Business Analyst
Exceptional salary + competitive benefits package
Manchester
Hybrid - 2 days a week on site
A global insurance organisation, who has spent the last 2 years building a brand new Manchester office to complement their London arm, are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join the Change Team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
You will be responsible for supporting the successful delivery of key business initiatives, working across a wide range of change projects including regulatory, operating model, and technology transformations. This role will involve working with stakeholders across the organisation to define requirements, analyse processes, assess solutions, and support live projects from ideation through to implementation.
Key Responsibilities:
* Work closely with business stakeholders to define requirements using workshops and interviews
* Translate requirements into user stories and define acceptance criteria
* Document as-is processes and design to-be processes (e.g. process maps, flow charts, data flow diagrams)
* Produce business cases, project plans, KPIs, and system impact assessments
* Analyse and configure system changes, considering reporting and analytics impacts
* Contribute to the testing of captured and agreed requirements
* Support projects through the full lifecycle, partnering with Change, Technology, Data, and wider business teams
* Analyse and assess the success of implemented solutions
* Ensure accuracy and rigour across all analysis, lifting the benchmark across the business
What do I need to be successful?
* Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst within the London Insurance Market or, at minimum, financial services
* Proven experience of project/programme implementation, software delivery, and business process re-engineering (Agile preferred)
* Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and influencing skills
* Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking ability
* Experience eliciting and documenting requirements, as-is and to-be processes
* Curious, detail-oriented, and able to consider the bigger picture including dependencies and crossovers between initiatives
* A self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaboratively
To be eligible, you must have insurance sector experience.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.