Data Business Analyst (Asset Management)

Purpose of the role

On behalf of our client, we are currently looking for a Data Business Analyst to join the Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) team in London.

The role will form part of the Client Group Squad / Regulatory workstream, delivering on strategic initiatives in partnership with Client Group, Regulatory, Data Management and Technology teams.

What you'll do

• Drive business and data analysis for Client Group or Regulatory initiatives and complex change, working closely with Product Owners and senior stakeholders within the scrum teams.
• Gather, understand and document detailed requirements using appropriate tools and techniques, translating business requirements into clear, actionable user stories, acceptance criteria and process documentation.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand and validate data requirements, ensuring accurate reporting.
• Identify barriers to transformation, supporting the prioritisation and scoping of complex backlog items.
• Contribute to solution design for data projects or programmes of change, paying particular focus to people, process, technology, risks, and controls.
• Engagement, reviews and testing with developers, testers, architects and business users.
• Pro-active resolution of issues, designing solutions and presenting recommendations to senior business stakeholders.
• Understanding data models, both normalised and denormalised to work across multiple systems and platforms.
• Part of a scrum team, working to agile methodologies and closely with stakeholders within client group, central data teams and technology.
• Strong understanding and experience working with analytic tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Sigma, understanding the end-to-end data design and user experience.

The skills you'll need

• Experienced Data Analyst with a strong grasp of the Asset Management industry for example previous experience in Fixed Income, OTC, Equites or Derivatives.
• Proven track record in business and data modelling, process design and solution concepts.
• Experience working within an agile framework with a proven record of successful delivery within a scrum team.
• Experience working with cloud data Platforms and relational and non-relational databases with SQL proficiencies to query and analyse them.
• Experience in SQL and Snowflake.
• Experience working with third party vendors & clients to use / provide / transform and report on data.
• Experience translating and adapting business requirements from various levels of internal stakeholders into value-add deliverables in the form of user stories.
• Experience working with architects, data management and data governance to deliver positive outcomes.
• Experience with testing various elements in product/solution design.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex data solutions into simplified explanations for non-technical business stakeholders.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella/PAYE engagement model.