Change Business Analyst, Private Markets

Overview

The Business change team is responsible for delivering LGIM's change portfolio, and the Project Manager/ Business Analysis team is responsible for helping to navigate business change through the change framework, influencing and helping to direct solutions and design through the lifecycle of the projects.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both managing projects and diving deep into business processes to drive improvements as demanded by needs of a program. This role requires an individual with previous in-depth experience working within the Asset Management industry (preferably within Private Markets), and capable of driving large change programs from feasibility analysis to inception and through to delivery. We are looking for candidates who can see the bigger picture and can act as an expert counsel to align Business Change ideas to Operating Model, Architecture and Strategic themes, as well as coaching, mentoring and guiding other analysts. Someone who is at home operating in a lean, agile environment and is comfortable formulating and consulting on Epics across identified value streams.

The candidate will be self-starting and inquisitive, comfortable working in complex delivery environments, with multiple stakeholders. Excellent communications skills are a pre-requisite.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage the 'big picture' associated with any change and proactively work with stakeholders to optimise, enable and drive workstream delivery.
• Ability to act as an expert counsel and consultant and being able to bring structure to vision and ideas and able to conduct feasibility analysis to give shape to business cases.
• Work with Architecture teams to identify innovative, effective and scalable approaches to tackle changes.
• Work with technology and outsourced providers to help manage and deliver changes in the most optimised manner.
• Elicit business requirements and capture/document the as-is and to-be operating models, incorporating process, organisation, technology, and information themes, using a variety of business analysis techniques.
• Document requirements in Jira and manage and progress backlog items working with wider team.
• Organise, lead & manage workshops and, where appropriate, act in a Product Owner capacity to drive decision making.
• Derive and define high level business requirements, map out appropriate Epics and User Stories to support delivery. Look for re-use opportunities and identify appropriate value streams.
• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
• Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation.
• Monitor project progress and involve various parties as necessary to ensure successful completion.
• Manage project risks, dependencies and issues and implement mitigation strategies.
• Communicate project status to stakeholders and senior management.
• Liaise with technical delivery teams throughout the change lifecycle; manage the relationships.
• Work with other workstreams within the programme to drive problem resolutions and fact finding for requirement gathering.
• Support technology teams in development phase and advice with test planning, documentation and provide advise/support in creation of test scripts where appropriate.
• Work with and deliver value through change to key stakeholders like head of operations, head of product, head of legal, programme sponsors and wider senior management community.
• Promote the use of agile toolsets like JIRA & Kanban boards to manage backlogs, whilst ensuring full traceability of requirements through to benefits.
• Ensure that all change is compliant with the Asset Management Business Change Management Framework
• Identify best practice opportunities for the Analysis team and contribute to realising these opportunities.
• Be a team player who can work collaboratively with colleagues of all levels & geographies in achieving value-added results

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management and business analysis within Asset Management industry.
• Extensive experience working on Private Markets Transformation programmes is highly desirable.
• Extensive experience designing strategic operating models within Real Estate Equity, Product and Private Credit business lines is highly desirable.
• Extensive experience working on Front Office or Regulatory programmes in an Asset Management organisation is desirable.
• Extensive experience performing business analysis and creating structured business cases.
• Experience managing and delivering large scale projects.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining collaboration cross-geographies.
• Extremely organised with strong time-management skills.
• Evidence of a structured approach to analysis and documentation, using recognised tools and techniques.
• Experience of requirements elicitation and design and target operating model definition.
• Experience of Agile/iterative delivery and contribution to/creation of business cases
• Sound understanding of contemporary technology infrastructure, e.g. cloud, service-based architecture, and data management.
• Degree level education preferred.
• Business analysis qualification preferred.
• Project Management Professional or similar certification is preferred.

Salary Range

$130,000 - $170,000

The starting salary offer will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to the applicant's education, job-related experience, skills, and abilities, geographic location, and market factors. This position is also eligible to participate in the company's annual discretionary bonus plan. Full time employees may be eligible for health insurance with an optional HSA, short term disability, long term disability, dental insurance, vision care, life insurance, Healthcare, Dependent and Limited Care Flexible Spending Accounts, 401K, vacation, sick time, an employee assistance program, and commuter and transit programs. Additional voluntary programs include: supplemental health benefits including accidental injury, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance and pet insurance.

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