Business Analyst

Business Analyst (Insurance)
Permanent
Dublin (Hybrid)
Salary Neg
 

Your key responsibilities 

• You will help clients align project outcomes with technology/business strategy by acting as an intermediary between business and technology stakeholders 
• Help identify problems, opportunities, and methods for improving existing business processes and workflows
• Develop business case for proposed solutions; provide detailed analysis and documentation
• Ensure the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis and mapping stage
• Create a functional design blueprint based on a broad design concept and business and user requirements, ensuring compliance with guidelines
• Prepare and analyse defect-tracking reports on existing systems
• Performs continuous integration of system features and enhancements
• Participates in identifying the costs, benefits and process impact of updating, upgrading or adding new components; documents and measures direct and indirect costs and projected benefits
• Resolve moderate to high complexity issues that occur during the functional design process
• Manage conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders
• Design functional specifications of applications to address business and user needs
• Test the effectiveness of functional design and ensures that business requirements are fully met
• Share ideas and solutions that meet the client's unique needs to achieve technical objectives

People responsibilities 

• Assist in the delivery and evaluation of training program components
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures 
• Provides guidance and support to ensure that participants using self-study methods to meet their learning goals

To qualify for the role, you must 

• Have at least 2 years within a blue-chip consulting firm, industry or government organisation (strong track record in consulting is highly desirable) 
• Have a strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in an IT related area 
• Have core experience in Insurance industries, and proven change delivery experience in enterprise-level insurance customers across Life & Pension, Health.
• Have experience operating in a fast paced, multi-vendor environment. 
• Have proven experience in business development such as client relationship management and?proposal support 
• Have proven technology (or functional) change delivery experience, Insurance Platform / Re-platform, migrations in Life & Pension, Health platforms e.g., BaNCS, ALIP, MSG, Fadata, etc or any relevant L&P or Health platforms.
• Have documenting ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ assessments for a new or existing Insurance Products and Platforms.
• Have strong Excel, PowerPoint and Visio skills 
• Have attention to detail and time management skills 

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Ideally, you’ll also have experience in one or more of the following: 

• Experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies, including the creation of User Stories and working closely with a Product Owner 
• Have ability to build and manage relationships across business and technology stakeholders 
• Have ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty 
• Experience with process design and modelling 
• Technology sourcing 
• Conducting Workshops and interviews 
• Experience with stakeholder management and working collaboratively with Development and Testing teams to deliver high quality solutions that meet client and user business needs 
• ERP/CRM implementation  
• Completing Technology/Business Architecture Review.
• Experience in Finance Transformation project / programmes (if any)
• Experience in IRFS 17 (if any)

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