Business Analyst

• Business Analysts bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. The Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting an application or multiple applications within a Delivery Team (or at times across teams ). Her/his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests.
• What will your essential responsibilities include?
• Determine & document business requirements by generating User Stories in Agile Scrum.
• Validate the overall IT solution to ensure alignment to business requirements, review requirements and/or specifications with the development and test teams to ensure understanding.
• Using process, system and business knowledge / experience assess the feasibility & benefits of proposed projects.
• Shape user requirements by challenging the business.
• Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solution fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages.
• Help identify how requirements can help make the process more efficient.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing and provide support for issues/changes in production.   

We re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Knowledge of Wild Commercial would be an advantage.
• Ability to extract and document business requirements by writing User Stories, to support the delivery of a technical solution.
• Must have familiarity with various business analyst techniques e.g., User interviewing / Workshop facilitation / Business Process Modelling / Use Case, As-Is and To-Be Business Process Analysis / Writing Epics & User Stories.
• Proven experience of business analysis within the insurance market. Familiarity with full policy lifecycle, especially Rate/Quote/Bind systems experience.
• Significant experience of supporting all phases of the software development life cycle, including UAT support & oversight.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, create accurate estimates and identify project risks through the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrate stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to build trusting relationships with the business.
• UX design experience & ability to use SQL an advantage.
• Business facing and able to present information in an influencing manner to leadership and business stakeholders.
• A team-oriented individual with strong communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills are essential.
• Proven planning and organization skills, with an ability to work independently, planning their analysis work, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Ability to work with data and complex systems.
• Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile Scrum.
• Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative and user oriented.
• Able to determine and communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability and maintainability.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.