Business Analyst - Insurance
Position scope:
To define and manage system requirements and scope of change initiatives. To carry out specification of business requirements to a level that enables effective development and testing of agreed changes.
Key responsibilities:
- To facilitate scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of medium size and complexity.
- To contribute to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source.
- To discover and analyse requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adhering to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate.
- To obtain formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope requirements and establish a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence.
- To apply and monitor the use of required industry standard modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards, giving special consideration to system perspectives.
Required Skills and Work Experience
Essential
- Good communication skills, verbal and written
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels
- Experience in documenting requirements in a formalised method
- Experience in workshop facilitation
- Exposure to a projects environment or experience of the project lifecycle
Desirable
- Strong business analyst experience
- Experience in launching new business, including external client interaction
- Insurance experience
- Good customer facing / analytical skills to extract Requirements and Process Details from a large number of users around the business
- Experience of working on projects of a regulatory nature