
Senior Business Analyst
- Datchet, Berkshire
- £60,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Works 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.
- Applies and develops analysis ways of working to any piece of change, driving continuous improvement.
- Defining and implementing the business analysis approach to be applied, for the analysis activities required on the programme, project or initiative.
- Ensuring that all activities align with change governance and quality standards.
- Supports the development, systems testing, user acceptance testing and implementation of solutions by working closely with solution partners, suppliers, and business stakeholders.
- Mentors and coaches others in the business analysis profession.
- Learns from previous experience and understands how benefits have been delivered by participating in post-implementation reviews, lessons learned sessions and knowledge share/peer reviews.
- Makes a significant contribution to the continuous learning of the profession of the role.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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