Business Analyst

IVANS; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Business Analyst to enhance product management and drive strategic initiatives. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, create user stories, and ensure successful product releases. With a focus on data-driven solutions, you will empower users and contribute to the evolution of the insurance ecosystem. This position offers the flexibility to work remotely or from the office, along with a supportive culture that values career growth and innovation. Join a team that is dedicated to making a difference in the industry and fostering a customer-centric environment.

Benefits

Health insurance plans

Dental and vision insurance

Wellness incentives

401(k) with employer match

Competitive paid vacation time

Flex Time

Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Business Analysis in a related industry.
• Strong quantitative, research, and data analytic skills.
• Ability to collaborate on programming and analytical problems.

Responsibilities

• Gather business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Create technical specifications and functional requirements.
• Develop test cases and ensure acceptance criteria are met.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Communication

Data Analytics

Technical Documentation

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Professional Work Experience in IT

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Ivans Insurance Solutions, a division of Applied Systems, is currently searching for a Business Analyst to join the Ivans Insights Product Management team. Product Management is the intersection between business, technology, and user experience. The Ivans Insights Product Management team is responsible for strategic analysis, product vision, and tactical execution of product releases for the Ivans Insights line of products.

Under the general direction of the Product Manager, the Business Analyst ensures a product’s core features and functionality meet the needs of the customers. For Ivans Insights, this means empowering users with analytics and data-driven solutions to guide their short and long-term decisions and strategic initiatives.

The Business Analyst makes sure the most valuable things to the market and to the company are aligned and included in the minimum viable delivery of the product initiative. Additionally, the Business Analyst defines, analyzes, and documents requirements for the product initiatives. This process includes writing user stories, detailing acceptance criteria, and managing requirements with the Product Owner at the project level.

What You’ll Do

• Understands, supports, and delivers on the corporate roadmap, vision, and goals
• Collaborates with Product Manager and Product Owner to establish product release vision, breaking down release-level themes / initiatives into features and user stories
• Communicates release level business needs to teams and stakeholders; sets appropriate acceptance criteria to meet business needs for minimum viable to market
• Works with clients and stakeholders to gather business needs and elicit, translate, and simply turn them into requirements.
• Plans, monitors, and analyzes the requirements throughout the roadmap and release planning, ensuring development teams can be continually fed.
• Works with peer Business Analysts & Product Managers regarding cross-team dependencies. Consistently mindful of improving portfolio interests, not just product interests.
• Creates technical specifications, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria for engineering
• Develops test cases and data that ensure the requirements and acceptance criteria are met and verified to support a successful release
• Supports the Product Owner in managing the lifecycle of the release by ensuring proper development and testing to meet the needs of the business requirements in an agile environment
• Participates in discovery calls with partners to assist Product Management with developing and maintaining a mature, feature-rich backlog
• Creates and maintains workflow diagrams to assist the design team when building partner-facing UIs
• Communicates with internal stakeholders regarding the building, maintaining, and supporting of the products

What You’ll Need to Succeed

We’re looking for someone who :

• Can work remotely or from an Ivans office

Your experience should include some or all of the following :

• 3+ years’ experience in Business Analysis in a related industry
• Strong experience working with stakeholders to establish business requirements and then translate them into technical / functional requirements
• Ability to collaborate on programming and analytical problems
• Strong quantitative, research, and Data Analytic skills
• Strong writing and communication skills
• Ability to work as a member of cross-functional teams to help design solutions
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision
• Ability to anticipate business needs and think with a business owner mindset
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or similar background gained through professional work experience
• We proudly support and encourage people with military experience, as well as military spouses, to apply

Additionally, you may have :

• InsurTech or FinTech experience
• Experience with Agency Management or Policy Administration Systems
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with the Google Cloud Platform
• Ability to comfortably and confidently present to all levels within the enterprise
• Understanding of and interest in business processes and how systems support the work efforts of product users
• Knowledge of JSON data standards

Being a part of Ivans

Benefits from Day One

• Health insurance plans, dental, and vision
• Wellness incentives
• 401(k) and / or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer match

Work-Life Balance

• Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
• Paid holidays
• Flex Time
• Volunteer time off

Empowering Career Growth and Success – We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.

Moving the Insurance Industry Forward

Digital connectivity is the lifeblood of innovation, and at Ivans, we are literally at the heart of what is driving innovation across the entire insurance ecosystem. This is just one of the things that makes Ivans such a cool place to work. Making a difference – for the industry and within our team – is what pushes us to do better each day.

Our culture is about more than developing the best technology. It’s about being innovative, investing in our team, creating a customer-centric environment, and setting the industry up for the future. A big part of that is attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent for our business and our future. That’s where you come in. You’ll get to work with amazing people on cool innovation that brings the industry forward.

Visit ivans.com to learn how you can join us.

EEO Statement

Ivans is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Ivans, we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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