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Business Analyst
Birmingham
LONDON MARKET INSURANCE EXPERIENCE IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
Birmingham - hybrid - 2 days a week in office
My client is building a team for Global Policy Admin inception.Rolling 6 month contract, outside IR35
DATA --- PAS --- POLICY ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM --- GUIDEWIRE
Key Relationships: Delivery Team Members, CDO, Data Leadership Team, Data Owners, Data Stewards,
Data architects, Technology Team, Underwriters, Claims Managers
- Support the Product Owners
- Support the Product Owners in ensuring completeness of the epics/stories and acceptance criteria (definition of done/definition of ready) to deliver Beazley benefit throughout the delivery cycles
- Support the product owners in the adherence to the agreed business design
- Ensure that quality standards are achieved throughout the build lifecycle
- Participate and facilitate in design workshops and agile ceremonies such as sprint demos as part of the agreed ways of working
Key Responsibilities:
- Elicit, understand, challenge and translate the business value into requirements, creating appropriate user stories of the right quality at the right time.
- Analyse, document and challenge end to end business processes and customer journeys.
- Champion process improvement opportunities including associated costs and benefits.
- Ensure traceability of requirements and user stories throughout the entire product lifecycle.
- Ensure alignment between requirements, user stories and test output, including managing User Acceptance Testing.
- As a member of the product team, be the link between the internal stakeholder, technical teams and any third-party regarding people, process and technology throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring ownership of the shared outcome you are centred around.
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- Aid stakeholders in understanding trade-offs and achieving consensus.
- Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture principles as well as any design principles and strategy decisions made within your product team or the platform ensuring guidance is sought if necessary.
- Proactively monitor and communicate industry, functional, and technology trends to stakeholders as well a coach them as to how best harness these to drive business value.
- Ensure that all relevant staff receive clear and frequent updates regarding business analytical tasks and progress as necessary.
- Adopt a data driven approach in all activities, not only when giving an opinion or arguing a point but being a guardian for how data flows through the organisation and how it must be respected as a key performance driver.
- Build a relationship with your Product Owner, understand their business and challenges.
Knowledge and Experience
- Extensive experience within the Financial Services sector, including the London Market and Commercial Insurance.
- Translation of overall product vision to tangible requirements and deliverables
- Strong communication and relationship skills
- Strong agile/BA methodology background
- Support for Product Leads in a financial services environment
- Management and traceability of OKRs to organisational value and benefit
- Agile environment
- Working with teams located across multiple time zones
- Data flow & contract analysis and definition
- Skilled in the analysis and documentation of complex business processes.
- Experience with multiple methods for the elicitation, validation, and documentation of requirements for complex Information Systems
- Exposure to a wide range of complex Information Systems across a global enterprise.
- Experience working with global product teams, software providers, and outsourcers.
- End to end experience of the product lifecycle over numerous medium and large-scale projects.
- Desire to be involved in continuously improving Change Delivery governance processes.
- Broad understanding of product delivery practices and management methodologies
- Able to communicate complex ideas, issues, and designs to varied audiences
- Experience in querying SQL
- Engineering Mind-set
- Data Driven
