Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst  

About Us  

Jean Edwards Consulting is a specialist technology consultancy serving the global reinsurance and insurance markets. We help clients modernise their operations through AI-driven solutions, contract automation tools, and expert-led project delivery. With a global team spread across five offices, we help clients transform their operations and drive long-term efficiency. We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our growing team and take a leadership role in delivering high-quality solutions for our international insurance and reinsurance clients. 

Our headquarters are in Brighton, UK with additional offices in Switzerland, the US, Latvia, Nigeria, and South Africa. We work with a diverse portfolio of international clients across the financial services sector, with a strong focus on insurance, reinsurance, and the Lloyd’s market. 

We welcome applications for both permanent and contractor roles, with salary and benefits packages determined by location, contract type, and level of experience. 

Why Join Us    At our core, we believe in delivering excellence while fostering a collaborative and supportive environment. Joining our team means working on high-impact projects in the global insurance and reinsurance sector, with opportunities to shape products used across multiple markets. You’ll enjoy the autonomy to make a real difference, the support of an experienced leadership team, and a culture that values innovation, growth, and work-life balance. 

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with a strong foundation in accounting, finance, financial analysis, or financial services to join our team.

The role combines hands-on business analysis and project delivery with the opportunity to lead and mentor a small team of Business Analysts. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working at the intersection of business, finance, data, and technology, with the ability to understand complex financial processes, translate business needs into practical system requirements, and work closely with technical teams to deliver effective solutions.

The successful candidate should have a genuine interest in financial modelling, financial analysis, data interpretation, and process improvement, and be able to apply these skills when analysing business requirements and developing solutions.

Working closely with stakeholders—including clients, project managers, QA, IT development teams, and senior leadership—you will lead requirements gathering, create and prioritise Agile user stories, oversee solution delivery and user acceptance testing, and contribute to the long-term development of our products and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support a small team of Business Analysts, providing guidance, coaching, and performance feedback.

• Work with clients and internal stakeholders to capture, analyse, refine, and prioritise business and financial requirements.

• Analyse existing business processes, financial workflows, systems, and data to identify gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

• Translate complex business and financial requirements into clear functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and other relevant documentation.

• Oversee the delivery of multiple projects, including process improvements, software implementations, system enhancements, data migrations, reconciliations, and financial or data-focused projects.

• Own and manage prioritised product backlogs, define user stories, and work with development teams to ensure the timely delivery of new features, enhancements, and fixes.

• Apply financial and analytical thinking to support the design of systems, processes, reports, calculations, and business rules.

• Develop, review, or contribute to financial models, forecasts, analytical models, and financial reporting requirements where relevant to projects.

• Analyse financial data and business information to support decision-making, identify trends, validate assumptions, and ensure the accuracy of system outputs.

• Lead or coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, scenario development, defect identification, resolution tracking, and sign-off.

• Validate system calculations, financial outputs, reports, reconciliations, and data integrity against agreed business requirements.

• Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring effective communication and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

• Significant experience working as a Business Analyst, Financial Analyst, Management Accountant, Business Systems Analyst, or in a similar analytical role, preferably within financial services.

• Strong understanding of accounting and financial principles, with the ability to understand and analyse financial processes, transactions, reports, and data.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with complex financial and business data.

• Experience working with software development or technology teams and translating business requirements into actionable technical requirements.

• Strong experience with Agile methodologies, including backlog management, user story definition, prioritisation, and acceptance criteria.

• Strong ability to produce high-quality functional documentation, process maps, business rules, and other business analysis artefacts.

Nice to Have

• Experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or the London Market, particularly Lloyd's-related systems and processes.

• Professional qualification or progress towards a qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CFA, or a relevant financial/accounting qualification.

• Experience developing or working extensively with financial models, forecasting models, pricing models, investment models, or financial planning tools.

• Strong Excel skills, including experience with advanced formulas, PivotTables, financial modelling, data analysis, and reporting.

• Experience working with financial reporting, accounting systems, ERP systems, or financial data platforms.

• Experience with data migration, reconciliation, data validation, and financial data integrity.

• Proactive approach, with the ability to build strong, trusted relationships quickly.