Lead Business Analyst
- Employer
- i3 Resourcing
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £70,000 - £75,000 annual + benefits + bonus
- Closing date
- 31 Jan 2019
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- Sector
- Financial Services
- Responsibilities
- Accounting, Analyst, Project / Programme Management
- Position/Level
- Professional / Specialist
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Language
- English
Lead Business Analyst - Insurance - City
Lead Business Analyst
London Insurance Market
City, London
70,000 - 75,000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Permanent
Lead - Business Analyst - Insurance - Lloyd's Insurance Market - London Insurance Market - Business Process - Agile - SDLC
A well respected organisation operating in the Lloyd's Insurance Market seeks a Lead Business Analyst with strong knowledge of Insurance: General Insurance, including Lloyds and UK Company Markets and understanding of the project life cycle and SDLC to join their City office.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst looking for a step up in their career!
The Business Analysis Lead will be responsible for the management of a flexible/variable team of BA's creating/defining process and requirements needs in the context of project delivery and application enhancements. This role will be an integral leadership role on project teams. They will be a key linkage to the quality assurance/testing phase of projects as well as provide context, continuity and validation of the solution across the life cycle of a project.
Responsibilities:
- Business Analysis Lead will work with a flexible team of BA's and the Release Manager or Project Manager to proactively and continually analyze workload/team capacity and ensure deliverables are aligned with demand and Yearly Release Calendar.
- Provide guidance/direction to BA team
- Mentoring of BA team
- As required, perform Business Analyst duties and collaborate with project/support teams and business stakeholders to understand, document and clearly explain detailed requirements to the support & development teams.
- Author business requirements
- Review business requirements
- Liaise between business stakeholders and technical team members to investigate/troubleshoot, document and track potential bugs through fix, test and delivery.
- Conduct walkthroughs with IT team members and business leads to secure sign off of requirements, review of prototypes etc
- Co-ordinate with testing teams and Business SMEs to ensure requirements traceability and coverage within QA and UAT test cases
- Author/Review Test Plans
- Execute Test Plans as needed
- Adhere to and enforce project requirement standards, templates and methods to complete work
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Prior experience in the Insurance sector.
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Management/Computer Science and/or Certifications in Business Analysis (CBAP), BPM, Six Sigma/Lean or similar designations (required).
- Proven ability to deliver consistently high quality results operating under Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
- Proven team player possessing excellent verbal and written communication skills capable of operating in a geographically dispersed project environment included outsourced services/offshore development/QA teams.
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills with demonstrated ability to facilitate, collaborate, influence and drive resolution across different stakeholders within a cross-functional organization.
- Proficiency with Software/systems commonly used to manage Programs/Projects (MS Word, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, TFS, JIRA etc.)
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