Business Data Analyst

Business Analyst - Data & Analytics

West Sussex or Manchester, hybrid with 1 day per week required in the office

£40,000 - £54,000 per annum basic salary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well established, leading organisation in the insurance and technology sector, renown for its outstanding working culture.

You will make a strong candidate if you:

• Are highly collaborative and enjoy building relationships with stakeholders from a diverse range of disciplines.
• Possess proven experience as a data and analytics 'translator' in either data platforms (data warehouses, data lakes and data ingestion), Business Intelligence/Analytics or Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
• You enjoy taking responsibility for delivery and working in a fast-paced organisation where change is a constant. Learning, evolving, adapting. When the data speaks, we listen.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing clear, robust, and accurate data specific user stories and requirements.
• Conducting thorough data business analysis, including challenging perceptions and embedded thinking, to ensure that data requirements move the business forward and achieve outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops and deliver presentations to capture requirements and generate feedback.
• Act as an internal consultant, interpreting user requests and where appropriate, making suggestions for better/alternative ways of obtaining and presenting the required information.
• Create wireframes, mock-ups and POCs as part of the requirements process to validate needs and feasibility.
• Apply agile and lean practices into all aspects of your work, seeking to optimise flow and reduce wait time wherever possible.
• Agree business data definitions as part of the requirement process, that inform both the technical design and support the implementation of the data governance standards.
• Create data mapping artefacts, including definition of transformations required, to inform the design and build process.
• Become a trusted Data SME for the data subject areas and business domains in which you work.
• Work alongside data engineering to quickly address points of clarification, iterate requirements, and facilitate business engagement where necessary.
• Actively support the testing process, ensuring traceability of requirement to solution, and helping to co-ordinate and deliver user acceptance testing.
• Support Business Analysts in other parts of the business around data specific requirements analysis methods and practices.
• Adhere to the Company values at all times and encourage others to demonstrate these.
• Ensure compliance with company and other relevant standards/regulations at all times.