Data Business Analyst

Life can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim at Legal & General Retail is to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that’s important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we’ve brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we’re a fast-growing division with big, customer-centered ambitions. 

Legal and General Retail’s Data Operations team in LGI are looking to hire a data business analyst to lead and develop a business analysis capability. The team is tasked with helping the business derive value from its enterprise data by delivering a modern data-platform and delivering data solutions to support reporting, analysis and data science capability across it’s cloud warehousing platform.

This role will see you curating strategic requirements, working with key stakeholders and SME’s to understand business demands, determining business value and developing the pathway to delivering data products. This process will involve engagement with technical and non-technical audiences to build user stories, manage change and drive the development lifecycle through to completion.

What you’ll be doing

• Collaborating with key stakeholders within the Retail Business to elicit business needs and to translate them into clear and concise business requirements.
• Managing requirement prioritizing by factoring in time, quality, and cost.
• Managing multiple work streams across the Retail division
• Facilitating workshops and meetings to initially gather requirements and then keep stakeholders and management informed.
• Managing customer expectations ensuring that delivery timescales are realistic, achievable, and communicated effectively.
• Maintaining control of change management process, adapting to Agile delivery framework.
• Building a network of contacts internal and external to the business to support change and expediting data solutions.

• Relevant professional qualifications in Business Analysis or related specialism or demonstrable evidence of relevant business/work experience at this level
• Experience of Agile Delivery Framework
• Extensive experience in Business analysis and proven delivery track record of change / transformation.
• Excellent communications, interpersonal and presentation skills to influence internal and external stakeholders
• The willingness to embrace new technologies and influence other parts of the business to adopt
• The ability to demonstrate flexibility and pragmatism
• Background in working in Data environment and delivering data solutions at scale
• Ability to communicate complex subject matter to audiences with varying technical understanding.
• Ability to communicate to all levels of stakeholders to engage with technical colleagues and non-technical stakeholders.
• Creates an inspiring vision and clear direction that nurtures an open and honest & collaborative team ethos

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.