Business Data Analyst

Business Analyst - Data & AnalyticsWest Sussex or Manchester, hybrid with 1 day per week required in the office£40,000 - £54,000 per annum basic salaryAn exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well established, leading organisation in the insurance and technology sector, renown for its outstanding working culture.You will make a strong candidate if you:Are highly collaborative and enjoy building relationships with stakeholders from a diverse range of disciplines.Possess proven experience as a data and analytics ‘translator’ in either data platforms (data warehouses, data lakes and data ingestion), Business Intelligence/Analytics or Artificial Intelligence/Machine LearningYou enjoy taking responsibility for delivery and working in a fast-paced organisation where change is a constant. Learning, evolving, adapting. When the data speaks, we listen.Job Responsibilities:Responsible for developing clear, robust, and accurate data specific user stories and requirements.Conducting thorough data business analysis, including challenging perceptions and embedded thinking, to ensure that data requirements move the business forward and achieve outcomes.Facilitate workshops and deliver presentations to capture requirements and generate feedback.Act as an internal consultant, interpreting user requests and where appropriate, making suggestions for better/alternative ways of obtaining and presenting the required information.Create wireframes, mock-ups and POCs as part of the requirements process to validate needs and feasibility.Apply agile and lean practices into all aspects of your work, seeking to optimise flow and reduce wait time wherever possible.Agree business data definitions as part of the requirement process, that inform both the technical design and support the implementation of the data governance standards.Create data mapping artefacts, including definition of transformations required, to inform the design and build process.Become a trusted Data SME for the data subject areas and business domains in which you work.Work alongside data engineering to quickly address points of clarification, iterate requirements, and facilitate business engagement where necessary.Actively support the testing process, ensuring traceability of requirement to solution, and helping to co-ordinate and deliver user acceptance testing.Support Business Analysts in other parts of the business around data specific requirements analysis methods and practices.Adhere to the Company values at all times and encourage others to demonstrate these.Ensure compliance with company and other relevant standards/regulations at all times.