WINS Business Analyst

Stamford/Hartford, USA

Insurance Americas Application Solution Center is part of the AXA XL Global Technology responsible for Policy Administration, ERM, HR, Marketing and Communication, Workplace, Legal, Compliance Applications portfolio management. The team builds the overall strategy, performs SDLC, maintenance, support, and performance improvements for all applications.

What you’ll be doing

Senior Business Analyst bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. The Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting multiple enterprise applications within the Americas Application Solution Center and other Solution Delivery Centers. Core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting business, functional, non-functional, and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests. Senir Analysts will also provide the Senior level of support for projects that impact the supported applications.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Collect, challenge, facilitate and document business requirements as well as define business specifications and requirements.
• Validate the overall IT solution to ensure alignment of business requirements, review requirements and/or specifications with the development and test teams to ensure understanding.
• Analyze large volume of data and provide analysis on the impact of the change on the source, Finance architecture, and Dependent systems
• Engage closely with business teams in delivering the project, small change, and BAU releases
• Perform Root Cause Analysis in support of Problem Management and support operational tasks.
• Perform deliverable reviews and manage measurements of deliverable quality.
• Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solutions fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages.
• Help identify how requirements can help make the process more efficient.

The Senior Business Analyst reports to the Analyst Lead.

What you will BRING

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a Master’s degree in Business Administration
• Analysis experience in Insurance/Reinsurance/Finance applications
• Proficiency in Prebind and Post bind Policy administration systems.
• Knowledge in Insurance Regulatory reporting and WINS system would be plus
• The ability to extract data from SQL and Regulatory Reporting knowledge
• Clear and concise style of verbal and written communications
• The collective player with the ability to engage with multiple teams in a large organization
• Technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis.
• Ability to work with large volume data for data Analysis and Reporting
• Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile principles.
  • Experience/Expertise working with or within (scaled) agile product environments
  • Knowledge and practical work experiences with major agile frameworks (SCRUM / Kanban / SAFe)
• Must have familiarity with Analyst methodologies—use Cases; Business Rule Development; User Interface Specs; Functional Specs.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication skills (written and verbal), and be team oriented.
• Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative, and user oriented.
• Able to determine and expertly communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability and maintainability.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and create accurate project estimates. Accurately quantifies project specific risks through the project lifecycle.
• The ability to present information in an influencing manner to leadership and all business stakeholders.
• Proven planning and organization skills, creating own work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.

Who WE are

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ , ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

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