£25K/yr to £39K/yr
Gloucester, England
Permanent, Variable

Business Analyst

Posted by Thistle Insurance Services.

Role:

Schemes Transformation Business Analyst

Reporting to:

Head of Transformation

Location

: Gloucester/Hybrid – some travel possible

A brilliant opportunity to add some real value to an already established and successful team, pivotal to the continued success of the company

If you have a keen eye for detail, are methodical, ambitious and a good team player then this role could be for you. We want to talk to you if you have strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of Transformation principles and the ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across various departments and teams.

You would have the opportunity to work from our Gloucester office & home on a hybrid basis with expectations to travel to other offices as required.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyse current state processes: Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement and from those,

  • Gather and document business requirement for in-house PAS (policy admin system) functional build.

  • Assist with writing User Stories for Dev Team

  • Define and document future state processes: Work with stakeholders to design new processes that are efficient, effective, and aligned with the new Policy Admin System.

  • Take the lead in interviews with stakeholders, facilitating workshops and other requirements gathering meetings. Lead discussions with stakeholders to gather input, build consensus, and drive decision-making.

  • Deliver high quality project documentation (process flows, requirements, user stories) according to existing standards.

  • Manage stakeholders to achieve sign-off of requirements.

  • Work with IT Developers to agree appropriate solution to support requirements.

  • Provide the link between the development team and business representatives regarding functionality, throughout the development lifecycle.

  • Capture data elements, organise and model data to support or improve recommendations.

  • Ensure cross project team and business stakeholder collaboration.

Experience:

  • Demonstrable experience writing requirements specifications and User Stories and obtaining business agreement.
  • Experience of working with multi-disciplined development teams, including external vendors and agencies providing services for projects.
  • Previous experience of business analysis within an Insurance environment
  • MS Office suite, including Excel / Visio knowledge and skills.
  • Knowledge and experience of a range of project delivery methodologies (Agile & Waterfall).
  • Experience of gathering business requirements using a variety of techniques from representatives at different levels of the business.

Further Information:

As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -

  • Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
  • Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
  • Company pension scheme
  • Very generous maternity and paternity leave packages
  • A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
  • Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
  • Referral schemes
  • Discounted rates on PIB products
  • We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
  • If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ‘give something back' interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
  • We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
  • PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
  • Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
  • PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB's carbon footprint.

We are proud of our success and growth and have been recognised for many industry awards across our business. If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you. PIB operates a flexible working policy, and our management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about opportunities in PIB.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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