Corporate Business Analyst - M&G plc.

Corporate Business Analyst

An exciting opportunity to work as part of the Business Analysis team within the Life Transformation function. As a Corporate Business Analyst you will be responsible for all aspects of Analysis & Design activity across portfolios of projects and programmes. You will work closely with project professionals in other disciplines as well as individuals and teams at all levels across the wider organisation to define innovative solutions that deliver the best outcomes to our customers and M&G.

• Lead Business Analysis activity for highly ambiguous/complex large‑scale programmes and/or portfolios of work, based on an understanding of business problems, strategic vision, Target Operating Model and change requirements.
• Define and direct the overall approach for the Business Analyst team, guiding them to deliver the project's objectives, setting standards and providing assurance over analysis deliverables.
• Ensure clarity of the business problem/opportunity and the desired business outcomes which the requirements/solutions need to meet.
• Proactively work with Senior Stakeholders to develop, analyse and prioritise requirements based on business objectives.
• Challenge and generate options to deliver optimal solutions.
• Provide oversight and assurance of analysis and design activity undertaken by the immediate team and strategic partners.

• Communicate with project teams, Transformation SMT and senior business stakeholders using appropriate methods.
• Plan and organise teams, portfolio priorities, time and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Manage information: strategy/direction, environmental influences, regulatory stance.
• Monitor and report portfolio approach, progress, risks & issues, constraints, forecasts and benefit realisation.
• Evaluate and make decisions – develop executive‑level conceptual/contextual models to define situations or problems.
• Communicate, liaise and negotiate internally and externally to facilitate the desired outcomes of the analysis and design activity.
• Produce/define frameworks and structures to enable the portfolio to progress; methods to monitor and measure success against objectives and outcomes.
• Maintain/repair portfolio collateral, business analysis standards, tools and techniques, journeys and outcomes.
• Create and develop innovative solutions, approaches and tools to solve large‑scale business problems.
• Recruit and manage forward‑looking resources, including recruitment of appropriately skilled Business Analysis resources as required.
• Assess the skills and capabilities of the Business Analysis function.
• Identify training needs and deliver appropriate modules.
• Mentor and manage people, setting objectives and developing tailored personal development plans.
• Support the business in setting direction and strategy through analysis and feasibility.
• Launch and implement solutions with senior stakeholders.
• Ensure full traceability across analysis and design activity through efficient and robust administration.
• Pro‑actively develop personal skills and behaviours to keep pace with innovation, industry and best practice.

• Experience working with third‑party providers and senior stakeholders (up to Exec Director level) across the business and influencing thinking across a range of disparate stakeholders.
• Experience leading and directing teams of business analysts within large‑scale strategic change programmes.
• Significant experience defining outcomes, facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, process modelling and producing business options and solution designs.
• Significant experience working in a project environment involving process re‑engineering, journey definition, major systems change and organisational and cultural change.
• Significant experience selecting and driving the right design approach in complex and ambiguous environments from a range of pragmatic and creative solution options.
• Significant experience analysing complex business information and desired outcomes to understand and drive change requirements, solution design and programme initiation.

• Detailed knowledge of life and pensions products, markets and…