Business Analyst Lead

Admiral is looking for an experienced Business Analyst to lead and develop our BA capability within the I.T. department at Admiral, whilst also driving forward requirements on strategic projects. The Business Analyst role is to elicit, analyse, specify, and validate the business needs that link directly to operational activities. Whilst carrying out BA duties, the lead will coach and develop the team and take a proactive role in reviewing team processes, tool and technologies to ensure optimum delivery capability.

Managerial / Lead duties

• Coaching and mentoring.
• Performance appraisals and feedback (both ongoing and formally at annual appraisal).
• Regular 1 to 1 session (minimum monthly).
• Conflict management.
• Prioritising team workloads and allocation of work to the team in line with requirements of the business and department.
• Taking a proactive role in reviewing team processes, tool and technologies to ensure optimum delivery capability.
• Developing staff by ensuring they are adequately trained and are implementing agreed personal development plans.
• Attending I.T. Team Manager meetings and other forums as required to raise awareness of the team and their duties and report on progress.
• Planning and assisting with the recruitment process to ensure targeted staffing levels are maintained.
• Promoting awareness of and adhering to departmental Quality Measures
• Being pro-active in seeking out solutions to issues being experienced by team members.

Business Analyst Duties

Additional to leadership duties, the successful candidate will be expected to balance their capacity and:

• Organize and facilitate workshops.
• Undertake stakeholder analysis.
• Create and review Business Requirement Documents and User Stories.
• Document and manage requirements through to delivery.
• Liaise with the Project Manager with requirements updates.
• Enable and support UAT.
• Undertake as-is, to-be and gap analysis.
• Identify and help manage risks, issues and dependencies.
• Liaise with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Job Requirements

• Substantial experience in managing, coaching and leading teams.
• Experience of documenting and implementing a Business Analysis Framework within a team and adopting to industry best practice stands to conduct Business Analysis activities.
• Substantial experience in writing high level and detailed business requirements documents (BRDs and user stories) and reviewing/contributing to change request documentation.
• Proven experience in developing as-is and to-be process models, use case analysis or user stories is required.
• Familiarity with phases and deliverables associated with systems development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, both upstream and downstream from requirements.
• Solid interview and analysis skills, ability to run requirements management workshops, relationship management skills and requirements facilitation.
• Ability to synthesize reporting requirements including formats, common themes and patterns.
• Experience of working closely with third party vendors for the delivery of technology.
• General knowledge of or direct exposure to a functioning Project Office in terms of structure, process, milestone delivery, governance.
• Use of Microsoft products including Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio.
• Exposure to enterprise requirements analysis tools such as Enterprise Architecture or Jira is desired.
• Exposure to and appreciation of different cultures/workstyles/implications of varied time zones upon project communications.
• Experience with working closely with third party vendors for delivery of technology in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies.
• Ability to conduct requirements engineering for the analysis, documentation, coordination and management of requirements, whilst working closely with testers and SME’s.

Desirable:

• Formal business analysis and/or project management training (e.g. PMP, ISEB / BCS, Prince2 or IIBA).
• Product Owner awareness/experience or qualifications.
• Interest in the industry and relevant industry tools.
• Experience of working with consultants and vendors, especially with regards to assisting in writing RFIs and RFPs.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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