Functional Analyst - COBOL M/F

Consort Group; Brussel; Hybride; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Continuous training opportunities

Health insurance

Pension plan

Résumé du poste

Consort Group is seeking a seasoned Functional Analyst to translate business requirements into robust IT solutions for Life Insurance and related processes. You will work across UI, data, and process layers, collaborating with business and IT teams to ensure delivery and stability of applications.

You will analyze production issues, validate changes, and maintain functional documentation while engaging stakeholders and ensuring quality in a hybrid Brussels-based role.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a Functional Analyst role within a complex IT environment.
• Experience delivering large-scale business applications in insurance or banking.
• Strong knowledge of contract management and administrative systems.
• Bilingual/french-dutch-english capabilities at good level are required.
• Ability to transform business requirements into robust IT solutions and ensure delivery.

Responsabilités

• Analyze high-level business requirements and translate into detailed functional specifications.
• Design end-to-end IT solutions covering UI, processes, and data implications.
• Collaborate with Business, IS Project Managers, developers, testers and stakeholders to define scope and milestones.
• Prepare functional integration test scenarios and testing approach.
• Review implementations for alignment with requirements and design specs.
• Support technical teams by clarifying requirements and validating implementations.
• Monitor application stability and coordinate corrective actions in production.
• Perform functional validation before business release and maintain documentation.

Connaissances

Functional Analysis

IT Solution Design

Functional Integration Testing

COBOL Micro Focus

SQL Server querying

Administrative Systems

Requirements Documentation

Insurance/Banking Processes

Agile & Waterfall

MS Office Suite

French (Good)

Dutch (Good)

English (Good)

Life Insurance Domain (Nice to have)

Outils

COBOL Micro Focus

.NET

SQL Development

Description du poste

• Continuous training opportunities

Every moment counts. Especially those you live to the fullest. Welcome to Consort Group.

For over 30 years, Consort Group has been helping companies leverage their data and infrastructure. It is backed by two leaders, Consortis and Consortia, and places people and social responsibility at the heart of its values.

This is your future team

Established in 2021, Consort Portugal supports the strategic offshoring choices of our clients, particularly in Europe, and brings our expertise in infrastructure services to the Portuguese market. With a team of around 45 employees, our Service Center based in Porto is developing a dynamic nearshore business, offering the French and European markets an environment of excellence and high potential.

Functional Analyst M/F

This is your mission

Are you passionate about functional analysis, solution design, and insurance business processes? Then this position is for you.

As a Functional Analyst, you will be responsible for translating business requirements into robust IT solutions and ensuring the successful delivery and stability of applications supporting Life Insurance activities.

Build Side

• Analyze high-level business requirements and transform them into detailed functional specifications.
• Design end-to-end IT solutions covering user interfaces, business processes, and database impacts.
• Collaborate with Business, IS Project Managers, developers, testers, and other stakeholders to define solution scope and milestones.
• Contribute to functional and technical solution design within a complex insurance ecosystem.
• Prepare functional integration test scenarios and define the overall testing approach.
• Review solution implementation to ensure compliance with business requirements and design specifications.
• Support technical teams by clarifying requirements and validating proposed implementations.

Run Side

• Monitor application stability and support operational continuity.
• Analyze production incidents and coordinate corrective actions with relevant teams.
• Perform functional validation of delivered solutions before business release.
• Execute SQL queries and review COBOL source code when required to investigate issues.
• Maintain functional documentation and ensure knowledge transfer to operational teams.
• Report progress, risks, and dependencies to project stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across applications and processes.

This is your background

You have at least 5 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in a complex IT environment. You are comfortable working with both business and technical stakeholders and have experience delivering large-scale business applications.

Experience in the insurance or banking sector is mandatory, with strong knowledge of contract management and administrative systems.

This is your career path

You have developed expertise in functional analysis, solution design, testing, and stakeholder management. You enjoy transforming business challenges into practical IT solutions while ensuring application quality and operational stability.

This Is Your Expertise

• Functional Analysis
• IT Solution Design
• Functional Integration Testing
• COBOL Micro Focus source code understanding
• SQL Server querying and analysis
• Administrative Systems Development
• Requirements Gathering & Documentation
• Insurance or Banking Business Processes
• Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• MS Office Suite

Languages

• French : Good (must have)
• Dutch : Good (must have)
• English : Good (must have)

Nice To Have

• Life Insurance domain knowledge
• Contract Management, Claims and Financial Processes
• Web-based Client/Server architectures
• Batch Processing
• COBOL Micro Focus development experience
• .NET
• SQL Development
• Architectural Design

This is how you work as part of a team:

• Pragmatic and solution-oriented
• Analytical and methodical
• Quality-focused
• Strong communication skills
• Proactive and flexible
• Client-oriented mindset
• Quick learner
• Able to manage priorities, deadlines, and occasional pressure
• Collaborative with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

This is our commitment

• Attentive and human onboarding
• A truly hands-on management style
• Continuous training opportunities
• Concrete commitments: inclusion, equality, solidarity
• A comprehensive HR package: health insurance, TR card, CSE, pension plan
• A culture of feedback and meaningful projects

It’s clear

The Recruitment Process

• An initial phone call with our recruitment team
• An HR interview and a job interview with a business engineer
• A test or technical interview with one of our experts
• A final meeting with your future manager or project manager

And if we're a good fit, we'll get started together.

Location:

Brussels, Belgium

Contract:

Permanent Contract / Freelance

Remote work:

Hybrid (2 days onsite per week)

Job category:

Functional Analysis / Insurance IT / Business Applications

What you will do here, you won't do anywhere else.

This moment is yours.