Senior Business Analyst- London Market

LGBT Great; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their dynamic EMEA Change Team. This role offers the chance to lead high-impact projects, utilizing data and business analysis to drive strategic decisions and optimize processes. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment, engaging with diverse partners to deliver quality outcomes. With the flexibility to work both virtually and on-site, this is an incredible opportunity for those looking to grow their careers in a supportive and inclusive atmosphere. If you are passionate about making impactful decisions and enhancing business performance, this role is for you!

Benefits

Global Wellbeing Days

Diverse Workforce

Flexible Working Solutions

Continuous Learning Opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong communication and presentation skills are essential for success.
• Experience in data analysis and business process improvement is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact projects and provide strategic insights to drive business success.
• Collaborate with partners to identify opportunities and optimize processes.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or Related Field

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Visio

Job description

Senior Business Analyst - London Market

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?

Are you interested in refining expanding your growing in your role as Senior Business Analyst as part of our diverse EMEA Change Team?

With the flexibility to work both virtually and from an office closest to your home, this career opportunity, expanding our high performing Change 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, you will play a critical role in shaping an organization's long-term vision and strategy by using data, research, and business analysis to find 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 Analysts 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).
• 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 pivotal initiatives.
• Working with 3rd party suppliers to support system configuration activities, including gathering requirements from key partners for configuration tasks, reviewing system specifications and ensuring signoff is achieved from SMEs.
• Use sophisticated 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.
• 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.
• Guide as an expert practitioner and mentor within the Business Analyst community, responsible for supervising and coordinating the efforts of multiple Business Analysts.
• Supervise adherence to governance, policy and compliance, collaborating with partners to implement and supervise best practices.

How this opportunity is different

Our EMEA Change Team serves all Solution Lines and all Regions in EMEA, so the projects and partners are wide and varied. If you enjoy learning about different commercial processes and products, then this role provides opportunity for both knowledge growth and career progression. Equally, if you prefer to specialise, this can be highlighted in 121’s with your line manager and resource allocation processes can be advised of preferences. Obviously operational need may override preference on occasion BUT Aon encourages colleagues to discuss their career aspirations and provides many opportunities for those that wish to stretch themselves.

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.
• Excellent knowledge of technology and standard desktop 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]