Senior Business Analyst
About The Position
Amerisure creates exceptional value for its partners, policyholders, and employees. As a property and casualty insurance company, Amerisure’s promise to our partner agencies and policyholders begins with a comprehensive line of insurance products designed to protect businesses, as well as the health and safety of every employee. With an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rating, Amerisure serves mid-sized commercial enterprises focused in construction, manufacturing and healthcare. Ranked as one of the top 100 Property & Casualty companies in the United States, we proudly manage nearly $1 Billion of Direct Written Premium and maintain $1.21 billion in surplus. Amerisure is currently recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst that can do a 3-day hybrid approach to support our Farmington Hills Headquarters. The role will require experience with Guidewire to support our Underwriting side of the house. The ideal candidate will also possess the following skill set. Summary Statement Collaborates with business to understand complex project goals and objectives as related to corporate strategy. Translates business requirements into functional specifications that enables information technology to design and implement desired solution.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related field.
- 8-10 years progressive business analysis experience supporting medium to large size projects.
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Experience with Microsoft TFS
- Ability to document Business Process accurately and aligned to the expectations of the business partner
- Demonstrated successful ability to build positive partnerships and work collaboratively with cross-functional business teams.
- Strong Insurance Industry acumen as it relates to Policy, Claims and Billing
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with ambiguity
- Ability to lead discussions, make presentations and deliver technical results to a non-technical audience.
- Comprehension of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
Nice To Haves
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification preferred.
- Experience with Guidewire
Responsibilities
- Lead, direct and coordinate requirement gathering sessions for medium to large projects.
- Define and document business and system requirements per information technology guidelines.
- Complete work requests in order to maintain service level objectives in accordance with information technology department goals and guidelines.
- Support business units by investigating operations-related opportunities and recommend solutions.
- Validate and verify requirements tracing to design and test documentation.
- Develop and maintain understanding of customer workflows and business needs to support.
- Deliver precise functional specifications to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and development staff.
- Be responsible for direct interaction with clients including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements and use cases and recommending appropriate solutions
- Creation of User stories aligned to accurately documented expected Outcomes
- Creation of User Interface specifications that align to the expectations of the business customer
Benefits
- competitive base pay
- performance-based incentive pay
- comprehensive health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with profit sharing
- generous paid time off programs
- flexible work arrangements
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
