Salary and Benefits: c.£70,000 – £80,000 (subject to experience) + bonus, excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance, electric vehicle scheme, 38 days holiday incl. Bank Holidays (pro-rated), plus 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more!
Career Family, Level & Title: Asset Management - Specialist Band 2
Job Type: Permanent, full time
Hiring Manager: Business Analyst Manager
Location: This role will be based in either of our Edinburgh / Wythall or Telford office, with time spent working in the office and at home. There will be some opportunity to travel to other Phoenix office locations. Please read about Phoenix Flex here
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
Context
This is an exciting new role in the Asset Management COO team, for a Lead Business Analyst to drive and lead business analysis for our sustainability function.
This is a key role within the team, taking ownership of the appropriate outcomes in relation to the requirements, considering how they feed into the wider Asset Management strategy to determine the priorities and dependencies.
In this role, you will be exposed to a broad range of implementation-focused activities including production and oversight of the change roadmap and, sharing and communicating any key dependencies to the appropriate Delivery Lead(s) or Project Manager(s), stakeholders and global suppliers.
Key Responsibilities
Managing Business Requirements
- Define, challenge, manage and prioritise business requirements throughout the lifecycle; from discovery through to implementation and sign off, to ensure maximum business value is delivered
- Carry out effective business impact assessments, including documentation of current and future state to determine how changes from the current to future process and structures will affect business units and roles.
- Translate and simplify technical information and business needs into more easily understood language, for relevant audiences
Technology & Tools
- Using various tools and technology in line with the asset management ways of working (i.e., Jira and Confluence)
- Provide support for the development process, involving all appropriate stakeholders, including all planned tasks from start to finish
Governance & Controls
- Establish appropriate Governance & control measures within projects which align with overall Change and Company standards
- Keeping technical and business knowledge up to date in area of expertise (e.g. relevant legislation changes, product rules)
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure that any solution meets the requirement, fits business design principles and is in line with the business case.
Solutions Design
- Perform analysis on 'Change Requests', 'Issues' and 'Risk'. Providing information, options and recommendations
- Work with all parties to ensure that any new or changed processes, systems or functionality implemented is fit for purpose. This includes providing support to the development and business teams undertaking UAT
- Proposing pragmatic, innovative, cost-effective solutions to business needs
Business Readiness / Implementation
- Work with business teams to support business readiness and production monitoring/proving activities, where appropriate
What we're looking for
Knowledge and Experience
- Demonstrated experience in an asset management environment; understanding of the complexities of the domain and the end-to-end life cycle of asset management including the reporting and regulations to ensure compliance
- Proven experience in leading in-depth business analysis service to design, build, test and implement solutions to support the strategic roadmap in a growth and transformational environment
- Experience in creation and analysis of functional specifications for technology systems
- Understanding of agile methodology
- Perform critical analysis on data gathered from multiple sources using data tooling, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into detail and propose informed solutions/support informed decisions
Technology & Tools
- Experience of using Microsoft Office, JIRA, Confluence and project collaborations
- Experience of working with Cloud based services such as AWS and Azure
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
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