Key responsibilities

 

Allianz Partners’ Organization Management department has a unique and exciting job opportunity available for someone who enjoys challenging the status quo and seeking out creative ways to support the company`s ever more complex commercial processes with innovative and robust business and IT solutions. 

 

The candidate required will possess the right balance of technical business analysis knowhow along with influencing and relationship building skills necessary to drive projects to a successful conclusion. Ultimately, this candidate will be responsible for leading the investigation of business systems, identifying areas for improvement and bridging the needs of the business with the use of IT.

 

As a Senior Business Analyst, you are in charge of the following responsibilities: 
 

Identify areas for improvement, understand business need, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current processes. Identify and drive agreement of scope with senior stakeholders. Perform root cause analysis of problems, conduct workshops and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into functional requirement specifications. Assist the business stakeholders in prioritizing business requirements and defining new business processes. Produce detailed, high quality and clear documentation. Work closely with the technical team during the implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects. Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business stakeholders at all levels during the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change. Drive deliverables to completion within challenging timelines ensuring collaboration and effective communication with all stakeholders. Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely. Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed have been delivered and are ready for release. Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process.  Business travel will be required a few times per year.                                                      

What you bring  

 

5-10 years of experience as a Business Analyst. Educated to degree level. Knowledge of Financial Services/ Insurance Industry Sector useful but not essential. Strong Communication (verbal & written) and Interpersonal Skills. Ability to work effectively within a team environment. Experience working in agile. Demonstrable ability to think "outside of the box" and innovate. Proven ability to drive and manage change. Comfortable challenging the ideas of others. Strong influencing skills and commercial acumen. Capable of working across borders and cross organizational boundaries. Proficiency in English is required; proficiency in German is advantageous.

What we offer  

 

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring  that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs.

All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance. 

 

62774 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

 

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.