Posted: 17/10/2024 13:14Salary: CompetitiveLocation: LondonLevel: TechnicalDeadline: 17/01/2025 23:59Hours: 35Benefits: Please refer to the list of Employee BenefitsJob Type: Contractor<NO AGENCIES PLEASE>
Job Description
Job Title Senior Business Analyst
Employment Type Contract (6 months)
Division Change Delivery
Reports to: Change Delivery Director
Location: London
Website www.amwinsglobalrisks.com
Amwins Global Risks
At Amwins Global Risks, we succeed together. We’re not ‘just another London broker’ placing risks and signing contracts. We’re forging relationships that are built to last. With over 700 employees around the world and a global footprint across more than 150 countries, we’ve cemented our place as a top 10 contributor to Lloyd’s.
Insurance is a relationship-based business, and achieving success means hiring the best talent in the industry. When you join us, we will encourage and support your professional and personal development as we invest in you and your learning to help you succeed and grow.
We believe in a flat organisational structure that prizes expertise and relationships equally. We’ve built a workplace where talent, collaboration and inclusivity are valued, and our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion helps cultivate an open, welcoming workplace where everyone who works with us can be themselves.
Introduction
The Senior Business Analyst (BA) will play a pivotal role within the Change Delivery team, working closely with stakeholders across the organisation to lead and drive process improvements, system enhancements, and organisational change initiatives within a fast-paced environment.
This specific role will be focused on the AGR Future State project which will build a new digital broker workbench that will revolutionise the way brokers interact with data, clients and markets. The platform will be dynamic, integrate real-time market information, automate workflows, and enhances decision-making with advanced analytics. This project will be built by Amwins, use modern technologies, streamline complex processes, and shape the future of broking.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily engagement with project team and key stakeholders for implementation.
- Documenting functional and technical requirements provided by stakeholders.
- Managing and writing justifications for key decisions, ensuring that risks associated with the project are identified, tracked, and mitigated.
- Collaborating with internal and external teams to track project deliverables.
- Creating and maintaining project documentation, including diagrams (Visio), project plans (MS Project) and Azure DevOps.
- Supporting the Change Delivery Director, Product Owner, project team and business teams by clearly communicating project progress and any issues that arise.
- Operate according to Amwins internal policies (e.g. Enterprise Risk policy, Change Delivery Framework) and applicable regulatory requirements.
Key Deliverables
- Independently gather business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and document analysis, and create detailed requirements documentation (e.g., Business Requirement Document - BRD).
- Conduct a comprehensive gap analysis, identifying discrepancies between the current state and the desired state of business processes or systems.
- Develop “As-Is” and “To-Be” process maps, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
- Define and document functional and non-functional requirements for system changes, product development, or process improvements.
- Facilitate workshops, meetings, and one-to-one sessions with key stakeholders to gather insights, validate requirements, and manage expectations.
- Analyse and evaluate potential solutions (technical or process-based) against the gathered requirements and make independent recommendations to stakeholders.
- Develop detailed user stories, use cases, or scenarios that define how end-users will interact with a new system or process.
- Assist in creating a test plan and provide input into user acceptance testing (UAT) scripts to ensure that requirements are testable and met.
- Analyse business data to identify trends, patterns, and insights and prepare a report with recommendations for business decisions or process improvements.
- Produce change management documents such as impact assessments, stakeholder impact maps, and communication plans to support the business through transitions.
