Senior Business Analyst
Senior Business Analyst
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Role Description
Allianz have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team working on a hybrid basis out of our Ditton Park office. You will be part of the Allianz Specialty Team looking after the Pet Insurance .
As one of our Senior Business Analysts youll play a lead role in organisational change by using specialised business analysis change management skills and disciplined business analysis approaches. This is achieved through repeated deliveries and/or specialist area of knowledge.
You will work across many functional domains with stakeholders at many levels up to board level.
Salary: Circa 60000
Location: Slough Datchet Ditton Park
Pay is based on relevant experience skills for the role and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package
Key Accountabilities
- Works with a series of stakeholders up to Exec and Board level in defining business visions and developing the strategies to meet these via strategic analyses feasibility studies and business cases.
- Applies and develops analysis ways of working to any piece of change driving continuous improvement.
- Defining and implementing the business analysis approach to be applied for the analysis activities required on the programme project or initiative.
- Ensuring that all activities align with change governance and quality standards.
- Supports the development systems testing user acceptance testing and implementation of solutions by working closely with solution partners suppliers and business stakeholders.
- Mentors and coaches others in the business analysis profession.
- Learns from previous experience and understands how benefits have been delivered by participating in post-implementation reviews lessons learned sessions and knowledge share/peer reviews.
- Makes a significant contribution to the continuous learning of the profession of the role.
Technical Skills
- Expertise in defining and leading business analysis approaches within Waterfall and Agile methodologies from change and systems development perspectives.
- Expertise in the application of recognised industry standard modelling techniques including data modelling and BPMN.
- Experience and knowledge of change lifecycle concepts used to plan develop implement operate and maintain change.
Essential Skills
- Understanding of key drivers for change.
- Experience or demonstrable knowledge of the insurance industry including products services and differing business models.
- High degree of organisation task planning and time management.
- Extensive experience of different project methods (often within the same initiative) and how these impact the work a business analyst carries out.
- Experience of working in a business analysis role on a number of high complexity change initiatives where multi-faceted change is being carried out across information technology people organisation and process.
- Has an extensive appreciation of the wider field of IT systems (architecture hardware and software) their use in relevant business processes and how they are implemented to meet business objectives.
- Excellent communication skills verbal and written and understanding of tools used to support change management and software development.
- Extensive experience of planning and facilitating workshops of large size and complexity.
- Is able to initiate medium to large pieces of change.
- Able to undertake business analysis in a multi-faceted change environment involving information technology people process and organisation change.
- Able to work in any functional domain rapidly gaining an understanding of the business area stakeholders and business needs.
Desirable Skills
- Leadership mentoring and coaching others within the profession.
- Experience influencing and managing stakeholders up to board level.
- Extensive experience working with remote/offshore/third party teams
What We Will Offer You
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car home and pet
- Retail discounts
Our Ways of Working
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work Let us know as part of your application and if its right for our customers our business and for you then well do everything we can to make it happen.Here at Allianz we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns which balance the needs of our customers with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation creativity and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Allianz we prioritize diversity and inclusion demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion Women in Finance Charter members Disability Confident employer Stonewall Diversity Champion Business in the Communitys Race at Work Charter signatories and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs whether its assistive technology ergonomic equipment mentoring coaching or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme for those meeting the essential skills for the role.
Contact our Resourcingteamto opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application including larger text hard copies or spoken applications.
For any inquiries or to submit your application please contact:Scott Burns
We reserve the right to close the ad early if we reach enough applications.
Closing date 11/07/2025
Join us - Lets Care for Tomorrow.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
