About Lombard International Group


Lombard International Group (‘the Group’) is the leading European provider of cross-border wealth, estate and succession planning solutions, based on Luxembourg unit-linked life insurance. Our 30+ years’ experience combined with our award-winning solutions and services are highly sought after and valued by our clients and their advisers. What truly matters to them is being able to protect, preserve, and pass on their wealth for future generations.


With our presence in 7 countries, the Group has an internationally diversified footprint serving over 15 markets across Europe. Our dynamic international team of 450+ experienced wealth structuring specialists, subject-matter and technical experts consists of 50 different nationalities, speaking over 30 languages.


We are a proud multicultural, diverse, and inclusive Group, driven by a values-based culture of performance, ambition and curiosity, where innovation is not just supported but actively encouraged. We invest in talented teams who develop their expertise, curated through support and training, and fostered through a people centred culture. Our people truly are our greatest asset!


Lombard International Group operates through two divisions:


Insurance carrier: Lombard International Assurance S.A.
Headquartered in Luxembourg, Lombard International Assurance S.A. is an insurance carrier specialising in manufacturing unit-linked life insurance solutions. These solutions are distributed by various regulated intermediaries, including private banks, family offices, asset managers, independent wealth and financial advisers, wealth and insurance brokers, professional advisory firms and other advisers active in the private wealth sector.


Distribution Companies
The Group has a number of wholly owned investment and insurance distribution businesses who market and advise on unit-linked life assurance products manufactured by Lombard International Assurance S.A.


For further information about Lombard International Group, please visit: www.lombardinternational.com


Your role – Are you ready for a challenge?


Within the Transformation Office, Business Analysis team, we are looking to fill in the position of the Business Analyst with the mission of helping guide our organization to the future.


Transformation Office is responsible for integrating all transformation initiatives throughout our organisation providing the strategic alignment and prioritization of all change initiatives.
Transformation office makes sure project management and business analysis methodologies are applied across the organization and is the owner of the overall change management process, being the critical link between executive vision and they daily activities of Lombard International Assurance.


The ideal candidate will be a detailed planner, expert communicator and with expert analysis skills. This person should also be fully committed to the discovery and development of new and innovative solutions in an ever-changing financial and digital landscape.


Your responsibilities will be as follows:

• Provide the link between the customer, development team and any third-party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle
• Support projects and changes within the organization, analysing and challenging current processes with an eye on improvement and automation to facilitate both stability and growth
• Perform detailed analysis of the business processes. Find areas of waste, duplication, or frequent errors (processes that are not as effective as desired). Contribute to identify proper change, document it, get stakeholders support and monitor implementation
• Estimate workload needed to perform a business analysis of any change
• Collect, understand and transmit the business requirements of assigned changes and translate these into functional specifications
• Analyse and document business processes
• Estimate workload needed to perform sanity checks of a requirement / change specified by a business analysis
• Create and update all business analysis
• Perform sanity checks and conduct user acceptance tests if needed
• Participate to the review process of analysis produced by peers
• Participate to the review of our processes, suggest improvements and contribute to build the Process management framework
• Ensure continuous improvements and micro adjustments to the changes processes to maintain efficient operations
Report on a regular basis to the line manager: status, risks and issues of outstanding analysis and tests

Your profile – Have you got what it takes to become our Business Analyst?

• Master degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or similar field
• At least 10 years’ experience as Business Analyst, preferably in life insurance sector but at least experience in Finance (Wealth Management, Asset Management or Private banking…)
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Excellent analytical, technical and conceptual thinking skills, able to deliver pragmatic solutions
• Excellent planning, extremely organized with strong time-management skills
• Ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis and build business case
• Excellent documentation skills, written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills
• Strong capacity to question and optimize existing processes
• Comfortable working with both business and technical departments
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Ability to integrate a face-paced international environment with resistance to stress
• Continued ambition to further develop and learn, fostering an interest in innovative technologies
• Good knowledge of project management tool JIRA
Fluency in English (excellent written and oral communication).

Additional Assets

• Certification, not mandatory but considered as an asset:
  • Methodology: SAFe. Scrum, Prince 2
  • Analysis: IREB, IQBBA, IIBA
• Technical skills, not mandatory but considered as an asset:
  • Development: SQL (Microsoft SQL, Oracle), Programming language (JAVA, Java Script, ...), Kafka, Postman
  Microsoft Office 365
  

We offer you


Sitting at the crossroads of private banking, asset management and insurance, we operate in a well-established and fast-growing segment of the financial services industry. We offer a thriving and entrepreneurial work environment, with the opportunity to work across multiple geographies, learn valuable new skills, develop great expertise, and establish long-lasting relationships. It is an exciting opportunity to build a network of contacts across the organisation in a collaborative and diverse workplace. At Lombard International Group we have a diverse team of over 50 nationalities. We are always looking for exceptional talent to join our team. Because our people are our greatest assets, you will enjoy reward and recognition packages. We also offer you the possibility to shape your professional career in line with your own goals and the opportunity to work with the top talent in the industry. We are committed to extending equal employment opportunities to all individuals.


Be a part of our community!


Lombard International Groups an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, colour, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.


Given the sensitive nature of our business, industry sector and the role as described, the selected candidate is required to provide a criminal record (Bulletin n°3 for Luxembourgish residents). This excerpt will be kept by Lombard International Assurance S.A. in compliance with article 8-5 (2) of the law of 23 July 2016 and for no longer than one month from the conclusion of the employment contract; otherwise it will be destroyed without any undue delay should the candidate not be hired.


Should you be interested in pursuing this opportunity, please send your application in full confidence to Lombard International Assurance S.A, https://www.lombardinternational.com/en-US/Careers/Job-Board


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