Senior Business Analyst - Specialty Insurance

  • Job Reference: 647042
  • Date Posted: 23 September 2024
  • Recruiter: ShareForce
  • Location: United Kingdom - All Regions
  • Salary: £75,000 to £85,000
  • Bonus/Benefits: £75,000-£85,000
  • Sector: IT and Telecomms
  • Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst with an established background in insurance, to play a pivotal role in the transformation of Insurance services of a leading specialty insurance firm in the City. The successful candidate will have a compelling background working as the interface between business users and technical development teams and be passionate about realising business change through digital transformation.
 
Responsibilities
  • Build close and lasting relationships with business users, business change, and IT teams to achieve company technology goals.
  • Work hand in hand with end users to build comprehensive and concise documentation for change proposals and new initiatives, ensuring full traceability back to the businesses processes.
  • Lead the gathering of requirements, run workshops/meetings with key stakeholders and third-party vendors to ensure outcomes are well defined and understood.
  • Document As Is / To Be of business processes to identify future possibility for business change.
  • Be the interface between end users and technology teams to ensure accurate and timely development of technology changes / advancements.
  • Be a Product Owner for digital applications / services – accountable for the current running, backlog, optimisation and future state of the solution.
  • Be confident in challenging end users and stakeholders on ideas / proposals to achieve utmost clarity.
  • Ensure best practice and delivery of E2E business analysis services, as well as propose new ideas to Head of Business Change to enhance best practice.
Required Skills and Experience
  • Insurance domain knowledge, ideally with specific exposure to the London Insurance Market.
  • Strong Business Analysis experience, capable of delivering independent E2E BA services to drive digital transformation.
  • Experience working closely with business users, understanding their needs and exploring opportunities for business change through workshops, then seeing them through to delivery.
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills and fantastic relationship building skills; the successful candidate will be personable, dynamic and will be able to work effectively as part of a close-knit team, as well as independently.
  • Appreciation for technology and ability to work alongside development teams to achieve future state IT goals.
  • Previous experience acting as a Product Owner within a scaled agile environment.
  • Previous experience / exposure to low code application development solutions such as Pega, MS Power Platform or Salesforce.
  • A passion for transformational change in the insurance sector.
Additional Information
  • Location: Hybrid – 3 days on site in the City of London
  • Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 (based on experience) + bonus + excellent benefits package
  • All applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK