Business Analyst
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Build strong productive relationships with the business to create functional requirements that are based on true business need.
- Produce high quality business analyst deliverables such as user stories, acceptance criteria & accurate revisions to existing functional specifications.
- Producing these high quality outputs while working at pace to facilitate a rapid turnaround of value added incremental change.
- Attention to detail on the development and testing of the change are critical
- Identify dependencies between concurrent changes and mitigate the knock on effect of these dependencies to minimise unintended issues.
- Demonstrate problem solving skills to identify the root cause of issues and the most appropriate solution to meet the business need.
- Become a trusted expert on system design, processes and behaviour.
- Become and SME on technical configuration of the Sapiens IDIT (Merlin) system
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Knowledge of programming and statistical tools such as Emblem & SAS
- Good understanding of Commercial Lines and Personal Lines insurance through various distribution channels
- Experience working with third party data suppliers
- Seeking or attained relevant professional qualifications
- Of graduate calibre with at least 3-4 years' experience and proven success in a similar role
- Good general knowledge of programming and statistical tools such as Excel, SQL
- High level of numeric competence and excellent data gathering and manipulation skills
- Practical application of in-depth statistical skills within a business environment
- Strong analytical pragmatic reasoning skills
- An aptitude for innovative problem solving
- Excellent spread sheet skills and data manipulation
- Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate the complex
- Business/Customer Focussed
- Deadline oriented
- Hardworking, curious, passionate, enthusiastic and a self-starter
- Comfortable influencing and communicating across a matrix structure
- Experience of working with Underwriters
- Excellent communication skills with confidence to build strong relationships at all levels of the business, with stakeholders in a variety of locations and time zones
- Analytical approach to work, able to ask the right questions to ensure requirements, rationale and acceptance criteria are well understood
- Willingness to get hands on with technology and a desire to learn
- Able to demonstrate evidence of using analytical skills and data to support decision making
- Can demonstrate ability to prioritise and organise workload in order to meet tight deadlines
- Understands the importance of accuracy and clear documentation of software tests and processes
- Knowledge of commercial and personal lines insurance products
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Nice to have
- Knowledge of SQL
- Have proven experience of undertaking formal business testing
- Experience of operating within an 'agile' development environment
- Have proven experience of eliciting, documenting and delivering high quality business analysis deliverables.
- Experience of using JIRA
- Knowledge of Sapiens IDIT (Merlin) or another Insurance policy administration system
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We are looking for an individual who is highly analytical, driven and detail orientated with a passion for excellent execution. You will need to be articulate and exhibit a track record of good decision making skills, working under pressure and to tight deadlines, with an ability to quickly understand problems and create and implement solutions.
Reference no: 101594