Business Analyst Entry Level
1. Provide Business Analysis services to key stakeholders across NFU Mutual.
2. Join as we as we implement high-profile change initiatives across our business
3. Hybrid 80% homeworking available and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon.
About the role
We’re looking for a Business Analyst to join our Business Analysis Services team and support a wide range of business change initiatives across NFU Mutual. As part of this growing team, you’ll help deliver meaningful, customer-focused improvements by supporting experienced Business Analysts and contributing to key projects across the organisation.
You’ll gain exposure to change programmes covering areas such as digital customer journeys, finance, insurance policy systems, and regulatory change. This is an excellent development opportunity for someone looking to build a long-term career in business analysis.
As a Business Analyst, you’ll play a key role in helping capture, analyse and document business needs. You’ll support communication between stakeholders and technical teams, helping ensure that requirements are clearly documented, understood, and aligned to business outcomes. You’ll learn how change is delivered using both Agile and waterfall methodologies while working closely with Developers, Testers, and Project Managers.
About you
As a Business Analyst, you bring a naturally inquisitive mindset that drives you to explore problems deeply and continually develop your professional skills. Your strong attention to detail ensures accuracy in your work, helping you produce clear and reliable insights. You value teamwork and enjoy collaborating with others to achieve shared goals, contributing positively to group discussions and problem solving. Confident in engaging with stakeholders, you build constructive relationships and communicate effectively to understand their needs and support well informed decision making. Together, these strengths position you to add real value in a growing analytical role.
You’ll also have all or some of the following:
4. Understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle (iterative and waterfall methodologies),
5. Process documentation and engineering (UML and/or BPMN notations) desirable,
6. Requirements elicitation and management (functional and non-functional) desirable,
7. Experience of Agile methodologies,
8. Experience of using application Lifecycle management software such as Azure DevOps desirable,
9. Relevant qualifications/ apprenticeship in business analysis (highly desirable).
At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.
We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
10. Salary - £30,000 - £45,000 - depending on experience
11. Annual bonus (up to 10% of salary)
12. Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
13. 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
14. A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
15. Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
16. £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
17. Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
18. Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
19. Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
20. Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
21. Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
22. Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
23. Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility
Working at NFU Mutual
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.
Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.
Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.