About the Role
Reporting to the Group Head of Strategy & Sustainability, the Strategy Analyst will play a critical role in reviewing and monitoring the implementation of the Corporate Strategic Plan by analyzing market trends, business operations, and performance data, working closely with leadership to identify opportunities for growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage, while ensuring timely, efficient, and effective dissemination of information on the Group’s performance to relevant stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct market research to understand customer needs, competitor strategies, and industry trends.
- Analyze data from various sources (internal & external) to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for growth or improvement.
- Identify and analyze complex business problems and propose solutions.
- Communicate findings and recommendations to various stakeholders, including leadership teams.
- Facilitate the development of the corporate strategic plan and annual reviews
- Facilitate tactical plans formulation & review- to ensure formulation & monitoring of the business/departmental tactical plans and gauge their effectiveness in guiding the Group to achieve its strategic objectives/ Corporate Strategic Plan – quarterly & biannually
- Ensure alignment of the tactical plans to the Group strategic goals and initiatives
- Support collection of data for annual Integrated and Sustainability reporting
- In collaboration with Strategic Business Units, list key strategic organizations and influencers with the objective of tracking their activities and explore partnership opportunities that are beneficial to the Group.
Essential Knowledge/Skills and Experience Required:
- A bachelor’s degree in business related course, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics or Actuarial Science
- Minimum of 4 years working experience in Research and analysis.
- Additional qualification in research will be an added advantage.
- Working experience in Insurance / Financial Services will be added advantage.
Desirable knowledge/skills and Experience Required:
- Professional Accounting/ analytics qualification will be added advantage
Key Competencies
- Excellent report writing, verbal, & presentation skills.
- Good analytical and communication skills
- Ability to forge working relationships and network in the industry
- A good knowledge of the financial sector, insurance services, capital markets, key relevant stakeholder organizations, for example the regulators (IRA, CMA, RBA) and major industry bodies.