Business Analyst - Birmingham

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Business Analyst to work for our client within the insurance sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Birmingham.

Our client is seeking a talented Business Analyst whose core purpose is to build a strong understanding of end to end user journeys and processes. The successful candidate will be able to elicit accurately and efficiently, challenge and document requirements, processes and scope. You will be a key member of the team, focusing on “building the thing right”, balancing the trade-off between value, technical debt and building scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the business and technology landscape
• Elicit, understand, challenge and translate the business value into requirements, creating appropriate user stories of the right quality at the right time
• Analyse, document and challenge end to end business processes and customer journeys
• Champion process improvement opportunities including associated costs and benefits
• Ensure traceability of requirements and user stories throughout the entire product lifecycle
• Ensure alignment between requirements, user stories and test output, including managing User Acceptance Testing
• Be the link between the internal stakeholder, technical teams and any third-party regarding people, process and technology throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring ownership of the shared outcome you are centred around
• Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure that any user story is detailed, thorough and ready for development, owning the story from conception to final delivery of value
• Aid stakeholders in understanding trade-offs and achieving consensus
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture principles as well as any design principles and strategy decisions made within your product team or the platform ensuring guidance is sought if necessary
• Proactively monitor and communicate industry, functional, and technology trends to stakeholders as well a coach them as to how best harness these to drive business value
• Ensure that all relevant staff receive clear and frequent updates regarding business analytical tasks and progress as necessary
• Adopt a data driven approach in all activities, not only when giving an opinion or arguing a point but being a guardian for how data flows through the organisation and how it must be respected as a key performance driver

Requirements

• Graduate education/qualifications or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years’ experience within the Financial Services sector, including the London Market and Commercial Insurance
• Translation of overall product vision to tangible requirements and deliverables
• Strong communication and relationship skills
• Strong agile/BA methodology background
• Support for Product Leads in a financial services environment
• Management and traceability of OKRs to organisational value and benefit
• Proven experience working with teams located across multiple time zones
• Experience with data flow & contract analysis and definition
• Effective user story writing/management
• Skilled in the analysis and documentation of complex business processes
• Experience with multiple methods for the elicitation, validation, and documentation of requirements for complex Information Systems
• Exposure to a wide range of complex Information Systems across a global enterprise
• Desire to be involved in continuously improving Change Delivery governance processes
• Broad understanding of product delivery practices and management methodologies

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.