Business Analyst - 6 month FTC

AXA; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurance provider in the UK is seeking a Business Analyst to oversee end-to-end business analysis, ensuring requirements definition and functional design. This role involves working closely with teams to gather business requirements and champion them into delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Agile methodologies and business analysis frameworks, alongside a commitment to continuous learning. AXA offers competitive salaries and a robust benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Discretionary bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private medical cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Proven experience in defining end-to-end solutions, focusing on requirements and functional design.
• Confident in facilitating workshops and understanding stakeholder requirements.
• Expertise in using a business analysis and design framework.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all change requirements are defined and understood.
• Support business users in defining requirements over solutions.
• Review testing strategies to ensure solution delivery.

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements Definition

Stakeholder Engagement

Agile Methodologies

Waterfall Methodologies

Education

BCS BA foundation or practitioner level certification

Tools

Agile Backlogs

Miro

Job description

Reporting to an Assignment Manager, you'll undertake end‑to‑end business analysis ensuring coordination of impact assessments, requirements definition and functional design across systems, processes, people, data and journeys to ensure an end‑to‑end solution design is in place. As a Business Analyst, you'll be responsible for working closely with colleagues across teams to identify and document processes, lead workshops to gather and capture business requirements from a range of stakeholders and work within our governance cadence to champion and prioritise into delivery. At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means attendance at one of our office locations.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring all change requirements are defined end‑to‑end and that the impact on systems, people, processes, data and journeys is understood
• Influencing and supporting business users in defining requirements rather than solutions
• Managing the development, distribution and baseline approval of all communication related to end‑to‑end business requirements and functional design
• Overseeing requirements analysis and ensuring functionality is compliant with company standards, business and technical target architectures
• Reviewing testing strategies, plans, criteria and results to ensure delivery of end‑to‑end solutions
• Managing change in business requirements throughout the project, ensuring all change management activity takes place and impacts are fully documented and understood
• Working within business analysis practice, following a structured end‑to‑end business analysis and design framework which ensures appropriate decisions can be made regarding changes to systems, data requirements and processes and the impacts of doing so including EPIC and user story creation within agile teams

Qualifications

• BCS BA foundation or practitioner level certification
• Proven experience in defining end‑to‑end solutions, with a focus on requirements definition and functional design across various domains
• Experience with modern tooling such as Agile backlogs and Miro
• Confident facilitating workshops, understanding stakeholder requirements, identifying problems and collaborating with cross functional teams
• Proficient in Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies is preferred
• Expertise in utilising an end‑to‑end business analysis and design framework to guide decisions on system and process changes
• Commitment to continuous learning and adaptability
• As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

At AXA Health, we’re passionate about helping our members to put their health first, whether that’s individuals and families, small businesses, or huge corporates. From fast access to diagnosis and treatment, to guidance and tools that can help them manage their health every day, not just when there’s a problem, our members can be confident we’ll guide them, every step of the way.

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Discretionary company & performance‑based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 × annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts