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Job Title - Senior Business Analyst
Contract: 9 months
Location: London
Rate: 700 - Umbrella company
Job Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in the London Insurance Market. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical capabilities, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to drive business transformation through data-driven insights and process optimisation.
Core Responsibilities:
- Provide your expertise knowledge and challenge SMEs and Business colleagues to driving new thinking.
- Collaborate as part of the programme structures, workstreams, as well as work independently, and engage with stakeholders at all levels to drive outcomes.
- Utilise your skills and experience in the areas of structured problem solving, business analysis, data analytics, design thinking, lean process improvement and undertake process design and process re-engineering to support performance excellence in the organisation to identify strategic initiatives.
- Use advanced data analysis techniques to provide insights into business performance and volumes data to support the strategic initiatives in prioritisation of specific lines of business, processes and trading partnerships
- Collaborate with policy, business, and technology stakeholders to deliver business requirements that drive changes in business processes, policies, or systems.
- Assist in defining success metrics and support mechanisms for monitoring throughout the service life cycles.
- Facilitate the implementation of new business strategies, systems, or processes by providing training and/or procedure documentation to ensure that teams are well-prepared to execute changes.
- Proactively identify potential risks and issues related to business requirements, process changes or project lifecycle.
- Provide expertise as an experienced practitioner and mentor within the Business Analyst community, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the efforts of multiple Business Analysts.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Insurance Experience
- Detailed experience of the London Market is critical to success in this role.
- Detailed understanding of both the Broker and Carrier placement journeys is required.
- Excellent communicator
- Initiates, grows and maintains strong working relationships at all levels including business leaders, subject matter experts and other key stakeholders across the business.
- Adapts content, style and level of detail of written and verbal communications to fit numerous, diverse audiences, selecting the most effective method in each case
- Critical thinker
- Understands, articulates and translates complex business problems to define clear activities which result in desired solutions
- Effective in identifying problems, performing analysis to determine root causes
- Persuades internal and external stakeholders of the benefits or downsides of new technology or strategies
- Technical competency
- Solid understanding of analysis methodologies and development life cycles and an understanding of the fundamental analysis process and demonstrates a pragmatic application of these, appropriate to a given audience and/or situation
- Analyses the structure of the business, its goals and how process, technology and people influence current performance
- Independent
- Self-motivated and organised
- Manages own time to ensure task are completed
- Responsible for own learning
