Primary Details Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Employee Senior IT Business Analyst - Duck Creek Reinsurance London Permanent (Hybrid) At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future. We are an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries. The Opportunity Are you an experienced IT Business Analyst with a wealth of SQL and Power suite experience ? This role may be for you to work with the Duck Creek Reinsurance Business Lead on a number of different projects across QBE. This role will be responsible for supporting the delivery of change to the business by leading, shaping, and directing analysis activity. If you are serious about your technology career and disrupting the lumbering ‘norm’ that is synonymous with financial services IT, then we would love to hear from you. Your new role Working with Project Manager and Duck Creek ReinsuranceGlobal Business Lead, you'll support business change initiatives by assessing needs, capturing requirements, designing solutions, and delivering results. You'll also continuously identify areas for improvement, driving efficiencies and fostering positive change in the analysis process. Main responsibilities: Collaborate with stakeholders, project managers, developers, and solution architects to implement business-led changes and support business objectives. Align initiatives with departmental and business unit vision, values, and strategy. Plan analysis activities, create detailed work breakdown plans, and ensure timely delivery of project objectives. Assist in developing project plans and budgets; manage analysis activities to meet project goals and deadlines. Work with the business to analyse problems and opportunities, challenge where necessary, and capture high-level requirements. Support analysis activities, including gathering requirements, creating process maps, defining business and technical requirements, addressing QA issues, assessing systems for improvements, collaborating on design specifications, and ensuring solutions meet business needs. Support the project manager in validating test plans and/or creating a UAT model; facilitate user acceptance testing and report results. Support the implementation phase by applying knowledge used to create the solution. Regularly review and monitor risks and issues, make recommendations, and own risks related to analysis when delegated by the project manager. Manage and motivate business and project team resources, including third-party resources, to deliver analysis that meets business needs. About you With a problem-solving mindset, you'll inspire creativity and implement new ideas while specialising in areas such as process, data, business, or systems analysis to improve business procedures, workflows, and tools. Skills you'll need: Advanced knowledge of SQL/Oracle / Experience working with relational database Advanced knowledge of the Power suite (Power BI / Power Automate / Power Apps) Familiarity of systems development lifecycle (SDLC) and disciplines preferably within a multi-vendor environment. Ability to define business analysis approach for complex programs/projects Ability to effectively critique business analysis and project documents Ability to engage with Business and IT colleagues to accurately convey and resolve issues found during analysis in a well-reasoned fashion. Ability to challenge constructively on requirements or assumptions whilst maintaining positive and professional relationships. Impartiality – accurately reflects facts. Always maintains an objective & balanced view Proactive - looks ahead for potential problems and takes preventative or mitigating action in advance. Self-Drive - responds to challenging priorities with a sense of urgency and pace. Ability to understand, capture and document requirements in a structured and efficient manner Why QBE? At My Best? ?At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”.It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA.?? LI-Hybrid We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.?? QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation (https://careers/flex-qbe/).? With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re