Senior Business Analyst

About The Role Team – Portfolio Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in any of our Vitality Offices. Full time hours.Please note this is a 12 month FTC position.We are happy to discuss flexible working! Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Process modelling
• Stakeholder engagement and management
• Scope and high-level requirements documentation 

What this role is all about: The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for the production of Business Analysis artefacts throughout the Business Change lifecycle, utilising a range of techniques and methods to elicit, verify and trace the successful delivery of requirements. Key Actions

• Deliver high-quality business analysis across the full change lifecycle, including ideation, initiation, design, shaping and delivery
• Identify organisational impacts, define and document requirements, and ensure full end-to-end traceability to delivered solutions
• Manage and escalate project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, offering mitigation plans and owning items where appropriate
• Work closely with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure designs meet functional and non-functional requirements
• Support project teams in establishing effective requirements management approaches and realistic delivery estimates
• Drive continuous improvement of the Business Analysis Practice by leading initiatives, conducting peer reviews and promoting best-practice standards
• Coach, supervise and support junior Business Analysts, acting as a point of escalation for BA-related activities during delivery
• Ensure alignment with change management processes and encourage best-practice adherence across project teams

What do you need to thrive?

• Experience working with stakeholders at all levels within an organisation
• Has a close link to wider industry practices & the Business Analyst profession
• Experience working within complex matrix management environment
• Experience producing a range of analysis artefacts
• Has coached others in the proficient use of analysis artefacts
• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall change environments
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to multi task in an effective and organised manner
• Evidence of identifying opportunities to continually improve ways of working
• Excellent understanding of business analysis approaches and methodologies

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities! If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.About The Company We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.Diversity & Inclusion At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.Vitality’s approach to sustainability Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.