IT Business Analyst

Lockton; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An international insurance firm in Greater London is seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst to support various technology projects. The successful candidate will document and represent business requirements, engage with stakeholders, and drive process optimizations to ensure successful project outcomes. This is a full-time permanent role requiring a solid background in the insurance industry and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of the insurance/reinsurance industry.
• Experience as a high performing Business Analyst in technology environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Research business processes and produce reports with recommendations.
• Produce functional and non-functional requirements documentation.
• Support implementation and quality assurance activities.

Skills

Understanding of the insurance/reinsurance industry

Strong ability to analyse business needs

Effective communication skills

Project management ability

Business process analysis

Job description

Vacancy details

Lockton - Experienced Professional

Job Profile

Lockton Europe is building out a PMO team and requires the successful candidate to be able to help frame and mature the services/standards provided and act as an enabler, assisting the successful delivery of our project portfolio whilst providing our leaders with the insights and assurances they need to support successful delivery.

Title

IT Business Analyst

Description

Reporting to the Lead Business Analyst and working with senior stakeholders across various Divisions, the Business Analyst will fill a critical role within the organisation tasked with collecting, understanding, documenting, and representing business requirements for projects across the technology portfolio.

This is a very varied role, which will provide the opportunity to use existing skills and experience whilst acquiring new ones. The role holder will specifically support the Technology team on a variety of projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Researching business processes, creating reports with recommendations to management; identifying, understanding, developing and validating business needs
• Produce functional and non-functional requirements and supporting documentation
• Endorse business requirements with an emphasis on collaboration, delivery, and a focus on the tactical and/or strategic goals of the project and the business
• To review and identify opportunities to optimise current business capabilities and processes and drive efficiencies
• Take a lead role in the project throughout the full project lifecycle from definition of business needs through to solution fulfilling the defined requirements
• Support implementation and quality assurance activities to ensure solutions meet expectations and business requirements
• Analysing business structure to determine how it operates and determine its objectives
• Always having the business user and the experience of our customers/clients in mind
• Support the business throughout the project life cycle with emphasis on the testing phases
• Step into project management responsibilities when required, including planning, coordinating, and overseeing project delivery to ensure milestones and objectives are met, while maintaining effective communication with stakeholders and managing risks and issues.
• Be an active advocate for change and bring your knowledge of best practise in business analysis to help progress the team's continual improvement

Candidate Profile

Essential

• A solid understanding of the insurance/reinsurance industry
• Demonstrable experience as a high performing Business Analyst with experience in technology, digital, or transformation environments.
• Effective communicator with internal stakeholders (at all levels) in the business, understanding their needs
• Strong ability to analyse business needs and translate into business user requirements
• Skilled at performing business process and gap analysis with the ability to identify opportunities for process optimisation
• Proven ability to undertake project management activities as needed, demonstrating flexibility to lead projects, manage timelines, resources, and deliverables, and ensure successful project outcomes alongside core business analysis duties.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Flexible and adaptable with experience of working to tight/changing deadlines
• Delivery and detail focussed when implementing changes to support business requirements
• Can do attitude (no job is too small or too big) with the ability to work on your own or as part of a bigger team

Desirable

• London Market Broker experience
• Experience of acquisition, integrations or business transfers
• Experience of platform re-writes, integrations, automations and use of AI/(G)AI
• Experience of Target Operating Model design/rollout; system implementations; general business change

Scheduled

Full Time Permanent