Business Analyst MA Graduate Edinburgh 2024

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The role & responsibilities

The role will be focused on managing and implementing Insurance’s operational processes to provide good financial insight into the business for the senior management team. The role sits within the central function within Insurance, and requires collaborative working with a range of other internal stakeholders and external stakeholders.

This is a internal facing role, and strong senior management skills are essential. The business analyst must successfully align stakeholder expectations and provide a robust approach for jointly managing issues.

The role also provides the opportunity to be part of a team that builds/improves data collection systems and processes to improve how the insurance business operates across all their function units.

The business analyst will be joining a fast growing business within a top tier global ERM software provider to the banking and insurance industries, with opportunities for development and involvement in challenging and rewarding projects.

A willingness to engage, learn and contribute to the functional and technical challenges on internal projects is a must. This is a great opportunity to gain rapid exposure to blue chip clients while helping a new team develop its implementation and deployment processes.

The position may require ad hoc travel in Americas, EMEA and APAC.

Primary responsibilities

As a business analyst your primary responsibilities include:

• Business Processes.
  • Managing and maintaining a historical database of key financial metrics
  • Running reports with insights to key management or financial data to help understand business performance across all insurance product lines.
• Financial Data
  • Liaising with internal departments within MA to provide key financial information to ensure accurate client: contract booking, sales and revenue actuals management and forecasting.
  • Focusing on the AXIS product line as a priority.

• Collaborate with colleagues in Insurance to share knowledge, provide support and cover for when needed

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Sciences/IT/Engineering or similar is preferred
• Relevant professional qualifications (e.g. Prince 2, MSP, PMI certification (e.g. PMP®), IPMA
• A strong business process focused orientation with the drive and enthusiasm required to achieve results and ensure stakeholder satisfaction.
• Strong track record of successful and timely delivery of software implementation projects (experience of the vendor side an advantage)
• Project management experience in an insurance environment or financial software organisation serving insurers (experience related to Regulatory Capital and/or Solvency II projects an advantage)
• Experience in managing remote teams
• Experience in managing vendor relationships
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with an ability to communicate complex business and technical concepts to a wide audience.
• The ability to actively oversee and manage all Functional Requirements, Functional Specifications, Technical Specifications, Test Plans and User Acceptance Testing for assigned projects.
• Fluency in French & English is essential. Fluency in other European languages (Italian, German, Spanish) is beneficial

Technical

• Understanding of technical concepts, development techniques, operating systems and database subsystems such as Oracle and SQL Server preferred
• Understanding of solvency and capital calculation processes preferred
• Experience of managing Data Mapping between systems of financial and risk data an advantage

ERS Insurance is responsible for developing and delivering ERM software to the Insurance, Pensions & Wealth Management industries.

Working at Moody’s

Our views matter. So will yours.

The views of each Moody’s employee matter and, collectively, those views contribute to our ability to serve credit-sensitive markets worldwide. Diverse opinions are encouraged and leverage the depth and breadth of experiences that our employees bring to work each day.

We expect Moody’s employees to be accessible and collaborative and, in return, Moody’s offers a work environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, analytical rigor and collegiality. Our people and our environment uphold our core values of integrity, insight, intellectual leadership, inclusion and independence.

Moody’s is an essential component of the global capital markets, providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets.

Moody’s Corporation is the parent company of Moody’s Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and securities, and Moody’s Analytics, which offers leading-edge software, advisory services and research for credit and economic analysis and financial risk management. The Corporation, which reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 2011, employs approximately 6,100 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 28 countries. 

We behave according to our values

Moody’s espouses strong corporate values which we expect all employees to behave consistently with:

• Integrity – through holding yourself to standards of honesty, fairness and transparency
• Independence – by working collaboratively and through a vigorous and objective view of the facts
• Insight – to help drive informed decisions for our clients in their business
• Intellectual Leadership – by leading market thinking and seeking innovation
• Inclusivity – to embrace our broad range of cultures, experience and backgrounds.