Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect

Aon; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the industry is seeking a Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect in London. This role involves shaping strategic decisions, enhancing processes, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders across global operations. The position offers flexibility in working styles and aims to empower employees while focusing on professional growth and well-being.

Benefits

Global Wellbeing Days

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible working solutions

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with structured problem solving and feasibility studies.
• Solid understanding of business analysis methodologies.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic projects and provide insights for business success.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive process improvements.
• Utilize advanced data analysis to influence decision-making.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Collaboration

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related field

Tools

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

MS Visio

Job description

Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect

Do you have a burning desire to grow beyond your current capability whilst delivering varied, quality business outcomes for business partners that appreciate you, and recognise the value of collaborative teamwork?

Do you want to part of a global team that is leading the highest priority initiatives for Human Capital?

With the flexibility to work both virtually and from an office closest to your home this career opportunity, expanding our team here at Aon could be the opportunity you have been looking for.

Aon is in the business of better decisions

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

As a Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping an organization's long-term vision and strategy by using data, research, and business analysis to identify opportunities, optimise processes, and support decision-making. The responsibilities of a Senior Business Analyst extend beyond basic analytical tasks and involve leading high-impact projects, providing strategic insights, and working closely with key partners to drive business success. Senior Business Analyst are typically responsible for, but not limited to:

• Collaborate as part of project structures, as well as work independently, and engage with partners at all levels to drive outcomes, including the facilitation of business interviews and workshops using proven techniques.
• Preparing feasibility studies, defining minimal viable products (MVPs) and cost benefit analyses (jointly with PM / Finance).
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business processes and activities that influence and are influenced by the product or service, ensuring alignment with the broader strategy. Engage with partners to understand their perspectives, needs, processes, and constraints to facilitate effective and efficient business process changes
• Assist in defining success metrics and support mechanisms for supervising throughout the service life cycles.
• Facilitate the implementation of new business strategies, systems, or processes by providing training and/or procedure documentation to ensure that teams are well-prepared to implement changes.
• Proactively identify potential risks and issues related to business requirements, process changes or project lifecycle.
• Utilise skills and experience in the areas of structured problem solving, business analysis, data analytics, design thinking, lean process improvement and undertake process design and process re-engineering to support performance excellence in the organisation to identify strategic initiatives.
• Use advanced data analysis techniques to provide insights into business performance and volumes data to support the critical initiatives in prioritisation of specific lines of business, processes and trading partnerships
• Oversee adherence to governance, policy and compliance, collaborating with partners to implement and supervise best practices.

How this opportunity is different

The Human Capital Operations team plays an integral role in driving the strategic change agenda for Human Capital across all regions. The projects and partners are wide and varied. This role will be a critical contributor to driving process and technology changes across our diverse and complex business and operations by partnering with our business stakeholders and influencing desired outcomes.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Excellent communicator
• Initiates, grows and maintains strong working relationships at all levels.
• Adapts' content, style and level of detail of written and verbal communications to fit numerous, diverse audiences
• Superb communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.

Critical thinker

• Understands, articulates and translates business problems to define clear activities which result in desired solutions
• Effective in identifying problems, performing analysis to determine root causes
• Conducts feasibility studies with independence, open-mindedness incorporating business case and impact assessment to enable form opinions and present recommendations

Technical competency

• Solid understanding of analysis methodologies and development life cycles and an understanding of the fundamental analysis process and demonstrates a pragmatic application of these, appropriate to a given audience and/or situation
• Analyses the structure of the business, its goals and how process, technology and people influence current performance
• Identifies problems, threats and opportunities within a business, supported by data analysis to substantiate the magnitude and trend of the problem
• Practical broking knowledge, understanding of core Human Capital areas (Health, Wealth, Talent)
• Excellent knowledge of technology and standard desk top packages: MS/Excel, MS/Word, MS/PowerPoint, MS/Visio

Adaptable

• Learns business concepts quickly
• Takes on additional responsibilities to ensure success of the project
• Formulates ways for businesses to improve operational efficiency, reduce operational risk, reduce expenses, enable scalable growth

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email [e-mail]

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Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect

Do you have a burning desire to grow beyond your current capability whilst delivering varied, quality business outcomes for business partners that appreciate you, and recognise the value of collaborative teamwork?

Do you want to part of a global team that is leading the highest priority initiatives for Human Capital?

With the flexibility to work both virtually and from an office closest to your home this career opportunity, expanding our team here at Aon could be the opportunity you have been looking for.

Aon is in the business of better decisions

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

As a Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping an organization's long-term vision and strategy by using data, research, and business analysis to identify opportunities, optimise processes, and support decision-making. The responsibilities of a Senior Business Analyst extend beyond basic analytical tasks and involve leading high-impact projects, providing strategic insights, and working closely with key partners to drive business success. Senior Business Analyst are typically responsible for, but not limited to:

• Collaborate as part of project structures, as well as work independently, and engage with partners at all levels to drive outcomes, including the facilitation of business interviews and workshops using proven techniques.
• Preparing feasibility studies, defining minimal viable products (MVPs) and cost benefit analyses (jointly with PM / Finance).
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business processes and activities that influence and are influenced by the product or service, ensuring alignment with the broader strategy. Engage with partners to understand their perspectives, needs, processes, and constraints to facilitate effective and efficient business process changes
• Assist in defining success metrics and support mechanisms for supervising throughout the service life cycles.
• Facilitate the implementation of new business strategies, systems, or processes by providing training and/or procedure documentation to ensure that teams are well-prepared to implement changes.
• Proactively identify potential risks and issues related to business requirements, process changes or project lifecycle.
• Utilise skills and experience in the areas of structured problem solving, business analysis, data analytics, design thinking, lean process improvement and undertake process design and process re-engineering to support performance excellence in the organisation to identify strategic initiatives.
• Use advanced data analysis techniques to provide insights into business performance and volumes data to support the critical initiatives in prioritisation of specific lines of business, processes and trading partnerships
• Oversee adherence to governance, policy and compliance, collaborating with partners to implement and supervise best practices.

How this opportunity is different

The Human Capital Operations team plays an integral role in driving the strategic change agenda for Human Capital across all regions. The projects and partners are wide and varied. This role will be a critical contributor to driving process and technology changes across our diverse and complex business and operations by partnering with our business stakeholders and influencing desired outcomes.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Excellent communicator
• Initiates, grows and maintains strong working relationships at all levels.
• Adapts' content, style and level of detail of written and verbal communications to fit numerous, diverse audiences
• Superb communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.

Critical thinker

• Understands, articulates and translates business problems to define clear activities which result in desired solutions
• Effective in identifying problems, performing analysis to determine root causes
• Conducts feasibility studies with independence, open-mindedness incorporating business case and impact assessment to enable form opinions and present recommendations

Technical competency

• Solid understanding of analysis methodologies and development life cycles and an understanding of the fundamental analysis process and demonstrates a pragmatic application of these, appropriate to a given audience and/or situation
• Analyses the structure of the business, its goals and how process, technology and people influence current performance
• Identifies problems, threats and opportunities within a business, supported by data analysis to substantiate the magnitude and trend of the problem
• Practical broking knowledge, understanding of core Human Capital areas (Health, Wealth, Talent)
• Excellent knowledge of technology and standard desk top packages: MS/Excel, MS/Word, MS/PowerPoint, MS/Visio

Adaptable

• Learns business concepts quickly
• Takes on additional responsibilities to ensure success of the project
• Formulates ways for businesses to improve operational efficiency, reduce operational risk, reduce expenses, enable scalable growth

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email [e-mail]

#LI-JK1

#LI-HYBRID