Business Data Analyst (12 month FTC)

Pacific Life Re; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Data Analyst for a 12-month fixed-term contract. In this pivotal role, you will drive the migration and testing of insurance assumptions into an innovative tool, ensuring data accuracy and compliance. You will collaborate with global teams, enhancing data environments and reporting outputs. The company values work-life balance and offers a supportive culture with numerous employee benefits. If you are passionate about data and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Subsidised Gym Membership

Private Medical Insurance

Season Ticket Loan

Eye Care

Employee Assistance Programme

Group Income Protection

Wellness Benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Business Analyst or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and data transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead data migration and ensure seamless integration into the new system.
• Develop and maintain data lineage documentation for accuracy and compliance.

Skills

Data Analysis

SQL

Communication Skills

Data Transformation

R Programming

Insurance Industry Knowledge

Job description

Job Title

Business Data Analyst (12 month FTC)

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Data Analyst to play a crucial role in migrating and testing our insurance assumptions into our innovative assumption management tool, Harmony. As we expand our support across Australia and North America, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring seamless integration and transformation of data.

Project Harmony has revolutionized the management of insurance assumptions across the Actuarial teams in Europe and Asia. You'll lead the design and delivery of data migration, and building essential tools for any relevant data transformations, ensuring Harmony's consistent adoption.

Reporting to the Associate Vice President, R&D, you'll collaborate closely with technology and business units across our global operations, ensuring all requirements are met and delivering data environments and reporting outputs.

Role Responsibilities

• Identify, understand, develop, and validate business needs from a user perspective, including local Business Unit specific needs and global functional needs.
• Perform in-depth analysis of the existing data model to inform the design and development of assumptions in the new database.
• Develop and maintain data lineage documentation to ensure data accuracy, traceability, supporting compliance with industry regulations, data users and data governance activities.
• Endorse business requirements with an emphasis on collaboration, delivery, and a focus on the strategic goals of the project and the business.
• Take a lead role in the project throughout the full project lifecycle from definition of business needs through to solution delivery.
• Build strong working relationships with business stakeholders, technology and Actuarial Systems teams, enabling effective collaboration and alignment.
• Support testing and validation activities within data related projects and initiatives.
• Collating, reviewing, and updating process and technology documentation to reflect changes in business processes and technology.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in the market as a Data Business Analyst, Data Analyst or similar role.
• Experience working on a Data Transformation project, delivering an ingestion, reporting and warehouse capability is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in SQL for querying and analysing databases, translating outputs into actionable insights.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.
• Knowledge of reinsurance or insurance industry concepts is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills enabling efficient interaction and collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Takes responsibility for the quality, completeness, and accuracy of own work and that of the team under them.
• Able to prioritise competing requests and deadlines.
• Experience with R would be beneficial.

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)

• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Private Medical Insurance
• Season Ticket Loan
• Eye Care
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Group Income Protection
• Wellness Benefits

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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