Portfolio Lead Business Analyst - Investment & Operations

M&G plc; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in London is seeking a Portfolio Lead Business Analyst to lead a team and manage a diverse portfolio of projects. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience in asset management, and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing teams and delivering strategic business objectives. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive workplace culture

Support for employees with disabilities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing and developing others.
• Highly experienced BA within Asset Management required.
• Proactive and delivery focused with excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5-10 business analysts.
• Partner with programme leads for quality and consistency.
• Conduct business analysis and feasibility assessments.
• Drive consistency across Asset Management analysis community.
• Engage with key stakeholders for feedback on change.

Skills

Defining target operating models

Managing and coaching business analyst resources

Engaging technology stakeholders

Driving strategic requirements definition

Strong facilitation skills

Effective communication

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Identifying benefits

Understanding asset classes

Job description

Overview

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Investment and Operations Change and Technology team provides strategic change and technology solutions to support investment performance, enhance client outcomes, and improve operational efficiency. The type of change demand ranges from incremental business-as-usual changes, through to large-scale transformation initiatives.

The Portfolio Lead Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in driving the success of the Investment and Operations team by leading the analysis and management of a diverse portfolio of projects. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Leading a team of 5-10 business analysts, continually developing talent and improving performance to ensure the function is high performing.
• Programme Partnership: Partner with programme leads to ensure the quality and consistency of the analysis completed within their portfolios and taking a proactive approach to workforce development to ensure that the aligned analysts are equipped to support the strategic change roadmap.
• Player/Manager role: Alongside their leadership duties, the role holder will conduct business analysis activities. Primarily, this will be a mix of business capability assessment, target operating model design, and feasibility assessments - to support the development of business cases, solution and delivery options, and creation of recommendation and option papers.
• Community of Practice: Work alongside the other Portfolio Lead Business Analysts to drive consistency, collaboration and improvements across the whole Asset Management Business Analysis community, leveraging best practice and industry standards to enhance business outcome delivery and employee engagement.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the Investment and Operations functions, seeking direct feedback from the recipients of change, and improving the ability to influence.

Key Skills & Competencies

• A proven ability to define target operating models, conduct business capability and feasibility assessments.
• Ability to manage and coach business analyst resources
• Ability to engage both business and technology stakeholders, to C-suite and executive level.
• Ability to drive the strategic business and technical requirements definition across large projects and programmes.
• Strong facilitation skills to elicit information from key stakeholders internally and externally.
• Ability to tailor and present complex data to different stakeholders.
• Confident and effective communicator (both written and verbal) across all levels of the organisation.
• Passionate about developing a work environment that embraces and values diversity.
• Deep understanding of business analysis tools, techniques and standards to drive the highest quality user documentation, impact assessments and cost benefits analysis.
• Proven and demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills essential, with the ability to think laterally, challenge ideas and generate creative solutions.
• Ability to identify benefits and support their realisation.
• Ability to align business solution outcomes to overall corporate strategy requirements.
• Support the system training and change management strategy.
• A good understanding of a broad range of asset classes (ideally across Public and Private Assets), along with middle and back-office operations.

Experience

• Experience in managing and developing others
• Highly experienced BA with proven track record within Asset Management (Private Markets experience desired)
• Proactive and delivery focused with excellent communication skills.
• Transformation and project delivery experience

Work Level

Manager or Expert

Recruiter

Sarah Hawkins

Location

10 Fenchurch Avenue, London (minimum 2 days per week in office)

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions. Being a Disability Confident Leader means that candidates who meet the minimum criteria of a job, will be offered an interview if they \'opt in\' to the scheme when applying.

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