Your role at a glance
We have two brand new opportunities here at Legal & General within our Retail business for two Business Analysts within Mortgage Services. The Business Analyst will work both independently and alongside other BA’s and project managers to undertake detailed requirements analysis, document processes, contribute to business cases and perform user acceptance testing. You will be writing detailed requirement specifications and contributing to the production of solution documentation while supporting delivery of solutions and ensuring the requirements are met through build, test, and implementation. You'll have the opportunity to work on both BAU change and transformation.
Legal and General welcomes applications from individuals who have taken a career break of 18 months or more. Successful returner applicants will benefit from transition support provided by Women Returners and join a cohort of other returners on the Legal & General Career Returners Programme.
This role could be based in Barnsley, Cardiff, Hove or London (hybrid)
What you'll be doing
- The definition and agreement of requirements for all parties impacted by an approved change, including the traceability of these requirements through build, test, implementation, and benefits realisation to evidence and ensure delivery meets the specified acceptance criteria for the change.
- You'll be completing business analysis tasks, adhering to L&G Mortgage Service's and L&G standards, ensuring there is consistent high-quality output to support data-led decision making
- Co-ordinating and managing the analysis activity for any assigned change, this may include facilitation and coordination of requirements workshops, solution discussions, conversations and decision making with stakeholders.
- You'll have the opportunity to provide expertise from the perspective of the role. Ensuring risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies are raised and communicated through to the project, programme, or Sponsor as appropriate to ensure that the Sponsor can make data-led decisions.
- Working with the technical delivery partners (L&G Mortgage Service and 3rd party) to both inform the initiation and analysis phase as well as ensuring the high-quality delivery of designs and solutions that meet the acceptance criteria of the signed off requirements.
What we're looking for
Through the selection process we will be looking for a blend of the right behaviours and characteristics alongside demonstrable experience in a Business Analyst role.
- We would love to see some experience of agile and waterfall delivery.
- Proven track record of delivery of good quality analysis and requirements gathering techniques.
- The ability to demonstrate knowledge and experience of best practice in Business Analysis.
- Strong stakeholder management experience up to Managing director Level
Benefits
When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.
If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.
About L&G
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
About the business area
Life can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim at Legal & General Retail is to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that’s important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we’ve brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we’re a fast-growing division with big, customer-centered ambitions.
Our commitments to you
Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.
How to find out more
If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Andy Banks at andy.banks@landg.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-banks/).
If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.