Business Analyst with P&C Insurance

Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst with P&C Insurance
Location: Raleigh NC and Hartford CT
Duration : Fulltime

Requirements:

• 8-10 years of P&C Insurance industry experience is a must, experience supporting insurance brokers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Strong experience in requirement gathering, analysis and creating detailed business requirements documents
• Experience in Agile projects
• SQL skills (able to write queries, perform table joins)
• Experience working as a BSA in data integration & API projects will be a plus
• Experience in Mortgage Insurance will be desirable
• The Sr. Business Systems Analyst is responsible for collaborating with the digital product managers (DPM), business system owners, and users to capture the right business requests and accurately translating them to specifications that aid design, coding and testing of complex software and/or data warehouse applications within the organization.
• The incumbent performs a liaison function between the DPM, business users, software engineers and QA analysts for implementing software solutions in order to accurately realize business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the business users and DPM to accurately capture all stakeholder requests and translate them into system specifications which typically include functional, non-functional, user interface, reports and external interface specifications.
• Work with software engineers to ensure that the engineering realization is in accordance with the business specification.
• Work with the testers to ensure that all software components are tested adequately and Participates in Quality Assurance testing as the IT workload requires.
• Provides guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve project and program objectives.
• Manages requirements risks by proactively tracking and communicating issues, and devising methods to mitigating them.
• Liaise with other project and program areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
• Analyzes, maps and communicates current state and future state business processes.
• Supports business units in the resolution of in-depth user questions and issues.
• Maintains a working knowledge of new technology and business analysis standards & practices.
• Collaborates with IT management to define and develop documentation & business analysis artifact standards, guidelines, processes, and templates.

Job Requirements:

• Insurance industry experience is a must, experience supporting insurance brokers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience creating detailed business requirements documents
• SQL skills (able to write queries, perform table joins)
• Advanced knowledge of Insurance product business domain assigned software business systems and/or data warehouse applications.
• In depth knowledge of business analysis processes, techniques, and work products.
• Understanding of experience with user experience design for web applications.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of computer software development, computer terminology, and software applications.
• Experience in Agile software development processes
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate and convey information to business owners and software engineers and testers.
• Strong customer service skills to provide end user/business owner systems support on high level issues.