Senior Business Analyst

Allianz; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company seeks a Senior Business Analyst to guide organizational change. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to define business visions and implementing thorough analyses and strategies. Proven experience in the insurance sector and strong communication skills are essential. This position offers hybrid working options, extensive development opportunities, and a range of flexible benefits, including annual bonuses and a contributory pension scheme.

Benefits

Flexible buy/sell holiday options

Hybrid working

Annual performance related bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Development days

Discounts on insurance products

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of the insurance industry including products and services.
• Extensive experience in high-complexity change initiatives.
• Ability to undertake business analysis in a multi-faceted change environment.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to develop business visions and strategies.
• Define and implement business analysis approaches.
• Support development, testing, and implementation of solutions.

Skills

Understanding of key drivers for change

Experience in the insurance industry

High degree of organisation

Excellent communication skills

Experience with different project methods

Ability to initiate change

Ability to work across functional domains

Job description

You will work across many functional domains, with stakeholders at many levels up to board level.

• Work with a series of stakeholders up to Exec and Board level in defining business visions and developing the strategies to meet these via strategic analyses, feasibility studies and business cases.
• Apply and develop analysis ways of working to any piece of change, driving continuous improvement.
• Define and implement the business analysis approach to be applied, for the analysis activities required on the programme, project or initiative.
• Ensure that all activities align with change governance and quality standards.
• Support the development, systems testing, user acceptance testing and implementation of solutions by working closely with solution partners, suppliers, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach others in the business analysis profession.
• Learn from previous experience and understand how benefits have been delivered by participating in post‑implementation reviews, lessons learned sessions and knowledge share / peer reviews.
• Make a significant contribution to the continuous learning of the profession of the role. At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer. We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success. We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
• As one of our Senior Business Analysts, you'll play a lead role in organisational change by using specialised business analysis, change management skills and disciplined business analysis approaches. This is achieved through repeated deliveries and/or specialist area of knowledge.
• Expertise in defining and leading business analysis approaches within Waterfall and Agile methodologies from change and systems development perspectives.
• Expertise in the application of recognised industry standard modelling techniques, including data modelling and BPMN.
• Experience and knowledge of change lifecycle concepts used to plan, develop, implement, operate and maintain change.

Essential Skills

• Understanding of key drivers for change.
• Experience or demonstrable knowledge of the insurance industry including products, services and differing business models.
• High degree of organisation, task planning and time management.
• Extensive experience of different project methods (often within the same initiative) and how these impact the work a business analyst carries out.
• Experience of working in a business analysis role on a number of high‑complexity change initiatives, where multi‑faceted change is being carried out across information, technology, people, organisation and process.
• Has an extensive appreciation of the wider field of IT systems (architecture, hardware and software), their use in relevant business processes and how they are implemented to meet business objectives.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written – and understanding of tools used to support change management and software development.
• Extensive experience of planning and facilitating workshops of large size and complexity.
• Is able to initiate medium to large pieces of change.
• Able to undertake business analysis in a multi‑faceted change environment, involving information, technology, people, process and organisation change.
• Able to work in any functional domain, rapidly gaining an understanding of the business area, stakeholders and business needs.

Desirable Skills

• Leadership, mentoring and coaching others within the profession.
• Experience influencing and managing stakeholders up to board level.
• Extensive experience working with remote / offshore / third party teams.

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training.

• Flexible buy / sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts

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