Product Analyst

Job Description

Role Title: Product AnalystDepartment: Business Agility - Underwriting Domain - Risk Rating & Pricing PortfolioLocation: LondonType: Permanent About the RoleThe Product Analyst works as part of an agile team to deliver business change outcomes. They carry out requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation tasks to ensure that the outcomes meet the needs of the business. As part of the Agile delivery teamthey will help to ensure ongoing continuous improvement through the identification and championing of new standards and toolsets.About the Department & TeamThe Risk Rating & Pricing Portfolio, sits within the Underwriting Domain within the Business Agility function. The team partners closely with the corresponding Technology team who lead on the technical design, build and delivery, and with GRSi Change Managementteam who lead on the people side of change to ensure successful adoption and benefits realisation change. The Business Agility and CIO teams are co-accountable for the delivery of people, process, technology and data change to support business outcomes.Key Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis work to a consistently high standard within a range of business areas,

producing output to agreed timescales, and standards

• Conduct analysis work to understand current state processes and to identify the "to be" future state operating models through process and technology
• Identify the relationships, dependencies and impacts of change (highlighting options) on multiple systems and processes
• Contribute to the project as required to develop proposals, requirements or other project documentation.
• Elicit further requirements and test / challenge assumptions using a variety of methods including interviews, document analysis, workshops and business process descriptions
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Stakeholder management - support the Portfolio Leader, Product Manager and Product Owner to interact with all levels of leadership, obtain buy in and sign off and manage expectations
• Contribute to the development of standards / methodology for capturing and publishing business processes, requirements and other documentation

Define and document epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc for complex solutions

• Work effectively as part of an agile team alongside the Product Owner, Scrum Master and technology delivery colleagues
• Accurately identify and estimate deliverable efforts and commitments
• Contribute to team sprint planning and set expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participate in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Support the use of product level KPIs to drive product decisions.
• Support creating and maintaining the backlog (including prioritization, and acceptance criteria).
• Adhere at all times to company policies, procedures and standards

Skills and Experience

• Experience working as a Business Analyst in agile software delivery environments (preferred)
• Experience defining and documenting epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc for complex solutions (preferred)
• Business analysis experience and knowledge of business analysis methodologies
• Experience of Reinsurance (preferred) and/or Insurance business processes and technology solutions
• Good knowledge of business functions, business operations, objectives and strategies
• Good knowledge of MS Excel to help with requirements gathering and demonstrating concepts
• Documentation of management systems & workflow application experience
• General knowledge of IT concepts, strategies and methodologies, including architectural and security concepts, systems development lifecycle, information management and portfolio management (production systems, release planning, change management)
• BPMN or similar business process modelling skills
• Experience with any of the following systems is advantageous:
  • HX Renew or similar Pricing Platforms
  • Salesforce CRM and Workflow
  • IRIS Policy Admin System
  • Document Management Systems
• Ability to work independently as well as harmoniously within teams
• Demonstrated ability to communicate both in business and technical terms
• Ability to work to deadlines and to meet standards
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working with C level stakeholders
• Flexible and pragmatic

If this sounds of interest please apply or contactCarbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.