Data Business Analyst

Senior Data Business Analyst Contract Inside IR35 Birmingham 6 Months (Initially) £550/day As a Senior Data Business Analyst within Data Management, you will partner with the business to deliver, unlock and enable value from our data, developing both short-term quick wins and being part of the long-term strategic roadmap. You will work with the Head of Data Strategy and Delivery as a Data Business Analysis focal point to lead, guide and standardise my clients best practices. Through hands on delivery, you will play a pivotal role in driving analytical excellence and ensuring alignment between business objectives and data initiatives. Responsibilities • Support the Head of Data Strategy and Delivery to lead, standardise and embed a best practice approach to business data analysis across the wider Data landscape. • Lead and deliver within blended work-streams from requirements gathering to insight delivery. • Partner with the business to gain an in-depth understanding and analyse my clients data, business and technology landscape in order to drive value from our data. • Unlock and deliver business value through designing, developing and enhancing our analytics capabilities generating valuable business insights and driving key business decisions. • Elicit, understand, challenge and translate the business value into data requirements, creating appropriate user stories of the right quality at the right time. • Analyse, document and challenge end to end data processes and customer journeys, identifying new opportunities and working with the Data Management and IT team to build data models and dashboards to support this. • Suggest data improvement opportunities and solution designs, including associated costs, risks and benefits. • Be the link between the internal stakeholder, data team and technical teams regarding people, process and technology throughout the data lifecycle, ensuring ownership of the shared outcome you are centred around. • Ensure data solution designs align with Enterprise Architecture principles as well as data design principles and strategy decisions made within the data team, ensuring guidance is sought if necessary. • Advocate standardisation, share industry and technology trends to guide others towards driving business value through data. • Be a guardian for data quality and data governance through the organisation and how it must be respected as a key performance driver. Required Skills • 7+ years Insurance industry experience (preferably London Markets) • Proven experience working in a lead or managerial analysis position • Demonstrable knowledge of how to create and implement best practice frameworks • A good understanding of Insurance lifecycles • An understanding of data governance and data product delivery practices and methodologies • Experience bringing people together, running delivery of and working in Agile • Skilled in the analysis and documentation of data flows with effective user story writing and management • Experience in SQL, Power BI, Snowflake or similar • Exposure to a range of data technology platforms across a global enterprise, with experience of cloud technology desirable • Able to communicate complex ideas, issues, and designs to varied audiences