Business Analyst

LONDON MARKET INSURANCE EXPERIENCE IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY

City of London - hybrid - 2 days a week in office

My client is building a team for Global Policy Admin inception.
Rolling 6 month contract, outside IR35

DATA --- PAS --- POLICY ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM --- GUIDEWIRE

Key Relationships: Delivery Team Members, CDO, Data Leadership Team, Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data architects, Technology Team, Underwriters, Claims Managers

• Support the Product Owners
• Support the Product Owners in ensuring completeness of the epics/stories and acceptance criteria (definition of done/definition of ready) to deliver Beazley benefit throughout the delivery cycles
• Support the product owners in the adherence to the agreed business design
• Ensure that quality standards are achieved throughout the build life cycle
• Participate and facilitate in design workshops and agile ceremonies such as sprint demos as part of the agreed ways of working

Key Responsibilities:

• Elicit, understand, challenge and translate the business value into requirements, creating appropriate user stories of the right quality at the right time.
• Analyse, document and challenge end to end business processes and customer journeys.
• Champion process improvement opportunities including associated costs and benefits.
• Ensure traceability of requirements and user stories throughout the entire product life cycle.
• Ensure alignment between requirements, user stories and test output, including managing User Acceptance Testing.
• As a member of the product team, be the link between the internal stakeholder, technical teams and any third-party regarding people, process and technology throughout the product life cycle, ensuring ownership of the shared outcome you are centred around.
• Aid stakeholders in understanding trade-offs and achieving consensus.
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture principles as well as any design principles and strategy decisions made within your product team or the platform ensuring guidance is sought if necessary.
• Proactively monitor and communicate industry, functional, and technology trends to stakeholders as well a coach them as to how best harness these to drive business value.
• Work closely with the Product Manager to ensure that any user story is detailed, thorough and ready for development, owning the story from conception to final delivery of value.
• Ensure that all relevant staff receive clear and frequent updates regarding business analytical tasks and progress as necessary.
• Adopt a data driven approach in all activities, not only when giving an opinion or arguing a point but being a guardian for how data flows through the organisation and how it must be respected as a key performance driver.
• Build a relationship with your Product Owner, understand their business and challenges.

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience within the Financial Services sector, including the London Market and Commercial Insurance.
• Translation of overall product vision to tangible requirements and deliverables
• Strong communication and relationship skills
• Strong agile/BA methodology background
• Support for Product Leads in a financial services environment
• Management and traceability of OKRs to organisational value and benefit
• Agile environment
• Working with teams located across multiple time zones
• Data flow & contract analysis and definition
• Skilled in the analysis and documentation of complex business processes.
• Experience with multiple methods for the elicitation, validation, and documentation of requirements for complex Information Systems
• Exposure to a wide range of complex Information Systems across a global enterprise.
• Experience working with global product teams, software providers, and outsourcers.
• End to end experience of the product life cycle over numerous medium and large-scale projects.
• Desire to be involved in continuously improving Change Delivery governance processes.
• Broad understanding of product delivery practices and management methodologies
• Able to communicate complex ideas, issues, and designs to varied audiences
• Experience in querying SQL
• Engineering Mind-set
• Data Driven