Job Description

Our Mission: Happy, healthy pets, make for happy, healthy people.

We aim to strengthen the unique bond between pets and their parents through our innovative products and services, enabled by brilliant colleagues who embody our values of performance, exploration, togetherness, and sustainability.

Our Journey: In 2016 we set out to focus entirely on pet insurance with pets and families at the centre of our business strategy and in 2017 launched a new brand, EveryPaw.

To offer our customers a choice of insurance options for their pets, we also focused on finding the right partners to support our growth ambition and our first big partnerships with Sainsbury and Argos, went live in 2019.

Many talented colleagues have joined us, and we now partner with a number of fantastic brands across the retail, charity and financial services sectors. Weve developed new capabilities, new platforms and new services specifically for our partners to achieve the best customer experience. Over the last 6 years, the number of pet parents we support has grown five-fold to over half a million in 2023. Together weve built the leading Pet Partnership business in the UK and are proud to support and engage pet parents every day to ensure happy and healthy pets.

Our ambition: Were delivering long-term success and growth through empowerment and strong collaboration focusing on our two own brands; EveryPaw and Pet Protect and building great relationships with our partners to provide market?leading products, innovative new services, simplicity and a great customer experience. Our goal is to support over 1 million pet parents by the end of 2026.

Pinnacle Pet UK provides great opportunities for those who love pets, want to learn, be challenged and develop. As a team, we are focused on performance and great customer outcomes. We support each other to achieve our individual and collective goals and have a culture where everyone can be authentic, diverse and innovative and truly be the best version of themselves supporting what we do best pets.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Junior Business Analyst to join a strong team of Business Analysts in a period of significant change and growth for the organisation with a significant focus on partner onboarding and large?scale customer data migrations. In your role, you will apply best practice business analysis techniques and work with stakeholders across the business and IT to document requirements to a level that enables effective development and testing of agreed changes.

Key Responsibilities

• To support in facilitating scope and business priority?setting for change initiatives of varying size and complexity
• To select the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source
• Aid in discovering and analysing requirements as required as well as adhering to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate
• To obtain formal agreement of scope and requirements from stakeholders and establish a baseline on which delivery of a solution can commence
• To use industry standard modelling and analysis tools, giving special consideration to system impact
• To support with requests for changes to baselined requirements. To estimate the effort for changes to this baseline and identify the impact requirements of scenarios as well as the required end position
• To ensure clear communication of requirements to both technical and business audiences
• Using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• To carry out any other task associated with the role as reasonably requested.

Successful Candidates Will Have

• Junior Business Analyst experience or transferrable skillset from a similar role
• Ability to confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Good customer facing / analytical skills to extract Requirements and Process Details from a large number of users around the business, and Partners
• Good communication skills, verbal and written
• Experience/Understanding of both Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Working experience of JIRA, for Requirements capture, Test Tracking/Defect Management and Reporting
• Financial Services or Insurance experience
• Experience of working on projects of a regulatory nature
• Demonstrable experience in workshop facilitation
• Experience in working with large scale data (ideally customer) migrations
• Experience in launching new partners, including external client interaction
• Experience of working on projects of a regulatory nature

Essential

• Junior Business Analyst experience or transferrable skillset from a similar role
• Ability to confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Good customer facing / analytical skills to extract Requirements and Process Details from a large number of users around the business, and Partners
• Good communication skills, verbal and written
• Experience/Understanding of both Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Working experience of JIRA, for Requirements capture, Test Tracking/Defect Management and Reporting

Desirable

• Financial Services or Insurance experience
• Experience of working on projects of a regulatory nature
• Demonstrable experience in workshop facilitation
• Experience in working with large scale data (ideally customer) migrations
• Experience in launching new partners, including external client interaction
• Experience of working on projects of a regulatory nature

Experience of working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

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