Technical Business Analyst

Job title:

Technical Business Analyst

Company

Gallagher

Job description

Job Description:IntroductionJoin us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.
OverviewWe are looking for an experienced Technical Business Analyst to be the vital link between the business stakeholders and the report development teams. This is a role where you will leverage both your skills in eliciting stakeholder requirements and data analysis to translate their needs into detailed, actionable tasks for the report development teams, ensuring the creation of credible, high-quality management information reports.You will become a deep subject matter expertise in our corporate solutions and associated data, which may include broking systems, our placement workbench, CRM, finance, as well as our data platform.As a key collaborator, you would work closely with both onshore and offshore MI teams, playing a crucial role in delivering positive outcomes for our stakeholders. Empower stakeholders with accurate and consistent insights into performance, whether related to clients, carriers, servicing, or operations.
How you’ll make an impactRequirements analysis

• Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, report development and testing teams.
• Eliciting, documenting and translating requirements into actionable, comprehensive tasks for report developers
• Validate data requirements through detailed data analysis relating to logic, data quality and availability
• Facilitate workshops and other requirements gathering activities and when required through thepillar-specific working groups

Process mapping and improvement

• Develop and maintain a sufficiently detailed understanding of current business processes and how they translate to source system and data platform data

Escalate issues pertaining to external processes that limit reporting capability e.g. required data not captured.Stakeholder management

• Regular engagement of stakeholders and developers in report development to enable continuous feedback and improvement
• Work with other Technical Business Analysts, Product Owners and Portfolio Managers to ensure cross-functional and cross-pillar sharing and collaboration.

Testing & validation

• Work with business domain/report owners to coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) with stakeholders
• Document and track bugs and enhancements as part of the report development lifecycle

Portfolio management support

• Assist in detailed planning and roadmap production for pillar-specific activities – specifically in relation to timelines and scope.
• Support the report development lifecycle and planning processes through championing ofdevelopment methodologies and adoption of related tools and procedures e.g. Azure DevOps

Data Steward interface

• Liaise with data stewards to ensure that data dictionaries, business glossaries, report catalogues and other data governance related assets reflect the current reporting position
• Inform Data Stewards about data issues identified through data analysis supporting the validation of stakeholder requirements

Technology interface

• Support pipeline development and other integration related activities with subject matter expertise relating to MI report needs

About You

• Practical experience in a similar role
• Expertise in eliciting, documenting and translating business requirements
• Experience of working with remote teams
• Strong communicator able to switch between technical and non-technical contexts
• Hands-on SQL experience (proficiency in querying and data manipulation)
• Practical, direct experience of using Azure DevOps
• Data quality principles
• Star-schema data modelling principles, understanding of relational models and data flows
• Ability to map business data requirements to system data structures (source-to-target mapping)
• Understanding of row-level security, role-based access controls and other data management principles pertaining to data security.
• Knowledge of Power BI
• Eligibility to work in the UK

Compensation and benefitsOn top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversityInclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

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Location

London

Job date

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 02:23:17 GMT

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