Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Brightwater is delighted to be engaged by Oak Global as their exclusive recruitment partner for their exciting technology and innovation greenfield team build out here in Dublin.

About the Company

OAK Global is a leading risk partner, embracing the global reach afforded through operating in the Lloyd’s market. Underwriting through Lloyd’s Syndicates 2843 and 1440.

Headquartered in London, OAK Global operates across key global markets, addressing complex risks with expertise across diverse industries. The company prides itself on fostering trusted partnerships, leveraging advanced analytics and underwriting expertise, and maintaining financial stability.

OAK Global is shaping the future of (re)insurance with innovation, reliability, and a forward-looking vision.

About the Position

OAK Global offers a rare opportunity to work within a true greenfield environment. Free from legacy systems, complex migrations, or transformation constraints, we are building a modern, best-in-class technology architecture designed to deliver exceptional business value and innovation from day one.

As a Business Analyst at OAK Global, reporting into the Technology & Development Lead based in London, you will play a central role in connecting business priorities with product and technology delivery. You will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to understand objectives, challenge assumptions, uncover opportunities, and turn business needs into clearly defined requirements. You’ll help shape processes, support decision-making, and ensure that what we build is aligned to strategic goals and delivers meaningful outcomes.

This is an opportunity to make a visible impact in an environment where your input will help define not just individual solutions, but how we work as a business.

Key Responsibilities

We’re looking for someone who combines strong analytical thinking with excellent communication, a delivery-focused mindset all underpinned by innovation.

• Partnering with stakeholders across the business to understand goals, pain points, opportunities, and requirements.
• Eliciting, analysing, and documenting business requirements in a clear, structured, and actionable way.
• Translating business needs into user stories, process flows, functional requirements, and supporting artefacts for delivery teams.
• Mapping current and future-state processes to identify improvements, simplify ways of working, and support scalable growth.
• Facilitating workshops, discovery sessions, and stakeholder discussions to build alignment and drive clarity.
• Acting as the link between business, product, and engineering teams to ensure shared understanding and effective delivery.
• Supporting solution design by providing business context, clarifying requirements, and helping teams stay focused on desired outcomes.
• Defining acceptance criteria and supporting testing and validation to ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Identifying risks, dependencies, impacts, and gaps, and helping teams make informed decisions.
• Contributing to backlog refinement, prioritisation, and planning activities within an agile delivery environment.
• Supporting change adoption and business readiness as new processes, systems, and capabilities are introduced.
• Championing strong business analysis practices and helping establish effective ways of working in a growing organisation.

Experience/Requirements

• Proven experience in a Business Analyst role, ideally within a digital, product, technology, or transformation environment.
• Strong skills in requirements gathering, process analysis, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience working across both business and technical teams, with the ability to translate between strategic objectives and delivery detail.
• Confidence facilitating conversations, asking the right questions, and bringing clarity to ambiguity.
• A structured approach to analysing problems, identifying opportunities, and recommending practical solutions.
• Experience working in agile environments, including user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog support, and iterative delivery.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence and build credibility across a range of stakeholders.
• A collaborative style and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• High attention to detail, balanced with an understanding of the bigger picture and wider business objectives.

Why join Oak Global?

Join a culture that values Creativity, Excellence, Determination, Authenticity, and Respect.

You’ll work closely with industry-leading talent, shape OAK Global’s technology direction, and directly enable the company’s strategic growth.

Remuneration Package

Highly competitive remuneration package and benefits

Location

Dublin 2 Location – TBC ASAP

Contact

Brightwater has been exclusively engaged to lead this search. For a confidential discussion regarding this Business Analyst position, please apply in confidence and contact Derek Smyth at [email protected]

DDI: 353 1 592 7861