Senior Business Analyst

Job Title - Senior Business Analyst

Contract: 9 months

Location: London

Rate: £700 - Umbrella company

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in the London Insurance Market. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical capabilities, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to drive business transformation through data-driven insights and process optimisation.

Core Responsibilities:

Provide your expertise knowledge and challenge SMEs and Business colleagues to driving new thinking.
Collaborate as part of the programme structures, workstreams, as well as work independently, and engage with stakeholders at all levels to drive outcomes.
Utilise your skills and experience in the areas of structured problem solving, business analysis, data analytics, design thinking, lean process improvement and undertake process design and process re-engineering to support performance excellence in the organisation to identify strategic initiatives.
Use advanced data analysis techniques to provide insights into business performance and volumes data to support the strategic initiatives in prioritisation of specific lines of business, processes and trading partnerships
Collaborate with policy, business, and technology stakeholders to deliver business requirements that drive changes in business processes, policies, or systems.
Assist in defining success metrics and support mechanisms for monitoring throughout the service life cycles.
Facilitate the implementation of new business strategies, systems, or processes by providing training and/or procedure documentation to ensure that teams are well-prepared to execute changes.
Proactively identify potential risks and issues related to business requirements, process changes or project lifecycle.
Provide expertise as an experienced practitioner and mentor within the Business Analyst community, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the efforts of multiple Business Analysts.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Insurance Experience
Detailed experience of the London Market is critical to success in this role.
Detailed understanding of both the Broker and Carrier placement journeys is required.
Excellent communicator
Initiates, grows and maintains strong working relationships at all levels including business leaders, subject matter experts and other key stakeholders across the business.
Adapts content, style and level of detail of written and verbal communications to fit numerous, diverse audiences, selecting the most effective method in each case
Critical thinker
Understands, articulates and translates complex business problems to define clear activities which result in desired solutions
Effective in identifying problems, performing analysis to determine root causes
Persuades internal and external stakeholders of the benefits or downsides of new technology or strategies
Technical competency
Solid understanding of analysis methodologies and development life cycles and an understanding of the fundamental analysis process and demonstrates a pragmatic application of these, appropriate to a given audience and/or situation
Analyses the structure of the business, its goals and how process, technology and people influence current performance
Independent
Self-motivated and organised
Manages own time to ensure task are completed
Responsible for own learning