Business Analyst (12-Mth FTC)

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations. Designed as a modern‑era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.

The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross‑product and cross‑platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric. Built to be resilient, Ascot maximises client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world‑class service — both pre‑ and post‑claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.

Job Purpose

Direct the initiation, discovery and delivery of work on multiple projects, with vying deadlines, on the Change portfolio. Utilise existing industry knowledge and change management skills to prioritise the needs of project stakeholders and define optimal business and/or technological processes and requirements. Contribute to the improvement and evolution of Ascot’s Business Analysis tooling and processes. Assist the Head of Change (HoC) in evolving the Change Management Framework and promoting its benefits across the Group.

Detailed Duties

• Ensure that all requirements captured meet the business needs and success criteria with a focus on controlling scope, budget and timescales.
• Extensive stakeholder engagement with peers and customers.
• Ensure stakeholder requirements are clear and understood through techniques such as process flows, use case diagrams and wireframes.
• Bring an inquisitive mind‑set, question accepted norms and promote continuous improvement.
• Excellent visual presentation skills with the ability to dissect complex issues and articulate options/solutions to stakeholders.
• Assist stakeholders in making the recommended changes, including helping to resolve any issues.
• Where necessary, act as a 'translator' between IT & customer needs to ensure clarity of what is required.
• Assist stakeholders in the embedding and handover of projects into business as usual.
• Contribute to the development and advancement of the Business Analysis framework.
• Contribute positively to Ascot’s Business Analyst Forum.

Person Specification

• Highly professional, energetic, diplomatic, calm, pragmatic and solution‑oriented.
• Demonstrates the confidence and communications skills required to work with people at all levels of the company.
• Demonstrate the behaviours and values always expected from others.
• Exceptional problem‑solving skills.
• Self‑starter who is able to think and act proactively.
• A willingness to be flexible and react appropriately to changing and/or conflicting demands.
• Strong Microsoft skills, in particular Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

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