Senior Business Analyst

**About Lombard International Assurance**

Lombard International Assurance is a leading Luxembourg-based provider of insurance-based wealth solutions across Europe. A part of Utmost Group, Lombard International’s solutions are largely based on unit-linked insurance policies, serving the needs of affluent, high net worth (HNW), and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals.

**_On 30 December 2024, Utmost Group announced it had completed the acquisition of Lombard International Assurance Holdings Sarl and the company will be fully rebranded to Utmost Luxembourg S.A. by the end of 2025.
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**About Utmost Group plc**

**About Utmost International**

Utmost International is a leading provider of insurance-based wealth solutions. Utmost international operates across the UK, Europe Latin America; Asia, and the Middle East. Its solutions are largely based on unit-linked insurance policies, serving the needs of affluent, high net worth (HNW), and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals.

On a proforma basis at HY 2024 following the acquisition of Lombard International Assurance Holdings Sarl, Utmost International would have managed £103bn of assets under administration on behalf of approximately 210,000 policyholders.

**Your role - Are you ready for a challenge?**

Within the Transformation Office (TO), Business Analysis team, we are looking to fill in the position of the Senior Business Analyst with the mission of helping guide our organization to the future.

TO is responsible for integrating all transformation initiatives throughout our organisation providing the strategic alignment and prioritization of all change initiatives. TO makes sure project management and business analysis methodologies are applied across the organization and is the owner of the overall change management process, being the critical link between executive vision and they daily activities of Lombard International Assurance.

Your responsibilities will be as follows:

- Provide the link between the customer, development team and any third-party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle;
- Support projects and changes within the organization, analysing and challenging current processes with an eye on improvement and automation to facilitate both stability and growth;
- Perform detailed analysis of the business processes. Find areas of waste, duplication, or frequent errors (processes that are not as effective as desired). Contribute to identify proper change, document it, get stakeholders support and monitor implementation;
- Estimate workload needed to perform a business analysis of any change;
- Collect, understand and transmit the business requirements of assigned changes and translate these into functional specifications;
- Analyse and document business processes;
- Estimate workload needed to perform sanity checks of a requirement / change specified by a business analysis;
- Perform sanity checks and conduct user acceptance tests if needed;
- Participate to the review process of analysis produced by peers;
- Participate to the review of our processes, suggest improvements and contribute to build the Process management framework;
- Ensure continuous improvements and micro adjustments to the changes processes to maintain efficient operations;
- Report on a regular basis to the line manager: status, risks and issues of outstanding analysis and tests.

**Your profile - Have you got what it takes to become our Senior Business Analyst?**
- Master degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or similar field;
- At least 10 years’ experience as Business Analyst, preferably in life insurance sector but at least experience in Finance (Wealth Management, Asset Management or Private banking );
- Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions;
- Excellent analytical, technical and conceptual thinking skills, able to deliver pragmatic solutions;
- Excellent planning, extremely organized with strong time-management skills;
- Ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis and build business case;
- Excellent documentation skills, written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills;
- Strong capacity to question and optimize existing processes;
- Comfortable working with both business and technical departments;
- Ability to work independently and within a team;
- Ability to integrate a face-paced international environment with resistance to stress;
- Continued ambition to further develop and learn, fostering an interest in innovative technologies;
- Good knowledge of project management tool JIRA;
- Fluency in English (excellent written and oral communication).

**We offer you**

Sitting at the crossroads of private banking, asset management and insurance, we operate in a well-established and fast-growing segment of the financial services industry. We offer a thriving and entrepreneurial work environment, with the opportunity to work across multiple geographies