Just
Job title:
DB Business Analyst
Company
Just
Job description
At Just we encourage a flexible and agile working environment for the majority of our opportunities. Get in touch with us to discuss in more detail.
Business Analyst – Defined Benefit
Full time
London
Purpose of the Job
The Business Analyst contributes to business analysis activities to drive rapid and effective design and delivery of solutions to business problems.
As catalysts for change, they will analyse business needs, collaborate with stakeholders to deeply understand the desired business outcomes, develop options, agree on proposed solutions, and support the detailed design, building, and implementation of the solutions into the business.
They will support other team members in developing requirements analysis, design, problem-solving, and pragmatic process improvement.
They will support Group design standards and apply appropriate delivery and analysis best practices to deliver the most important outcomes and iteratively evolving solutions rapidly.
Job Role Accountabilities
The principal accountabilities of the Business Analyst include but do not stop at:
Lead business analysis activities to drive real business value for the organisation.
- Analyse business needs and collaborate with stakeholders to understand desired business outcomes.
- Partner with Business Product Owners, SMEs and delivery teams across the Group to define and prioritise requirements and support the design of innovative solutions to meet business needs.
- Stay up-to-date with business trends and domain knowledge to better understand changes and opportunities in the business environment and alternative solution delivery options.
- Apply data-driven insights to understand financial and non-financial implications to help stakeholders make appropriate decisions.
- Help identify and assess potential risks associated with proposed solutions and develop mitigation strategies.
Continuous improvement and development of organisational Business Analysis capabilities
- Developing the analytical capabilities of teams and stakeholders.
- Role-model the design, implementation and embedding of best practices to meet high-quality standards.
Stakeholder engagement and Change Management support
- Communicate business requirements to foster shared understanding to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Presenting messages in clear, purposeful and consumable ways.
- Demonstrating collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams and guide analysis activity.
- Understand the impact of change on the organisation and stakeholders and provide advice and guidance on navigating through change.
About You
Qualifications / Certifications (desirable, not essential)
- Evidenced certification of Analysis standards preferred.
- Product owner, project, and change management-related professional qualifications are desirable but not essential.
Skills, knowledge and expertise
The Business Analyst must possess analytical, creative, and communication skills and a broad and solid expertise in analysis techniques, solution development, and change management. The ability to self-manage in a dynamic environment with a results-driven mindset is essential.
- Strategic thinking: Ability to interpret business goals and solutions and deliver on short-term commitments whilst considering the longer-term impacts.
- Problem-solving: Solid experience in analysing, synthesising, and logically structuring information in a step-by-step way to identify trends and find solutions, mainly through collaboration tools.
- Analysis techniques: Good knowledge and application of analysis techniques, design principles, Agile practices, and risk in analysis.
- Creativity: Adaptable and creative approaches, with the ability to use operating models and design principles to solve business problems.
- Communication: Strong collaboration, facilitation, presentation, communication skills and ability to purposefully communicate appropriate, concise and accurate information.
- Stakeholder management: Good stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and convince, with negotiation and conflict management skills.
- Results-oriented: Proactive, self-driven, and results-oriented, able to lead analysis in different environments and challenges.
- Solution development: Knowledge of proposition development, operating and business model design, and business and solution architecture, focusing on commercial and risk analysis.§ Data analysis: Good data analysis skills to drive data-led insights and innovation.
- Project and change management: Understanding project and change management in different environments to deliver successful outcomes.
- Mentoring and team development: Support and encourage the development of other team members, bring maturity to the BA disciplines and strive to identify and implement improvements.
- Product: experience within Defined Benefit products or Retail platforms implementation highly desirable
- Strong technical delivery capability
Benefits
- A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
- Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
- Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
- A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
- Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
- FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
- A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
- Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
About Us
We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly.
How people work, save, and plan for the future is all changing. A new generation of retirees needs a new kind of retirement company. A company who will look for new ways of doing things – and will always put the customer first.
That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement. And with you on our team, we’re going to make sure they get it.
We’ve built our sustainability strategy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and have selected goals where we believe we can make the most difference. By aligning our activity with these global goals, we can make sure we play our part in addressing the wider issues facing the planet and leave a positive legacy to the world. You can read more about our sustainability strategy .
Diversity, equity and inclusion are priorities for us. Having a diverse, talented workforce with colleagues of different backgrounds, world views and experiences is the right thing to do. It’s also the most effective way to succeed, innovate and better serve our customers now and in the future. We are committed to our targets on gender and ethnicity and run a number of successful mentoring and sponsorship programmes for our colleagues from diverse backgrounds. We have multiple active employee network groups which champion issues including gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and neurodiversity. You can read more about our DE&I strategy and commitments .
What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly – each other. We look forward to welcoming you to the team soon.
Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:13:05 GMT
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