Senior Analyst, Digitalization & Strategic Initiatives

We Are Waiting for You

Hi there!

I am Alba Marin the recruiter for this position. Nice to meet you!

First off, THANK YOU for considering us. We understand that finding the right opportunity can be tough, but I’ll try to make it easier.

Who are we?

Group Audit

Zurich Group Audit is a diverse international team of over 275 colleagues from 33 different nationalities, working globally as one function with a common purpose: to keep Zurich safe. Together, we bring our skills, capabilities, and unique strengths to provide real insights to our stakeholders and drive positive change.

Our ambition is to be the best we can be for our company, our people, and our communities. We are committed to continuous learning and improvement, striving to excel in what we do and how we do it. To support this, we are transforming into a fully digital, data-driven and AI-enabled function, maximising our human capabilities with technological innovation.

Audit Operations

The Audit Operations team sits at the heart of the internal audit function. We are on our own continuous learning and improvement journey; Supporting the global audit team to get better and better at delivering our purpose and strategy, while growing at the same time. The Operations team’s role is to set up and continuously improve what we as an audit function do, how we work, develop and grow together. Driving meaningful change.

The Operations Digitalization and Strategic Initiatives team plays a key role in supporting Group Audit’s transformation to become fully digital, data-driven and AI-enabled. We’re developing and maintaining leading-edge technology for use across the function, redesigning our processes to harness the full potential of data, GenAI and embedding a completely new way of working across Group Audit.

This is not about project management; it’s about driving and embedding transformational change across the Group Audit function and supporting our GA colleagues along the journey.

What can you expect?

And you might be thinking: This is great, what will my day-to-day be like, at Zurich? I’m glad you asked.

As Senior Analyst, Digitalization & Strategic Initiatives, you will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to our exciting transformation journey by supporting end‑to‑end change management for Group Audit’s strategic initiatives. From problem framing and design through to implementation, training and support embedding the changes.
• Partner with initiative leads to scope changes, shape design decisions and define simple, pragmatic implementation approaches.
• Coordinate and collaborate with stakeholders. This includes leaders, the GA community and our external stakeholders. You will gather inputs, feedback and build consensus on key change decisions.
• Create clear and engaging communications content. You’ll create and deliver polished and well-crafted messages in briefings and training, tailored for a range of different audiences.
• Track adoption and outcome. Agree practical measures, gather feedback and lessons learned, summarise insights and recommend continuous improvement adjustments.
• Manage pace and priorities. You’ll be organising activities across multiple streams, surface risks/issues early and facilitate decisions to closure.

What makes you a great fit?

We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic change management professional with hands-on experience of delivering strategic change initiatives and the following experience and qualities:

• Strategic focus: You can see the big picture and prioritize initiative activities that delivers the greatest strategic impact.

• Relevant change management experience: You’ve defining and delivering previous change activities, including scoping design decisions, delivery and implementation activities.
• Stakeholder engagement experience: You have collaborated with a range of stakeholders to build trust and gather input to help shape change management activities.
• Storytelling and communication expertise: You have experience of building strong slide narratives and experience of delivering briefings and training to a range of stakeholder groups.
• Benefits and outcomes focused: You have experience of defining adoption/success measures and using feedback and data to adjust plans.
• A data mindset: You understand what good data structures look like, the guardrails and governance needed for safe use and how data can enable insights and future AI use cases.
• Proactive delivery: You take ownership for delivery activities, can manage competing priorities effectively, anticipate issues and drive progress with speed and quality in a dynamic environment.
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Prior experience of using GenAI

Experience in the following is preferred but not essential:

• Agile knowledge & experience, including applying agile principles and iterative/incremental delivery to unlock value quickly and effectively.
• Prior experience of Internal Audit or Risk Management.

And… What makes us special?

As well as a competitive salary and a yearly bonus, we offer:

• To support your work-life balance, we have adopted a flexible working model.

• Over 300 euros to set up your home office and additional monthly home office allowance.
• Wide range of internal and external trainings, including English, German and Spanish classes depending on the need.
• Ticket restaurant and Health Insurance with the flexibility to exchange it for other benefits.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Collective Life retirement Plan
• 2000 referral bonus if you bring other talented people like you to the company.
• Special banking and insurance conditions plus Exclusive Employees discounts 
• Functional diversity benefits 
• Different social clubs such as hiking, investment, beach volley and many more
• Stock options and mortgage benefits.  

Where are we located?

Via Augusta, Barcelona.

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How to apply

Can you see yourself in this role? Don’t wait any longer! Apply by sending your CV in English.

If not, no worries! We’ll meet again in the future. Feel free to share my contact details with anyone you think would be a great fit.

At Zurich, we are an equal opportunity employer. We attract and retain the best-qualified individuals available, regardless of race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.