest when it is built on inclusion and fairness. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to let us know - we are committed to supporting you.
We think Smart is an awesome place to work. If it sounds like somewhere you’d like to work, too, and if you’re ready to play your part in our continued success in the future, then naturally we’d love to meet you.
