Business Analyst
PoloWorks
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cheltenham • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £75,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Azure
About the role
- Capture and document business requirements, processes, and data needs for new and existing change initiatives.
- Work with stakeholders across PoloWorks and, where required, Marco functions including operations, finance, underwriting support, and technology.
- Support analysis and mapping of data flows between core systems and work/time recording mechanism and data sources, including HR, finance, operations and reporting tools.
- Produce clear and structured documentation such as requirement specifications, user stories, business cases, process maps, and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure requirements are understood, developed, and tested appropriately.
- Support test planning and execution including defining test cases and participating in UAT.
- Participate in the planning, business readiness and execution of the cutover from old to new business processes including the smooth transition of transition of both systems and workflow between those systems.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of business processes, identifying areas for optimisation or automation.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, requirements workshops, and project stand-ups.
- Work with project managers to track progress, highlight risks and ensure successful delivery of business outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst within an insurance or financial services environment.
- Strong analytical skills with experience documenting requirements, processes, and data logic.
- Understanding of data structures and familiarity with working on data/reporting initiatives.
- Ability to build effective relationships with business and technical stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience in producing documentation including process flows, data flows, operating procedures, and test plans.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including stakeholder facilitation and presentation.
- Comfortable working in an environment of evolving priorities and concurrent projects.
- Experience of transitioning a business from one finance system to another.
- Experience of working within the insurance sector is desirable.
- Experience implementing Sage Intacct and, ideally, some experience of SunAccounts 6.3.
- Experience using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Visio, and Excel.
- Understanding of agile and waterfall project delivery methods.
Benefits
- As well as a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a minimum 24 days of annual leave (with the option to buy more), you will also get an excellent benefits package, including flexible, hybrid working, private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, enhanced pension contributions, and occupational maternity and paternity pay.
- You will also have access to company volunteering days, an Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing scheme, an employee assistance programme with retail discounts and savings, a generous employee referral scheme, regular sports and social events, and free Cheltenham bus travel.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
business analysisrequirements documentationdata mappingtest planningUATprocess optimizationdata structuresdocumentation productionagile methodologywaterfall methodology
Soft skills
analytical skillsrelationship buildingcommunication skillsstakeholder facilitationpresentation skillsadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingproject managementrisk management