Senior Strategic Business Analyst

Aon is hiring a Senior Strategic Business Analyst to support its Human Capital Portfolio Lead and Programme Managers. The role translates strategic priorities into decision-ready investment proposals, leads business cases and requirements analysis, and establishes measures to realise portfolio value.

Responsibilities:

• Lead business stakeholders through VRO approval process, providing structure, challenge and guidance from the initial idea through investment decision
• Assess the strategic problem or opportunity, desired outcomes, scope, dependencies and delivery considerations
• Co-ordinate and review input from business, Finance, IT delivery and subject-matter experts to ensure complete, considered and timely movement through the process
• Review submissions for completeness, quality, strategic alignment, clear value realisation, operational and governance readiness
• Resolve ambiguity and reconcile competing stakeholder perspectives
• Lead the development of compelling business cases and CBAs
• Evaluate strategic alignment, options, costs, benefits, risks, assumptions and delivery implications
• Construct evidence-based recommendations and explain the implications of proceeding, changing scope, delaying or taking no action
• Challenge assumptions and validate supporting evidence
• Prepare decision papers and presentations for senior governance forums
• Facilitate discovery sessions to elicit business outcomes and high-level requirements
• Translate strategic needs into clear, prioritised and testable requirements without prescribing a technology solution
• Map requirements to Human Capital capabilities, operating-model components and portfolio priorities
• Maintain traceability between strategic objectives, capabilities, requirements, investment decisions and intended benefits
• Identify overlaps, gaps, dependencies and opportunities for reuse across the portfolio
• Facilitate hand off to product teams during mobilisation
• Define measurable outcomes, benefit hypotheses, baselines, targets and success measures
• Agree benefit ownership and measurement approaches with business stakeholders
• Support Programme Managers in embedding value measures within programme plans and governance
• Review whether delivered outcomes remain aligned to the approved business case
• Provide insight into portfolio performance, risks and opportunities to improve value
• Act as a trusted adviser to the Portfolio Lead, Programme Managers and senior business stakeholders
• Facilitate complex discussions and build agreement where priorities differ
• Connect related initiatives and highlight cross-portfolio impacts and dependencies
• Coach stakeholders and junior analysts in business-case, requirements and value-realisation practices
• Improve VRO templates, standards and guidance using lessons learned

Requirements:

• Strong experience in business strategy, portfolio analysis, business analysis or organisational transformation
• Demonstrated experience leading complex business cases, CBAs or investment proposals
• Strong understanding of capability-based planning, requirements definition and benefits realisation
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and facilitating decisions across multiple business areas
• Ability to interpret financial and non-financial evidence and convert it into concise recommendations
• Experience working with portfolio, programme or transformation governance
• Knowledge of Human Capital or People functions is desirable