Job Title: Finance Business Analyst – OML
Organisation: UAP Old Mutual Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
UAP Old Mutual Uganda is owned by UAP Old Mutual Group, a subsidiary of Old Mutual Limited (OML). The Group employs 27 000 people, operates in 14 countries and is listed on five stock exchanges.
Job Summary: The role requires agile expertise in business analysis, change readiness, testing execution, and post–go‐live support. The successful candidate will facilitate solution design, requirements gathering, stakeholder alignment, and end‐to‐end implementation across multiple business teams and regions.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Triaging and prioritizing business requests and enhancements.
- Managing the impact of changes and overseeing user readiness and training.
- Driving the successful embedment of solutions into Business‐as‐Usual (BAU).
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills are essential for coordinating activities across diverse business units, ensuring strategic alignment and sustainable outcomes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Business Needs Assessment & Prioritization
- Analyze and triage incoming requests or enhancements based on relevance, urgency, and strategic impact.
- Collaborate with finance and insurance stakeholders to explore and evaluate different solution pathways, balancing constraints (time, cost, risk).
Solution Design & Collaboration
- Work with technical teams, solution architects, and other business analysts to define solution approaches (process changes, system modifications, or both).
- Ensure that testing methodologies (user acceptance testing, integration testing, etc.) are aligned with business goals and thoroughly validated before deployment.
Requirements Elicitation & Documentation
- Conduct workshops with cross‐functional teams (including multiple geographies) to gather comprehensive requirements.
- Document requirements in sufficient detail (e.g., annotated process flows, data relationships, system interaction diagrams, UML diagrams) to guide solution design.
- Maintain strict traceability from initial request through to final deliverable.
Change Readiness & Stakeholder Engagement
- Facilitate change impact analyses and assist business owners with risk mitigation plans.
- Develop or coordinate training materials, user communications, and support plans to ensure a high level of user readiness prior to go‐live.
- Proactively address and manage any anticipated or persistent resistance to change.
Governance & Compliance
- Enforce governance throughout the requirements lifecycle and implementation process, ensuring stakeholder sign‐offs and proper storage of documentation.
- Ensure alignment with relevant financial regulations and corporate finance standards, especially in an insurance context.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Analytics, or a similar field.
- Professional BA Certification (e.g., IIBA, CBAP) or a recognized Business Analysis credential.
- Experience with ITIL, CMMI, PMI, or similar frameworks for project governance.
- Professional qualification in financial accounting (e.g., ACCA, CIMA) is an added advantage.
Industry & Functional Expertise
- Proven Financial Services industry experience (specifically Insurance and/or Investments).
- Strong understanding of Corporate Finance business processes, principles, and data.
- Seeking a Senior Finance Business Analyst with 10+ years of overall experience, including at least 6+ years in Finance and Insurance.
Business Analysis Skills
- Competency in analytical problem solving, stakeholder collaboration, and requirements documentation.
- Demonstrable expertise in Business Analysis methodologies & tools (e.g., BPMN, UML).
- Experience with testing methodology, including user acceptance testing and test automation, is advantageous.
General Skills
- Excellent communication skills – adept at bridging business and technical language.
- Time management – able to handle multiple parallel requests.
- Relationship management – strong collaborator, effective at building cross‐functional partnerships.
- Business awareness – understands financial/insurance domain context and constraints.
- Ownership & accountability – drives deliverables end‐to‐end.
- Technical knowledge – comfortable mapping requirements into technical solutions.
- Client focus – ensures delivered solutions meet user needs and improve outcomes.
- Strategic & innovative thinking – proposes creative solutions and fosters an environment of continuous improvement.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 11th May 2026
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: no experience