Reinsurance Lead Business Analyst

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Description:

Guy Carpenter Reinsurance Operations are changing the way we work globally & seek business facing candidates for a Lead Business Analyst, who, ideally can work out of our London office.

What can you expect:

• To join in the early stages of the biggest transformation programme Guy Carp/MMC have ever undertaken.
• To be at the forefront of change management globally, for our Reinsurance Broking business.

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will help us deliver new and improved Reinsurance products for our Broker clients.

Highly business facing, you will play a critical role in translating business strategies and objectives into business requirements.

With responsibility for identifying, verifying, and documenting functional requirements using Requirements Management methodology and tools.

Investigate, designing, and documenting "as is" and "to be" business processes, ensuring a clear understanding of requirements within the development community.

You will have the freedom to make valuable contributions of the team, helping us evolve best practice and delivering the strategic roadmap for the key technology capabilities within MMC.

What you need to have:

• Working experience in or knowledge of the Reinsurance broking market.
• Strong, practical IT project experience working as a BA, Lead or Senior Business Analyst.
• Very strong communication, negotiation, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in building engaging relationships with technical and non-technical teams.
• Practical, current experience with Agile methodologies.

What makes you stand out:

• Understanding of treaty and or facultative reinsurance
• Knowledge of or practical experience with the MERN tech stack.
• Experience with compliance and data regulations, such as GDPR, NYDFS, etc.
• Agile or Project Management certifications.
• Experience with documenting requirements in Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) and Confluence

We will rely on you to:

• Translate business strategies and objectives into clear and concise business requirements.
• Provide traceability of business requirements to IT solutions and ensure system testing encompasses existing capabilities of the solution as well as future function point requirements.
• Identify, verify, and document functional requirements using Requirements Management methodology and tools.
• Identify data elements and provide data mappings/dictionaries.
• Investigate, design, redesign, and document "as is" and "to be" business processes.
• Ensure the development community has a clear and complete understanding of the requirements.
• Conduct and facilitate acceptance tests for solutions with the user community, including the development of UAT test scenarios and test scripts.
• Develop, deliver, and evaluate training and supplemental materials.
• Conduct and examine feasibility studies/impact assessments regarding the implementation of IT solutions against current state parameters (process, application use-cases, and non-functional impact).
• Partner with Business/IT to define and manage the scope with each release.

What you will be rewarded with:

• We offer and embrace a hybrid working model that nurtures a collaborative working environment in the office 3 days per week allowing 2 days per week to be spent working on a remote basis.
• Competitive Benefits Package including: 27 days annual leave, up to 4 days flexible bank holidays, excellent pension contributions, private medical cover, life assurance, income protection, employee assistance program, plus a range of flexible benefits including the option to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday per year, cycle to work, dental insurance, health assessments plus many more.
• Generous Family Leave including: 6 months paid maternity leave, 4 months paid paternity leave, 6 months paid adoption leave plus shared parental leave options. To help ease the transition when you return to work you will be able to work 8 weeks at 80% of your normal work pattern and receive 100% of your normal salary.

Marsh is the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser. With more than 45,000 colleagues operating in more than 130 countries, Marsh serves commercial and individual clients with data driven risk solutions and advisory services. Marsh is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the leading global professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. With annual revenue of over $20 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [email protected].

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person. office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.