Data Business Analyst

Policy Expert – Data Business Analyst 

🚀Are you ready to transform the insurance industry?

Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.

Having achieved rapid growth since being founded in 2011, we’ve won over 1.5 million customers in Home, Motor and Pet insurance and have been ranked the UK’s No.1-rated home insurer by Review Centre since 2013. 🏆

Hear from our team about what it's like working at Policy Expert ✨

What you’ll be doing

As a Data Business Analyst, you will take ownership of a data initiative from discovery through to implementation and beyond, working closely with the business, Data Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. You will digest and communicate the business value of the data being delivered, ensuring they enhance our business performance and operations.   

The role will include:   

• Running discovery workshops to understand the requirements and potential benefits of proposed data initiatives.   

• Acting as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication of progress.   

• Ensuring delivery is in line with the wider product and business strategies.   

• Delving into the data and related processes to understand opportunities for delivering value.   

• Collaborating with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists to find the right data solution that aligns with the business priorities and strategic aims.   

• Prioritising and managing sprint backlogs through collaboration with the team, ensuring that user stories and tasks are well-defined, estimated, and ready for development.   

Examples of projects / work this role would be involved in:    

• Bringing data from other systems into our data warehouse, providing requirements on data that needs to be stored for reporting purposes, and mapping it correctly into the layers of the data warehouse.    

• Investigating issues with data quality by interrogating and analysing the data.    

• Gathering requirements for tooling for Data Analysts, such as data transformation tooling, facilitate the implementation and provide training and examples of best practice.    
• Requirements for new initiatives such as the implementation and data modelling for a new dimensionally modelled multi-layered data warehouse 

Who are you: 

• Experience in projects concerned with implementing data payload ingestion, pipelines and transformations, from discovery to implementation and support.   

• An interest in data and how it can be leveraged to deliver business value.   

• Data skills and knowledge, including strong SQL skills, experience of working with complex data sets, and knowledge of data mapping and modelling.  

• Experience checking data quality and creating test plans for data sets.  

• A detail-oriented mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality work.  

• An open and transparent communicator who enjoys working in a team while also able to be self-motivated to get work done.  

• You will be able to articulate the commercial value of an idea to communicate the value of the work we do.  
• Knowledge of the UK Personal Lines Insurance industry would be helpful, but what is more important are the skills to analyse, question, collaborate and communicate  

Benefits:

📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode.

💸 We match your pension contributions up to 7%

🏥 Private medical & Dental cover

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)

😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity 

🚉 Travel season ticket loan

🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge

🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme

🚪 Prayer room in Office

What We Stand for and Next Steps

 “We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment” 

At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support.

We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements.

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