Business Analyst - Contract (Manchester)

Insight Investment are seeking an agile Business Analyst to join our Technology department, with primary locations in London and Manchester. This role presents an exciting opportunity to become part of our team as we continue to expand our offices. Our ongoing growth will allow us to meet the increasing demand for innovative technical solutions that address the needs of our expanding business.

To succeed in this role, you will work with the Business and Core Data agile teams to drive data transformation, focusing on technology modernisation, data governance, and enterprise data democracy. You’ll identify business needs, communicate findings, and support the team in successful delivery.

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate across consumers, operations and technology to elicit, document and communicate business requirements.
• Translate complex problems into clear, outcome-focused user stories.
• Ensure alignment with data governance, compliance, and audit expectations.
• Facilitate impact assessments and support data lineage documentation.
• Partner with UX designers to shape user-centric solutions.
• Support training and onboarding activities related to data processes and tools.

Experience Required

• Strong understanding of modern data platforms and their application withing a corporate enterprise.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, e.g. DCAM and practical application to across data management, quality, usage, classification, and architecture.
• Data engineering concepts such as ETL/ELT pipelines and structured data management.
• Familiarity with data modernisation strategies.
• An awareness of metadata cataloguing tools and their operational usage.
• Financial services experience and knowledge of asset management data domains such as holdings, transactions, pricing and reference data is optional but a willingness to learn is essential.
• Experience working across multiple squads and coordinating with UX designers, data engineers, and governance leads.
• Strong requirement elicitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to write clear outcomes and user stories for agile delivery.
• Proficiency in documenting data lineage and business rules
• Skilled working to understand and explain complex SQL queries.

Insight Investment is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at TalentAcquisition@InsightInvestment.com

About Insight Investment

Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities.

Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: www.insightinvestment.com