Consulting, Data - Business Analyst, Senior Associate

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Job description

A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.As a member of the team, you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Essential Experience

• Consulting experience (5 years+) of working with clients to define and improve business processes with a focus on using data solutions to meet client challenges and needs

• A good understanding of data-related challenges within the insurance industry, as well as the process of using cloud data solutions to address these challenges through client engagement and formal documentation of functional requirements

• Must be able to articulate the solutions to senior stakeholders (both client and within the engagement team), while also ensuring the solutions are feasible from a technology perspective, and also functionally and financially achievable

• Experience working as a business analyst across at least 2 financial transformation programmes, at least one of which demonstrates good involvement in the full lifecycle activities of a cloud data platform implementation

Demonstrable experience in several of the following activities

• Performing granular and detailed business analysis, mitigating potential risks, and identifying appropriate opportunities and solutions

• Experience with project commercials, budgeting and forecasting

• Good stakeholder management

• Defining business requirements and articulating them back to internal and client stakeholders

• Experience in translating business requirements into User Stories and backlog creation - must be hybrid as the role is expected to gather requirements and support software development cycle

• Working closely with a technical build team (onshore, nearshore and offshore) to communicate functional requirements and ensure good technical understanding so build activities can commence

Professional Skills

• Ability to work independently or as part of a team, potentially across multiple assignments

• Commitment to personal development in relevant skills

• Strong written, oral and presentation skills

• Strong workshop/ meeting facilitation skills

• Solution design, including the presentation and articulation of this to the client

• Strong background using workflow tooling - e.g. Visio

Desirable skills / Qualifications

• Exposure to project planning and tracking progress to plan, while identifying and escalating emerging risks

• Experience working within the delivery of AWS and/ or Microsoft Azure cloud technology

• Exposure to & knowledge of process engineering

Consulting
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here:

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.
Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.