Business Analyst - Onsite - Ma

A Business Analyst plays a crucial role in aligning the designed solution with the needs by eliciting, managing, communicating, and validating/testing requirements.

The Business Analyst is responsible for creating and executing specific deliverables and activities as part of a cross-functional team assigned to The internal business-sponsored IT projects.

Business Analysts are key contributors to the overall success of each project and ongoing success

• Applies specific functional and/or business expertise to perform assigned tasks and develop specific project deliverables.
• Completes project activities on time and within budget, and proactively identifies and communicates issues that may jeopardize milestones or project budget to Management and the Project Manager.
• Elicits and documents business requirements from stakeholders such as Functional Analysts (FAs) to resolve a business issue; translate these requirements into detail level requirements.
• Consistently performs analysis and translates business needs to create high-quality Business Requirements and Functional Specifications documentation within specified time frames to solve most complex problems (multiple interfaces with other systems across multiple business units) considering all impacted components from an end-to end perspective.
• Documents requirements e.g. user stories that are well formed, traceable, and testable with defined acceptance criteria.
• Conducts impact analysis of technology changes on business processes and existing technology.
• Conducts interviews, fact-finding, and independent research to design creative, progressive IT solutions for business problems
• Essential Functions
• Validates issue owner, details of the issue, assesses severity, and completes issue details with stakeholder requirements.
• Attends requirements workshops to communicate/discuss documented business requirements, document them if needed, and decompose those requirements into User Stories in JIRA.
• Adheres to project management methodology by utilizing internal procedures and tools and identifying areas for methodology improvement.

Qualifications:

• Prior experience with insurance underwriting, claims, compliance and/or business process improvements is desirable.
• Prior Agile experience or working with Agile transition initiative is desirable
• Ability to recognize complex problems vs. objectives and apply creativity to analyze situations, develop solutions and procedures.
• Ability to successfully work in cross-functional team environment
• The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies
• Must possess sound knowledge of structured IT application development lifecycles,
• Information Technology aptitude
• Experience with Jira
• Advanced Excel
• Ability to effectively collaborate with agents, employees, management and vendors
• Analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Technical knowledge of insurance policy coverages, regulations and legal theories.

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