Corporate Business Analyst

Corporate Business Analyst

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

• Leads 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
• Defines and directs the overall approach for the Business Analyst team, guiding them to deliver the projects objectives, setting standards and providing assurance over analysis deliverables
• Ensures clarity of the business problem / opportunity and desired business outcomes which the requirements / solutions need to meet
• Proactively works with Senior Stakeholders to develop, analyse and prioritise requirements based on business objectives
• Challenges and generates options to deliver optimal solutions
• Provide oversight and assurance of analysis and design activity undertaken by immediate team and strategic partners

What Outcomes will I be responsible for delivering?

• Communicating - project teams, Transformation SMT and senior business stakeholders using appropriate methods
• Planning and organising - Teams, Portfolio Priorities, Time, Senior Stakeholder engagement
• Managing information - Strategy / Direction, Environmental influences, Regulatory stance
• Monitoring and report - Portfolio Approach, Progress, Risks & Issues, Constraints, Forecasts, Benefit Realisation
• Evaluating and decision-making - 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
• Producing / Defining things - An appropriate framework and structure to enable the Portfolio to progress. Methods to monitor and measure success against objectives and outcomes
• Maintaining/repairing things - Portfolio collateral, business analysis standards, tools and techniques, Journeys, Outcomes
• Creating and developing things - Innovative solutions, approaches and tools to solve large scale business problems

• Recruiting People - Maintain a forward looking resource model and manage recruitment of appropriately skilled Business Analysis resources as required
• Assessing People - Monitor and assess the skills and capabilities of the Business Analysis function
• Training People - Identify training needs and put in place / provide the appropriate modules
• Managing People - On-going line and task management including mentoring, setting of stretching objectives and developing tailored personal development plans

• Formulation of direction and strategy - Support the business in setting direction and strategy through analysis and feasibility
• Launch and implementation - Work with senior stakeholders to develop and implement innovative solutions
• Appropriate administration - Ensure full traceability across analysis and design activity through an efficient and robust level of administration
• Self-development and continuing personal development - Pro‑active pace with innovation, industry and best practice. On‑going assessment and development of own skills and behaviours

• Experience of working with 3rd party providers and senior stakeholders (up to Exec Director level) across the business and influencing thinking across a range of disparate business stakeholders
• Experience of leading and directing teams of business analysts within large scale strategic change programmes
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