Product Analyst
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- From £55 per day
- Full Time
- Contact: Recruitment Team
- Reference: R0071836
- Posted August, 27, 2024 10:15 AM
Job Description At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors. Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help...
Job Description
At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.
Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Product Analyst to join our interactive investor business.
About ii
interactive investor (ii) is the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £55 billion and over 400,000 customers.
ii enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.
We want to transform how people access financial services in the UK, to make advice and guidance accessible and mainstream to individuals. At present, customers face a polarising choice between full comprehensive financial advice and a fully do-it-yourself solution with very little in between. We see an opportunity in that “middle space” for propositions that make it amazingly easy for customers to sort their big financial problems, and that enable the customer to trade-up for extra help if, and when, they need it.
About the role
The Product Analyst will help deliver our advice and guidance capability.
We’ve made a lot of progress on this vision and are looking to build out the team. We’re looking for people with great business analyst skills who can look at a problem, translate that into business needs and requirements and then work with our developers and test teams to deliver a solution.
You’ll be embedded within a squad capturing business requirements, performing business and systems analysis, supporting developers to design solutions, helping to build test strategies and analyse issues.
You’ll be responsible for building and improving customer and colleague journeys, working as the link between the business and IT delivery. The role will require you to build a strong knowledge of our business, the technical ecosystem, along with taking a data lead approach to owning the outcome.
You’ll also support the wider squad more broadly, helping prioritise the roadmap and ensuring the vision and metrics are appropriate and aligned.
Key Responsibilities:
Shaping and delivery of client journey, creating features, epics, and user-stories that define what we want to achieve, incorporating client and colleague feedback, focussed on changing measurable outcomes.
Carry out detailed analysis of the business needs, requirements, impact, scope, risks and benefits, and technical dependencies
Own the analysis process including developing high quality user stories containing business requirements, data mapping, integration considerations, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements
Work with developers and architects to shape solutions and work with the test team to build out test strategies
Use objectives and KPIs to measure product performance and identify learnings
Work collaboratively with UX designers to ensure designs are aligned and create seamless, usable and accessible journeys
Provide direction daily, taking ownership to solve problems and deliver and promote the inspiring ii vision and behaviours.
Provide business and technical answers to questions required by squads in a timely manner
Play an active role in product ceremonies
Become the delivery teams SME on key processes, applications and platforms. Rapidly gain the knowledge to become the focal point for technical/business analysis.
Ensure business readiness of changes being delivered, including business process mapping and customer service training.
Use product/platform subject matter expertise to provide analysis and support for live issues and incidents, working with other support teams towards a speedy resolution.
Supporting and working alongside Product Owners to deliver the ii strategy/vision
What we're looking for:
Experience of product ownership, including shaping and delivering story-level product developments and features, balancing customer and business needs across the development lifecycle
Proven ability to analyse systems from a business/technical perspective and document processes. Able to write concise and detailed user stories with acceptance criteria. Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
Demonstrable problem solving – seeking out and finding the information needed to support the goals of the team, irrespective of prior knowledge of the problem space
Pro-active and personable – able to easily forge relationships, gets out and about. You take it on yourself to ensure the right things get done and look for answers and solutions first rather than being fed answers. Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines, and able to adapt a respond to changing needs and priorities.
Good communication and teamworking skills to support collaboration across product and technical development. Able to discuss and explain complex issues at all levels.
Basic understanding of the key financial life stages and solutions
Understanding of agile principles and practices
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to submit an application to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.