Senior Business Analyst - FTC

Allianz; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000

Job description

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Salary: Circa £60,000

Role Description:

In line with our Global strategy and purpose, we have an exciting opportunity to join the UK Transformation Programme as a Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst on a 2 year Fixed Term Contract helping to shape and implement the target operating model for our Commercial business.

Our ambition is to transform the End-to-End experience and journey for our policyholders, intermediaries, internal users and other parties, through a combination of modernising core systems, data-led digital asset development and integrations (internal and external).

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead or support the scoping of change initiatives required for the Transformation Programme, working within the Business Analysis Framework.
• Use your skills and expertise as a Senior Business Analyst to support other Programme Business Analysts to assure quality and delivery of excellence in analysis.
• Work with stakeholders at all levels within the organization to elicit, define and manage business requirements, ensuring clear end to end traceability.
• Ensure requirements are fully understood and approved by stakeholders, supporting Change Control and prioritisation.
• Support the development, systems testing, user acceptance testing and implementation of solutions by working closely with solution partners, suppliers, and business stakeholders.
• Learn from experiences and understand how benefits have been delivered by participating in retrospectives, lessons learned and knowledge share sessions.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• You'll be passionate about the BA role and will have worked on several medium and large change projects, utilising Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Able to elicit comprehensive requirements and achieve consensus from stakeholders using a variety of analysis techniques.
• Solid experience creating Epics and User Stories using Confluence and Jira.
• Good understanding of Use Cases, Value Streams and Personas.
• Can apply recognised industry standard modelling techniques including data modelling and BPMN.
• Great stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• An agile mindset, with a flexible and adaptable approach to delivering against business priorities.
• A Level education or equivalent.

Desirable:

• A good understanding of Business Change support activities.
• Experience working in a Financial Services environment, particularly Commercial General Insurance.
• BCS Diploma in Business Analysis or equivalent.

What We Will Offer You:

• Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you.
• Flexible buy/sell holiday options.
• Hybrid working.
• Annual performance related bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Development days.
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet.
• Retail discounts.

Our Ways of Working: Do you need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work-life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion: At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer. We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success. We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All: As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role. Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

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