Business Analyst
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
Job overview
Do you have the energy, passion and drive to lead process and system improvement initiatives across our business, facilitating business and system change and delivering optimum process efficiency and effectiveness? We are looking for an experienced business analyst to join our organizational management team to support strategic projects; driving revenue generation, new product launch as well as digital programs.
Allianz Partners' organization management department has a unique and exciting job opportunity available for someone who enjoys challenging the status quo and seeking out creative ways to support the company’s ever more complex commercial processes with innovative and robust business and IT solutions.The candidate required will possess the right balance of technical business analysis know-how along with influencing and relationship building skills necessary to drive projects to a successful conclusion. Ultimately, this candidate will be responsible for leading the investigation of business systems, identifying areas for improvement and bridging the needs of the business with the use of IT.
What you do
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Identify areas for improvement, understand business need, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current processes
- Identify and drive agreement of scope with senior stakeholders
- Perform root cause analysis of problems, conduct workshops and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into functional requirement specifications
- Assist the business stakeholders in prioritising business requirements and defining new business processes
- Produce detailed, high quality and clear documentation
- Work closely with the technical team during the implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects
- Validate solution delivered and ensure it is fit for business purpose
- Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business stakeholders at all levels during the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change
- Drive deliverables to completion within challenging timelines ensuring collaboration and effective communication with all stakeholders
- Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely
- Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed have been delivered and are ready for release
- Work with IT and business stakeholders when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process. Where necessary devise detailed cut over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover
- Business travel may be required
What you bring
To be successful in this position you will need to have the following skills and experience:
- Educated to degree level
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a business analyst
- Knowledge of financial services and insurance industry sector useful but not essential
- Strong communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment
- Experience working in agile
- Demonstrable ability to think "outside of the box" and innovate
- Proven ability to drive and manage change
- Comfortable challenging the ideas of others
- Strong influencing skills
- Capable of working across borders and cross organizational boundaries
- Commercial acumen
What we offer
Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.
We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged.Caring for your health and wellbeing is a key priority for us. This is why we build work well programs to provide you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.
About the Company
With over 159,000 employees from 172 nationalities across more than 70 countries, we are one of the world's most trusted insurance and asset management companies. We offer a broad range of products and services in property/casualty insurance, life/health insurance, and asset management.We have our largest operational presence in Europe, and our parent company, Allianz SE, is headquartered in Munich, Germany. From jobs in Actuarial, Business and IT to Inhouse Consulting and Investment Management - your opportunities are endless!
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