Business Analyst

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Are you passionate about driving change and enabling business success? We are looking for a dynamic and detail-oriented Business Analyst to join our Group HR team. As a Business Analyst, you will play a crucial role in supporting the My HR Programme, a central pillar to our Group HR strategy. You will work across various HR business lines to bring new initiatives from ideation to implementation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing and facilitating workshops, stakeholder interviews, and discovery activities to define problem statements and elicit requirements
• Deriving and defining business requirements, working with other workstreams to drive problem resolutions and enable opportunities
• Supporting Workstream Delivery Leads in producing high-quality requirements and other BA artefacts from feasibility analysis to delivery
• Acting as an expert counsel to bring structure to vision and ideas, conducting feasibility to shape business cases
• Managing and influencing senior stakeholder alignment and communication across multiple business areas and divisions
• Scoping and shaping the analysis approach, identifying best practice opportunities to develop the target ideation process
• Capturing and documenting Target Operating Models, incorporating processes, organisation, technology, and information themes
• Documenting requirements and managing backlog items, liaising with technical delivery teams throughout the change lifecycle

Who we’re looking for:

• Business analysis qualification highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks, waterfall methodologies, backlog definition, and prioritisation techniques
• Extensive experience in business analysis, preferably in a financial or technology industry, with multiple software delivery methodologies
• Proficiency in tools commonly used in Agile environments such as JIRA and Confluence
• The ability to work to tight deadlines as well as holding a track record of operating and delivering in large scale change programmes
• Ability to work independently, be highly self-motivated, and thrive in a dynamic environment
• Structured approach to analysis and documentation using recognised tools and techniques
• Confident working with ambiguity and facilitating a team to consensus on requirement decisions

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.