Senior Business Data Analyst

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions. Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role. The Role: Senior Business Data Analysts within the Data Product function are responsible for understanding business requirements and identifying the data requirements needed to deliver a business outcome, shaping and enabling the use of high-quality data products and solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes and align to the Asset Management target data strategy. They work closely with business stakeholders, data product owners, technology delivery teams and other data governance partners to understand demand, define data scope, assess value, and translate business needs into scalable, reusable and governed data capabilities. The role combines strong analytical capability with a product mindset: understanding user needs, challenging requirements, identifying opportunities to simplify or standardise, and helping to shape the data product roadmap. Senior Analysts play a key role in ensuring that data products are designed with clear purpose, quality expectations, ownership, usability and long-term strategic fit. They use a range of analysis, discovery and stakeholder engagement techniques to support requirement prioritisation, design and delivery. They also guide and mentor less experienced analysts, helping the wider team adopt consistent approaches to data product discovery, design and documentation. Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities: Manager/Expert Work with business stakeholders, Data Product Owners, delivery teams and change team to understand business demand, lead or support discovery activity, and assess how needs should be met through existing, enhanced or new data products and solutions. Contribute to the design of data products and wider solutions aligned to the Asset Management target data strategy and the long-term data platform direction, including the shift to a governed, Snowflake-centric technology architecture with self-service semantic layers and data marketplace capabilities. Shape demand by challenging requirements, identifying common needs across stakeholder groups, and ensure solutions are designed for reuse, scalability and strategic fit, championing adoption to reduce bespoke, point-to-point solutions and accelerate time-to-value. Help define the purpose, scope and intended outcomes of data products, ensuring each has a clear business problem, defined users and measurable value. Develop well-structured product artefacts, including problem statements, data requirements, acceptance criteria, lineage and quality expectations, and operating model impacts. Support the creation and refinement of the data product roadmap, assessing business value, urgency, delivery complexity, governance and regulatory considerations. Assess data risks, quality gaps, ownership issues and business impacts across the full data lifecycle from definition and sourcing through to transformation, consumption and reporting ensuring these are factored into product design and prioritisation. Build and maintain strong working relationships across business functions, Investment Data Services, technology delivery teams and governance stakeholders, ensuring demand is well understood, trade-offs are transparent, and product decisions are grounded in business value. Work closely with technology delivery teams across requirements analysis, data modelling, integration, engineering, testing and release. This includes producing and validating source-to-target data mappings and resolving data discrepancies found during build and testing. Guide and mentor junior analysts and support the development of reusable standards, templates, procedures and guidance that improve consistency in data product discovery, design, delivery and documentation. Adopt an automation and efficiency mindset, using AI-assisted tools and techniques to accelerate data discovery, requirements documentation and testing, freeing up time for higher-value analysis and stakeholder engagement. Contribute to and help maintain well-structured product backlogs, working within Scrum or Kanban delivery models, and support the definition of OKRs and other measurable goals to track data product progress and maturity. Key Skills, Competencies & Experience: Skills and Competencies Strong data analysis and data exploration skills, with the ability to identify patterns, investigate issues and translate findings into clear business and product implications. Strong stakeholder engagement skills facilitating discovery conversations, managing competing perspectives, and explaining complex data concepts and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to understand business outcomes, challenge requirements and shape demand knowing when needs should be consolidated, prioritised, deferred, redirected to existing capabilities or built as new features. Good understanding of data product principles, including product purpose, user needs, ownership, reusability, quality, discoverability, scalability and lifecycle management. Ability to assess data quality and operating model implications, with a good understanding of data governance principles including ownership, stewardship, lineage, metadata and controlled use of data. Familiarity with modern cloud-native data platforms and data tooling (e.g. Snowflake, Purview), and an understanding of self-service semantic layers and data marketplace concepts as enablers of scalable data products. Strong understanding of core Investment Data concepts, such as instruments, positions, transactions, performance, benchmarks, portfolios and related reference data. Broader understanding of the Asset Management business asset classes (e.g. equities, fixed income, multi-asset, private markets), fund structures, client types and the regulatory drivers that shape data requirements. Comfortable using AI-assisted tools and automation to accelerate discovery, documentation and testing activities, continuously seeking ways to improve analytical efficiency. Proactive and self-starting, able to manage multiple deliverables and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced environment, with a strong desire to deliver practical outcomes that improve data capability. Comfortable defining and working with product KPIs, adoption metrics and value realisation measures to track and communicate data product performance. Experience: Experience in business analysis, data analysis or product analysis roles within an asset management or wider financial services business, with an understanding of how investment products, client servicing and regulatory obligations shape data requirements and priorities. Experience supporting or shaping data products, datasets, reporting capabilities or data platform solutions. Experience working with, or exposure to, modern cloud data platforms and transformation tooling (e.g. Snowflake, Purview), self-service analytics or data marketplace initiatives. Experience engaging with stakeholders to understand demand, facilitate discovery workshops and define business outcomes. Experience working with technology delivery teams (data modellers, engineers, testers, architects), including producing source-to-target mapping documentation and working hands-on through ingestion design, build and validation. Experience identifying data risks, quality issues, ownership gaps or operating model impacts. Experience delivering change using Agile methodologies including product backlogs, Scrum or Kanban, and OKRs within large delivery programmes or complex change environments. Work Level: Manager/Expert Location: London What we offer: We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life , and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include : A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions). Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work. Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments. Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture. Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind. To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience. M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. 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