Senior 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.

The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for leading the delivery of complex analysis within programmes and portfolios. The Senior BA will be responsible for the high level design and analysis, working on requirement definition and decomposition before these are handed to the feature teams in the studio, they’re also responsible for providing oversight and guidance to Business analysts within feature teams, ensuring that business outcomes are achieved through high-quality, value-driven solutions.

The role's purpose is to lead and deliver business analysis within portfolios, promote best practices, and support the development of the business analysis community.

The role involves providing leadership in business analysis across portfolios, advocating best practices, and fostering growth within the business analysis community. We seek a motivated candidate with a solid track record in business analysis to collaborate with technology teams in our Life and Savings business, assisting in launching new products, improving existing ones, and implementing regulatory updates.

• Deliver complex analysis outcomes with a business area or project, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Collaborate on QA approach to ensure quality and completeness of solutions.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads and Senior Engineers to develop requirements and solutions.
• Support strategic planning and long-term transformation by contributing to planning and analysis.
• Understand the technology across Life Tech and be comfortable working in a technology team.
• Work with other Change disciplines such as Product Owners, Service Design and Change Business Analysts to collaborate on complex problems.

• Embed BA ways of working and promote consistency across teams.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and backlog refinement from a BA perspective.
• Contribute to the BA Best Practices to support continuous improvement.
• Build relationships with peers and senior stakeholders.

• Validate the business value of solutions to ensure they meet business needs.
• Contribute to prioritisation and unblock delivery issues to maintain progress.

• Collaborate with QA and Dev Ops teams to align analysis with delivery pipelines.
• Define and execute the Defect Loop within the studio to ensure quality and traceability.

• Document non-functional requirements and ensure they are addressed in solution design.

• Participate in BA community and own initiatives to share knowledge and promote best practices.
• Mentor and coach junior analysts to build capability and confidence within a project setting.
• Support team morale and psychological safety to foster a positive work environment.
• Seek and apply feedback for personal development and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the onboarding of new resources to the business analysis community.

• Support strategic planning and transformation efforts by contributing insights and analysis.
• Identify, contribute to, and own BA Strategy initiatives to support continuous improvements and community.

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