Lead Business Analyst

2 weeks ago

London, UK, United Kingdom Venquis Full time

Senior Business Analyst - Insurance – UK Business Solutions and Transformation

Leading London Market Insurance company, actively looking for a Senior Business Analyst with experience within London Insurance Market, to join them on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a team of business analysts, and providing support to the wider business with the development of business cases, the gathering of business requirements, design, build, testing, training and implementation of all business changes across a range of projects and business functions.

The successful candidate will be report to the VP Head of Change Management, UK and directly support the UK Change Management Project Managers.


Responsibilities include:

Manage, lead and develop a small team of business analysts

Develop and take ownership of the business analysis approach and format, as part of the overall project governance framework

Engage and work closely with business project managers on various projects stemming from the approved project pipeline

Maintain Programme and project document repository with necessary artefacts

Be the conduit between the business and the IT group to develop business cases, cost benefit analysis and high-level requirements

Work closely with key stakeholders to elicit business requirements using document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, task and workflow analysis.

Work closely with the Programme/project manager to deliver consistent, robust and effective documentation, governance, control and reporting

Reporting regularly to senior management.

Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal stakeholders to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver the required artifacts as needed including Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document) & Process flow diagrams.

Create documents using the Microsoft Office suite of products for project management including Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Visio.

Assist in testing of new/upgraded system implementations working with internal stakeholders in other departments as well as the Operations team including UW Management, UW Controls & our Data/MI team.

Contribution to the packs created for working groups, steering groups and monthly or quarterly management meetings, as necessary.

Provide insight into budgeting requirements on an annual basis

Other ad hoc support to the Head of Change Management, UK.


Desired Skills & Experience

  • 7+ years’ experience either working as a business analyst for one or more London Market carriers
  • BA qualification or formal training in the last 5 years
  • Experience of Agile delivery
  • Be able to demonstrate a deep & wide-ranging understanding of both London Market and regional insurance processes
  • Experience in mapping or designing business processes AS IS and TO BE
  • Proficient Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Visio
  • Demonstrate a history of team management capabilities and leadership
  • Excellent requirements capabilities for both Technology and Process change.
  • Excellent requirements documenting capabilities for both technology and process change
  • Be confident gathering requirements for both Technology and Process change.
  • Experience in holding workshops, requirements gathering and documentation
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills


Personal Attributes:

Strong people management and communication skills

Naturally curious, looking to grow a strong career with a great employer.

Logical, structured thought processes

Methodical and precise

Good problem solver

A good eye for detail

Understand impact of system or process changes and considering future use/demand

Self-organised and motivated

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