Business Analyst - Insurance

Company: MISICOM, Inc
Location: Bethlehem
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

#INDIST Business Analyst is responsible for performing the business analysis function in any size effort (typically medium-large size) with minimal support and guidance. The primary responsibilities include elicitation, identification and documentation of business needs, the ability to effectively communicate with all levels in the organization in both oral and written form-while serving as a liaison across business areas and between business and technical teams.1) Create and perform ongoing updates to business cases using a variety of complementary techniques.2) Facilitate the rigorous identification and documentation of business requirements by leading business resources through a variety of activities including: interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, and workflow analysis. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details. Abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish business user requests from the underlying business needs to establish minimal viable products and services. Translate business needs into business and functional requirements in a complete, correct and clearly understood format to be shared with both business and technical stakeholders. Coordinate and perform the prioritization, transition and ongoing management of business requirements. Coordinate validation of requirements when necessary.3) Serve as a liaison across business areas and between business and technical teams.This role requires an adaptive style and the ability to quickly assimilate new information. The Business Analysis tasks are primarily delivered through an iterative delivery approach and use of agile practices, principles and lean thinking.Responsibilities:- With minimal support, plan and prioritize all tasks and initiatives assigned to ensure quality and timely deliverables.- Comply with and uphold organizational standards by using designated templates, tools or systems. Ensure quality of business analysis work by taking preventative and corrective action.- Communicate capacity risks timely and work with respective resources to mitigate when possible. Communicate status and set expectations for each delivery with stakeholder(s), PMs and manager.- Deliver all assigned tasks within the agreed upon timeline.- Using various analysis tools, identify business opportunities aligned with strategic priorities.- Define, measure, analyze business processes.- Identify and recommend process improvements within parameters of initiative scope to increase productivity or quality.- Understand overall business structure, strategy and impact on assigned work efforts.- Facilitate the identification and documentation of business requirements. Prepare and conduct elicitation activities using the appropriate Business Analyst tools and techniques (e.g. workshops, interviews, benchmarking. surveys, analysis)- Critically analyze and model the captured requirements using the appropriate analysis and modeling technique.- Organize and synthesize large business needs into detailed functional requirements.- Prioritize requirements with stakeholders based on business value, cost to deliver and time constraints.- Manage solution scope and changes to requirements.- Ensure requirements are traceable.- Assess solution options and delivery to ensure the business needs are met.- Perform solution analysis to determine the most effective option.- Determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.- Coordinate with business owner and/or stakeholders to evaluate the solution and validate the established business needs and requirements are met.- Assess the organizational readiness for the new solution and define transition requirements.- Maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders to gather information, understand stakeholder interests and business needs, and manage their expectations throughout the project life cycle.- Ensure that all stakeholders and project team members remain informed on status of requriements activities.Qualifications:- IIBA or Product Owner certification preferred. SAFe certification preferred.- Experience with Agile management tools a plus (e.g. VersionOne, Jira, Rally)- 3yrs of Insurance, Commercial/Retail Banking or Capital Markets)- 3-5yrs in the role of a business analyst or requriements analyst.- Travel as needed for project assignments- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience - provided by Dice

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