Sr. Business Analyst, Reinsurance

SAPIENS•Remote, OR

8d•Remote

About The Position

The Lead Business Analyst operates under limited supervision, taking the lead as a client liaison, conducting business process analysis, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analysis to align technology solutions with business initiatives. This role develops business specifications for technical personnel and conducts analysis of business goals, objectives, and needs of the business environment. The Lead BA will make recommendations to improve business processes, utilize systems and data to resolve business issues in the most effective manner. May provide financial or operational business analysis and research to support business goals. The Lead Business Analyst is accountable for understanding the business environment and processes to derive practical business-system solutions related to specific project goals. The Lead Business Analyst must ensure that all aspects of the business need or problem are correctly reflected in the solutions developed by the solutions team. The client will rely on the judgment and expertise of the Lead Business Analyst as Functional User Reviews and User Acceptance Testing are delivered. The development and quality assurance teams will rely on the judgment and expertise of the Lead Business Analyst for all business process-related questions arising from the development work and subsequent testing. The Lead Business Analyst may assist the Project Manager in prioritizing and directing the work of other Business Analysts on the team, as well as provide mentoring and training for new or more junior Business Analysts. The Lead Business Analyst must have Reinsurance experience with a focus on policy administration.

Requirements

7+ years of business analysis experience in the Insurance industry, with a focus on Reinsurance products.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills
Ability to set, drive and achieve deliverables
Strong facilitation skills
Solid commercial, personal lines or workers comp rating and underwriting is required.
Strong knowledge of Use Case modelling
Must possess a strong knowledge of the Workers Compensation insurance industry.
Working knowledge of business modelling, requirements and analysis & design disciplines of overall iterative software development life cycle
Must demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate business concepts to both technical and end users
Must demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, MS Project, Visio)
Experience with relational databases (SQL Server and/or Oracle)

Nice To Haves

This position requires travel as needed to support business objectives, with frequency varying based on project demands (up to 20% with some months heavier than others). Therefore, the candidate must be available for travel and on-site work at the customer site. Flexibility with regards to availability for travel, based on project and customer requirements, will be necessary.

Responsibilities

Uses sound judgment and experience to solve moderately complex business process problems or to propose solutions for these problems to Sapiens management and to clients
Applies Reinsurance Policy Administration industry knowledge and expertise to guide clients in business and process decisions
Leads business process analysis, needs assessments and preliminary cost/benefits analysis to align IT solutions with business initiatives
Plans, schedules and leads collaborative requirements elaboration sessions with the client’s business users
Defines and documents clear and concise business requirements that describe business scenarios and processes in language understandable to both technical and domain stakeholders
Captures business requirements using Change Requests, Storyboarding, Use Case Modeling, etc
Tracks project scope through careful requirements management
Works with development and quality assurance teams to schedule requirement reviews.
Provides input to and review of estimates at each phase of a project
Produces output documentation and provides guidance to users as appropriate
Prepares for and facilitates Functional User Reviews as part of enhancement delivery
Works as the liaison between client stakeholders, project team members, software engineers and quality assurance personnel
Identifies gaps, project and service opportunities and future enhancements to strengthen our industry presence, meet client needs and seek revenue opportunities
Facilitates or participates in periodic sales support: demonstrations, preparation of RFP response, gap analysis studies
Perform other duties as required.