Guidewire Business Systems Analyst

GFT Technologies SE • Toronto, ON

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About The Position

This role involves facilitating collaborative sessions with diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review. The analyst will apply advanced elicitation techniques, perform data mappings, reverse engineering, document as-is flows, conduct gap analysis, and elicit requirements for to-be end states. Key responsibilities include understanding business objectives, planning, eliciting, scoping, analyzing, documenting, prioritizing, managing changes, maintaining traceability, managing backlogs, stakeholder analysis, and effort estimation. The analyst will produce various requirements documents such as Problem Opportunity Analysis, Scope Modelling, Business Process Mapping, Business Context Diagraming, High-level and Detailed Requirements, Use Cases & Scenarios, Business Rules & Data Catalogue, User Stories, Story Decomposition, Story Mapping, and Requirements traceability. Additionally, the role requires building and maintaining a repository of reusable requirements documentation following enterprise standards.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a Business Systems Analyst role.
• Proven experience in Guidewire suite, preferably in the last 1-2 years on the Guidewire platform.
• Experienced in facilitating and collaborating with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements.
• Expert in performing data mappings, reverse engineering, gap analysis, documenting as-is and to-be flows and requirements.
• Understanding of business objectives, planning, eliciting, scoping, analyzing, documenting, prioritization, managing change, maintaining traceability, managing backlogs, stakeholder analysis and effort estimation.
• Expert level of requirements analysis and documentation skills – Problem Opportunity Analysis, Scope Modelling, Business Process Mapping, Business Context Diagraming, High-level and Detailed Requirements, Use Cases & Scenarios, Business Rules & Data Catalogue, User Stories, Story Decomposition, Story Mapping, Requirements traceability and non-functional requirements.
• Excellent communication, active-listening, relationship-building, self-management, proactive, team-player, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in a Financial Institution.
• Relevant undergraduate degree and/or post-graduate education in Business Analysis.

Nice To Haves

• Guidewire ACE certified.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.
• Apply advanced elicitation techniques to work with different types of stakeholder groups.
• Perform data mappings, reverse engineering, documenting as-is flows, performing gap analysis and elicit requirements to support to-be end state.
• Perform business analysis includes understanding of business objectives, planning, eliciting, scoping, analyzing, documenting, prioritization, managing changes, maintaining traceability, managing backlogs, stakeholder analysis and effort estimation.
• Produce requirements documents – Problem Opportunity Analysis, Scope Modelling, Business Process Mapping, Business Context Diagraming, High-level and Detailed Requirements, Use Cases & Scenarios, Business Rules & Data Catalogue, User Stories, Story Decomposition, Story Mapping and Requirements traceability.
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standard.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree