Guidewire Business Analyst-Manager

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Functional Business Analyst – FS Insurance (P&C Insurance) – Manager

Business Analyst Key Responsibilities

• Network and build connections to drive new business opportunities.
• You will help clients align project outcomes with technology/business strategy by acting as an intermediary between business and technology stakeholders.
• Help identify problems, opportunities, and methods for improving existing business processes and workflows.
• Develop business case for proposed solutions; provide detailed analysis and documentation.
• Ensure the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis and mapping stage.
• Create a functional design blueprint based on a broad design concept and business and user requirements, ensuring compliance with guidelines.
• Prepare and analyse defect-tracking reports on existing systems.
• Performs continuous integration of system features and enhancements.
• Participates in identifying the costs, benefits and process impact of updating, upgrading or adding new components, documents and measures direct and indirect costs and projected benefits.
• Resolve moderate to high complexity issues that occur during the functional design process.
• Manage conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders.
• Design functional specifications of applications to address business and user needs.
• Test the effectiveness of functional design and ensures that business requirements are fully met.
• Share ideas and solutions that meet the client's unique needs to achieve technical objectives.
  
  

To qualify for the role, you must

• Have at least 8-11 years of experience within a consulting firm, industry or government organisation (strong track record in consulting is highly desirable)
• Have a strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a Business or IT related area.
• Have core experience in Insurance industries, and proven change delivery experience in enterprise-level insurance customers across P&C Insurance.
• Have experience operating in a fast paced, multi-vendor environment.
• Have proven experience in business development such as client relationship management and proposal support.
• Have proven technology (or functional) change delivery experience, Insurance Platform / Re-platform, migrations in P&C Insurance such as Guidewire, Duckcreek, Majesco or any other P&C platforms.
• Any Industry Certifications or Product/ Platform certifications is a plus.
• Have documenting ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ assessments for a new or existing Insurance Products and Platforms.
• Have strong Excel, PowerPoint and Visio skills.
• Have attention to detail and time management skills.
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have experience in one or more of the following:

• Experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies, including the creation of User Stories and working closely with a Product Owner
• Have ability to build and manage relationships across business and technology stakeholders
• Have ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Experience with process design and modelling
• Technology sourcing
• Conducting Workshops and interviews
• Experience with stakeholder management and working collaboratively with Development and Testing teams to deliver high quality solutions that meet client and user business needs
• Completing Technology/Business Architecture Review.
• Experience in Finance Transformation project / programmes (if any)
  
  

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