Senior Business Analyst

Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft; City of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in the City of London is seeking a senior IT project manager to oversee digital transformation initiatives in Commercial Insurance. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in delivering complex IT projects, strong leadership abilities, and knowledge of core insurance platform installations. This role emphasizes developing strategic solutions, stakeholder management, and ensuring a consistent IT application landscape.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in delivering IT or digital projects in Commercial Insurance.
• Understanding of MGA and Lloyd's Market operating models.
• Clearly identified skills in project delivery and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and understand short- and long-term goals of business strategy.
• Support IT system implementation in Agile and Waterfall projects.
• Identify appropriate solutions under the guidance of enterprise architecture.

Skills

10+ years of experience in delivering IT or digital projects in Commercial Insurance

Experience with Insurance Core Insurance Platform installations

Proactive with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Strong leadership skills managing, coaching, and mentoring business analysts

Ability to influence and negotiate solutions

Demonstrated ability to work globally across businesses

Tools

Guidewire

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Develop a partnership with assigned business units to gain a thorough understanding of short‑ and long‑term goals of the business strategy to deliver quality and strategic solutions to the business clients that support business strategy
• Undertake the analysis requirements and demands across the value chain, providing key analytical skills that will enable business problems to be understood and the subsequent requirements for IT systems documented, tested and delivered
• Support the IT system implementation by taking on the lead role in Agile, Iterative and Waterfall system implementation projects
• Supporting the Project Manager in delivering the project plan on time and on budget. Follow project methodologies – One Essentials – as applicable
• Analyse business demand for IT system support, automation, and digitalisation of business processes
• Derive system requirements from business demands and translate into specifications – both on architectural and detail level
• Identification of appropriate solutions under the guidance of enterprise and solution architecture and subject matter experts. Follow Munich Re architecture patterns
• Actively drive towards a consistent, highly automated, resilient and future proof application and data landscape across MRSG to enable cost efficient digital business
• Ensure that supporting IT Systems, processes, and organisational changes can be deployed and supported effectively
• Assisting with the production of training material for new systems / processes
• Collaboration with business owners to ensure effective benefit realisation

Knowledge and Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in delivering IT or digital projects in Commercial Insurance.
• Experience with Insurance Core Insurance Platform installations, including greenfield and migration projects. Knowledge of Guidewire is a plus
• Understanding of MGA and Lloyd's Market operating models, including their unique challenges and requirements
• Recognized as proactive with strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex business and technical problems and develop creative solutions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• The ability to influence, including negotiating solutions, deadlines and commitments
• Strong leadership skills managing, coaching, and mentoring business analysts. The ability to motivate and guide business analysts on complex programs of work
• Demonstrated ability to work globally across businesses and international cultures to deliver results
• Successful coordination of complex project deliverables based on an understanding of the customer needs
• Demonstrated personal organizational skills and ability to coordinate the efforts of others involved in the delivery of projects
• A clear focus on internal customer satisfaction with an eye towards constant improvement and promoting efficiency changes

If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with everything outlined, or you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the candidate we are looking for!