Senior Business Analyst
Role Overview
The Senior Business Analyst works in Markel International's Change Delivery team, shaping business and technology change across the insurance value chain.
The role translates business needs into practical solutions, supports implementation and adoption, and contributes to continuous improvement.
Works with teams across underwriting, claims, finance, actuarial, operations, technology, architecture, and delivery.
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Role overview
The Senior Business Analyst works in Markel International's Change Delivery team, shaping business and technology change across the insurance value chain.
The role translates business needs into practical solutions, supports implementation and adoption, and contributes to continuous improvement.
Works with teams across underwriting, claims, finance, actuarial, operations, technology, architecture, and delivery.
Business analysis and requirements
- Elicit, analyse, and document requirements through workshops, interviews, and process modelling.
- Analyse processes and systems end to end to identify challenges, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Assess solution options and translate business needs into user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
Stakeholder engagement and delivery
- Partner with business teams and senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions constructively, and support decisions where priorities overlap.
- Align with technology, architecture, and delivery colleagues on requirements and solution design; communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support solution design, development, and configuration; define test approaches, support user acceptance testing, and resolve defects.
- Support implementation, readiness, training, adoption, and benefits tracking.
Team contribution
- Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reporting, and management information.
- Improve analysis standards, templates, requirements management, documentation, and traceability; support junior analysts and continuous improvement.
Must-haves
- Experience in a business analysis role within the insurance industry.
- End-to-end analysis experience across business processes and multiple systems.
- Proven requirements elicitation, documentation, and management across the project lifecycle using Agile and/or waterfall approaches.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including investigation of complex issues and root-cause identification.
- Data skills, including interrogating and interpreting data.
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