Senior Business Analyst
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Senior Business Analyst
Department: Operations
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UK (London)
Description
Senior Business Analyst
London
Hybrid, two days in office
Permanent / full-time
We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd's, Europe and North America.
As we continue our incredible journey of growth, we are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the team, and play a crucial role in driving our digital transformation change projects, setting the foundation for the future. You will be responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams, eliciting requirements, managing backlogs and ensuring successful delivery of projects.
Responsibilities
• Lead on gathering business requirements: gathering, validating, and delivering detailed requirements documentation in support of project outcomes.
• Ability to gather requirements through different channels - conducting workshops, interviews, gathering data and information from documents and processes. Extracting information from use cases and scenarios.
• Thorough understanding the business, provide analysis on requirements, highlighting risks, assumptions, and dependencies. Translating business needs to appropriate requirements and subsequent solutions.
• Manage project backlogs, prioritize user stories, and facilitate sprint planning sessions using agile methodologies
• Work with the Change Management Team to build BA capability, including its processes and supporting the organization with adopting and using best practice.
• Facilitate requirements prioritisation, where required, with stakeholders.
• Ability to lead internal teams through ambiguity and create clear solutions and recommendations.
• Manage changes effectively through the use of change control processes and tools.
• Supporting any required IT related testing utilising best practice templates and methodologies
• Manage expectations and problem solving to establish relationships built on trust and delivery
Candidate requirements
• Right to work in this location
• Proven Business Analysis experience gained within the insurance or financial services industry (5-10 Years)
• A strong understanding of the insurance industry (Legacy Insurance desirable)
• Experience working on multiple complex IT and business change projects
• Strong communication skills and a proven ability to manage stakeholders at all levels
• Experience in gathering and documenting business requirements across a wide range topics and functions.
• Experience in developing business cases.
• Experience in documenting business requirements documents, functional/process documents, gap analysis documents, change request documents, Impact analysis documents, UAT and Test Plans.
• Ability to use modelling techniques such as UML or user stories
• Desirable experience in agile methodologies and ways of working.
• Ability to build and develop strong working relationships both internally and externally
• Experience in facilitating meetings and workshops with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to work with cross functional teams across multiple geographies
• Experience in project management skills to enable effective planning and tracking of workload
• Passionate about Business Analysis and the drive to develop and embed best practice to the organisation from the ground up
• Contributing positively to our culture and values.
Benefits
Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.
As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.
- Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.
Why join us?
At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.
To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.
We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.
Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:
• competitive salary & annual bonus
• a health & wellbeing subsidy (GBP 20 per month) (from Day 1)
• a generous pension (eligible after probationary period)
• private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)
• life assurance (from Day 1)
• income protection (from Day 1)
• 25 days annual leave (from Day 1)
• cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)
• season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)
• electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
• learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
• hybrid working
• employee socials and recognition programme