Business Analyst

Canopius; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to join their Change Team. This exciting role involves collaborating with various teams to analyze and document business processes, focusing on data, reporting, and analytics. You'll engage with stakeholders, translating their needs into actionable user stories while ensuring the accuracy of all analyses. This position offers the opportunity to work on transformative projects within the financial services sector, providing a platform for your skills to shine and make a significant impact. If you're detail-oriented and thrive in dynamic environments, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in Business Analyst role in London Insurance market or financial services.
• Interest in data, reporting, and analytics with SQL querying experience.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of business initiatives through analysis and documentation.
• Work with stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into user stories.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Management

SQL

Project Management

Agile Methodologies

Critical Thinking

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Education

BA Diploma

Equivalent Experience

Tools

Data Flow Diagrams

Business Process Maps

Job description

A Business Analyst is required to join the Change Team on a permanent basis. The Change Team at Canopius is responsible for co-ordinating, monitoring and executing a clearly defined Change Programme that works in alignment with the strategic goals and objectives of the business.

Reporting into the Business Analyst Manager, the Business Analyst plays an important role in supporting the successful delivery of key business initiatives. This incorporates analysing and documenting business cases, current business processes and systems, assessing proposed solutions and delivering live projects.This role has a particular focus on data, reporting and analytics, working closely with the Canopius Data Team.

You will work on data-focused projects or programmes across the company's entire Change portfolio incorporating regulatory, operating model and technology transformations for a major Lloyd’s Managing Agent.

You will:

• Interact primarily with the Data team on a range of data, reporting and analytics-led activity
• Work closely with business stakeholders to define their requirements through a variety of techniques, such as workshops and interviews
• Translate requirements into user stories and define acceptance criteria
• Document ‘as-is’ processes, e.g. data flow diagrams, flow charts, business process maps
• Plan, design and document ‘to-be’ processes, e.g. data flow diagrams, business process maps
• Create business cases and recommendations to improve and support business activities including the exploration of potential solutions
• Produce business plans, project plans, key performance indicators and system impacts
• Analyse and configure system changes and consider data, reporting and analytics impacts
• Contribute to the testing of captured and agreed requirements
• Support the project through its lifecycle from ideation to implementation, working closely with partners across our Change, Technology and Data teams and the wider organisation
• Analyse and assess the success of implemented solutions
• Ensure the accuracy and rigour of all analysis, lifting the benchmark across the business
• Must have demonstrable experience of working in a Business Analyst role in the London Insurance market or, at a minimum, within financial services
• Interest in data, reporting and analytics, with experience in database querying via SQL or similar tools, or in gathering requirements for data-led initiatives, is desirable
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, a positive ‘can-do’ attitude and the ability to confidently collaborate with a variety of stakeholders at all levels
• Proven experience of project/programme implementation, software delivery and business process re-engineering, preferably including experience in an Agile environment
• Core Business Analyst skills including stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing, critical thinking, problem solving and prioritisation
• Curious and detail-orientated
• Able to work in a complex, dynamic environment and to consider the bigger picture, including dependencies and crossover between initiatives
• Self-starter, an ability to use own initiative and to work independently where required
• BA Diploma or proven equivalent experience