Business Analyst
Posted 1 day ago by Hellowork Consultants
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Business Analyst role involves engaging with underwriters and senior stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into user stories. The position requires acting as a Product Owner within agile squads, managing the product backlog, and facilitating workshops to identify business value. The candidate will collaborate with technical teams to ensure alignment with system architecture and support user acceptance testing (UAT). Extensive experience in the London Insurance Market and strong stakeholder engagement skills are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage with underwriters and senior business stakeholders to understand pain points, gather requirements, and translate these into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Act as a Product Owner in agile squads where appropriate, managing and prioritising the product backlog to ensure delivery aligns with strategic objectives.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and journey mapping sessions to elicit requirements and identify business value.
- Work with technical teams and solution architects to ensure feasibility and alignment with broader system architecture.
- Support UAT, including test case definition, coordination, and defect resolution.
- Collaborate with Change, Operations, and IT teams to ensure smooth delivery and stakeholder communication.
- Maintain a strong understanding of company market, and delegated authority processes.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience working in the London Insurance Market, ideally within a syndicate or carrier environment.
- Proven background as a Business Analyst, with a strong grasp of policy lifecycle, underwriting, and risk data.
- Demonstrable experience acting as a Product Owner, ideally in agile/iterative delivery models.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills – especially working with underwriters and underwriting operations.
- Skilled in writing Epics, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria (e.g., using Jira/Confluence).
- Familiar with digital transformation, data-driven solutions, and system migration or integration projects.
- Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance considerations in insurance.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Key Responsibilities: Engage with underwriters and senior business stakeholders to understand pain points, gather requirements, and translate these into clear user stories and acceptance criteria. Act as a Product Owner in agile squads where appropriate, managing and prioritising the product backlog to ensure delivery aligns with strategic objectives. Facilitate workshops, interviews, and journey mapping sessions to elicit requirements and identify business value. Work with technical teams and solution architects to ensure feasibility and alignment with broader system architecture. Support UAT, including test case definition, coordination, and defect resolution. Collaborate with Change, Operations, and IT teams to ensure smooth delivery and stakeholder communication. Maintain a strong understanding of company market, and delegated authority processes. Required Experience Extensive experience working in the London Insurance Market, ideally within a syndicate or carrier environment. Proven background as a Business Analyst, with a strong grasp of policy lifecycle, underwriting, and risk data Demonstrable experience acting as a Product Owner, ideally in agile/iterative delivery models. Strong stakeholder engagement skills – especially working with underwriters and underwriting operations. Skilled in writing Epics, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria (e.g., using Jira/Confluence). Familiar with digital transformation, data-driven solutions, and system migration or integration projects Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance considerations in insurance