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Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.\nJob Description\nBusiness Analyst (Pre-Sales Solution Support)\nLocation: Cape Town\nGet To Know Us:\nSS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.\n\nWhy You Will Love It Here!\nFlexibility: Hybrid Work Model\nYour Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University\nWork/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme\nYour Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff\nDiversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity\nTraining: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career\n\nWhat You Will Get To Do:\nThe successful candidate will perform a Business Analyst role with a pre-sales and solution support focus, working alongside sales, product and solution architecture colleagues to position the HiTrust transfer agency platform with prospective and existing clients.\nThe role will combine core business analysis - requirements elicitation, gap analysis and functional solution design - with hands-on demonstration and proof-of-concept work, translating client business requirements into credible, tailored solution narratives and system walkthroughs.\nThe successful candidate will also support delivery teams through implementation, ensuring continuity between what is demonstrated during the sales cycle and what is subsequently built.\nThe Key Responsibilities will include:\nReview, analyse and evaluate client and prospect business requirements against HiTrust platform capability, performing fit-gap analysis and identifying where requirements are met through configuration and where development is required.\nPrepare, configure and deliver tailored product demonstrations and proof-of-concept environments, using client-relevant data, fund structures and processing scenarios to evidence platform capability.\nAct as a subject-matter expert in client-facing sales meetings, workshops, due diligence sessions and site visits, presenting the solution and responding to functional and operational questioning with credibility.\nPropose and analyse solutions for client business problems, and author subject-matter content for RFI’s, RFP’s, due diligence questionnaires and solution proposals.\nMaintain and continuously improve the demonstration environment and supporting demo asset library, ensuring content remains aligned to current product releases and market requirements.\nDocument requirements, define scope and objectives, and write functional requirements and solution design documents to an auditable standard, ensuring pre-sales commitments are carried cleanly into delivery.\nFacilitate and lead workshops with the development team to review, optimise and finalise the solution. Play back the solution with the clients and secure sign-off.\nSupport scoping and estimation of prospective opportunities during the bid process.\nCollaborate in the planning, design, development and client deployments, including on-premise installations within client-managed infrastructure.\nExplore system solutions for existing and prospective clients to meet product, processing and regulatory requirements, and feed market and competitor insight back into the product roadmap.\nEnsure engagement and communication is maintained both internally and externally for the life of the projects through project status updates.\nWhat You Will Bring:\n\nConfident presentation and demonstration skills, with the ability to hold the attention of a senior client audience and adapt content and depth to the room.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving ability, with the capacity to decompose complex operational processes into clear, testable requirements.\nAbility to translate technical platform capability into clear business benefit, and to construct a persuasive solution narrative from a set of client requirements.\nExcellent written communication, with demonstrable experience producing functional specifications, solution documents, process flows and bid response content.\nUnderstanding of IT systems, databases and infrastructure involving the integration of multiple systems.\nWorking understanding of requirement management tools (JIRA, Confluence).\nComfortable working to bid deadlines across concurrent opportunities and managing competing priorities.\nPrior experience within mutual funds or investor servicing or transfer agency.\nAn excellent understanding of core mutual fund processes - transaction and dealing processing, distributions and reporting. In depth knowledge of mutual fund statements and operational reports.\nDemonstrable experience presenting or demonstrating software to client audiences, and contributing subject-matter content to RFI and RFP responses.\nExtensive experience in requirements elicitation and production of functional solution design documents.\nStrong experience facilitating and leading workshops with stakeholders to discuss business requirements and functional solutions.\n\nWe encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.\nThank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.\nUnless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.\nApplications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nSS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6773,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM)","Financial Software & Embedded Finance","Custody & Fund Administration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T06:26:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":82,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.815,"p_room":1,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ssc-technologies-business-analyst-pre-sales-solution-support","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ssc-technologies-business-analyst-pre-sales-solution-support.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T22:41:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8037,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6013},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6013"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-business-analyst-pre-sales-solution-support"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-business-analyst-pre-sales-solution-support"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-business-analyst-pre-sales-solution-support"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ssc-technologies-business-analyst-pre-sales-solution-support\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fssc-technologies-business-analyst-pre-sales-solution-support"}]}