About the Role
As a Technical Business Analyst embedded within the UK Wealth & Financial Planning agile team, you will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the technical delivery team. You will be responsible for translating complex financial planning and wealth management processes into clear, actionable requirements that drive high-quality technology solutions.
This role is based out of Cape Town, and we will only consider candidates with experience working withing a Wealth Management business.
Responsibilities
- Lead the elicitation, documentation, and validation of business and technical requirements across wealth and financial planning processes
- Facilitate workshops and interviews with advisers, paraplanners, and operational stakeholders to capture current-state pain points and future-state needs
- Produce high-quality artefacts including process maps, user stories, use cases, and functional specifications
- Define and validate acceptance criteria in collaboration with the Product Owner and QA teams
- Document and assess integration requirements, including API-based connections between advice platforms, CRM systems, and third-party data providers
- Analyse end-to-end advice and financial planning journeys to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for technology-led improvement
- Map as-is and to-be processes, ensuring alignment with regulatory and compliance requirements
- Identify opportunities to embed AI-powered tooling into advice workflows — such as automated fact-find analysis, AI-assisted suitability report generation, or intelligent document processing — and translate these into structured requirements
- Work closely with the Product Owner to refine and maintain a well-groomed backlog
- Participate actively in sprint ceremonies — refinement, planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Support the development team in understanding requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle, resolving ambiguity quickly and pragmatically
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across advice, planning, and operations
- Communicate complex technical and process changes clearly to non-technical audiences
- Provide regular progress updates and facilitate sign-off on key deliverables
- Champion best practice in business analysis, agile delivery, and financial services
- Actively leverage AI tools in day-to-day analysis work — including using AI assistants for documentation drafting, requirements synthesis, and process modelling — and encourage adoption across the team
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to the development of BA standards across the function
Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
Process Analysis & Improvement
Agile Delivery Support
Stakeholder Engagement
Continuous Improvement
Experience
- Experience as a Technical Business Analyst, ideally within financial services or fintech
- Demonstrable experience working within agile cross-functional delivery teams
- Strong understanding of UK financial planning processes, including advice suitability, fact-finding, and client onboarding
- Experience with wealth management platforms and advice technology is highly desirable
- Practical experience using AI tools to improve personal productivity and inform solution design
- Working knowledge of core technical concepts including RESTful APIs, data integration patterns, and system authentication methods
Skills
- Expert-level ability to produce clear, structured requirements documentation and process maps
- Proficient in agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all levels
- SQL proficiency is a plus
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field preferred
- BCS, IIBA (CBAP), or equivalent BA certification is a plus
Skills Required
- Experience as a Technical Business Analyst, ideally within financial services or fintech
- Experience with wealth management platforms and advice technology
- Strong understanding of UK financial planning processes
- Proficient in agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps
- Practical experience using AI tools to improve personal productivity
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field preferred
What We Do
Titan is a discretionary fund management / wealth and asset management business. Targeting £50 billion in assets under administration over the next three to five years and assets under management of £40 billion, Titan aims to bring high-quality execution and administration to the asset and wealth management sector. Titan provides execution, custody, clearing and wealth management services to small and medium sized broker dealers, proprietary traders, intermediaries, family offices and wealth managers and platform services, custody and investment solutions to financial advisors, family offices, retail clients and institutions via a network of trusted intermediaries.







