Senior Business Analyst

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Company Description

Legal & General looks after around 700,000 institutional customers who have their retirement benefits secured with us. Operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987, we are the UK's longest-running insurer.

Our Institutional Retirement division provides pension risk transfer (PRT) solutions for UK and US defined benefit (DB) schemes, and reinsurance solutions from our global hub in Bermuda. We work with companies, DB pension schemes and their advisors to help them secure and protect scheme members' retirement benefits.

Joining us means you'll support customers' financial security in retirement; help companies to settle their pension liabilities and focus on growing their businesses; and enable investment for the long term to back our pension promises.

Closing Date: 07/02/2025

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Job Description

Are you a detail-oriented and proactive professional with a passion for driving business change and IT transformation? Join our dynamic team at Legal & General Institutional Retirement as a Business Analyst! In this role, you will lead the requirements elicitation process on projects, both business and IT, ensuring that they are delivered to the agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality. You'll play a crucial part in enabling the organization to achieve its goals and objectives through innovative use of IT tools and a collaborative approach. If you're ready to make a significant impact and thrive in a flexible working environment, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Identifying business opportunities through stakeholder relationships, shaping ideas, creating and promoting solutions, and gaining senior management buy-in
• Leading requirements elicitation processes on projects, both business and IT, including defining the business opportunity/problem, planning and executing business analysis, and documenting requirements
• Conducting requirements validation with stakeholders, gaining appropriate approvals, and managing the change processes for requirements documentation to ensure clear traceability throughout the project lifecycle
• Critically reviewing and evaluating proposed solutions, identifying alignment with business strategies, and making recommendations to key stakeholders
• Continually evaluating the quality of all deliverables, including those of third parties, to ensure the end product is fit for purpose and acceptable to all stakeholders
• Translating principles of Business Transformation into business/people change activities and project outcomes
• Managing, motivating, and developing employees at all levels to maximize performance in line with the company's policies and procedures

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• A degree-level qualification or equivalent experience
• An IIBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®) or BCS ISEB Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
• Requisite knowledge of the UK Pensions market, including products, regulations, and asset & liability management
• Outstanding project management experience at a senior level with a proven delivery track record of change/transformation
• The ability to adapt to project governance and control
• Effective and confident communication style with stakeholders
• Collaborative in nature with both peers and stakeholders
• Strong ability to adapt to change as well as strong at identifying continuous improvement opportunities

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
• There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain's Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers' money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you're open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.

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