Guidewire Business Systems Analyst - Contract

GFT Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Toronto is looking for an experienced Guidewire Business Systems Analyst. The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years of experience in business analysis, strong expertise in the Guidewire suite, and excellent documentation skills. This contract role requires candidates to collaborate with large stakeholder groups and produce various requirements documentation. Guidewire ACE certification is a must. The role also involves working in a hybrid model requiring office attendance 2-3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst.
• Guidewire ACE certification is required.
• Experience working in a Financial Institution.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate collaborative sessions with business stakeholders.
• Perform data mappings and gap analysis.
• Produce various requirements documents.

Skills

Guidewire Suite

Business Analysis

Data Mappings

Stakeholder Analysis

Documentation Skills

Communication

Education

Relevant undergraduate degree

Post-graduate education in Business Analysis

Job description

Guidewire Business Systems Analyst - Contract (PC / CC)

Role & Responsibilities

• Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review. Apply advanced elicitation techniques to work with different types of stakeholder groups
• Perform data mappings, reverse engineering, documenting as-is flows, performing gap analysis and elicit requirements to support to-be end state
• Perform business analysis includes understanding of business objectives, planning, eliciting, scoping, analyzing, documenting, prioritization, managing changes, maintaining traceability, managing backlogs, stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
• Produce requirements documents – Problem Opportunity Analysis, Scope Modelling, Business Process Mapping, Business Context Diagraming, High-level and Detailed Requirements, Use Cases & Scenarios, Business Rules & Data Catalogue, User Stories, Story Decomposition, Story Mapping and Requirements traceability
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standard

What do you need to succeed?

• Minimum 7 years of experience in a Business Systems Analyst role with proven experience in Guidewire suite preferably last 1-2 yrs on Guidewire Digital platform.
• Guidewire ACE certified is a Must have!
• This role will require candidates to travel to office 2-3 days a week
• Experienced in facilitating and collaborating with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements. Expert in performing data mappings, reverse engineering, gap analysis, documenting as-is and to-be flows and requirements, understanding of business objectives, planning, eliciting, scoping, analyzing, documenting, prioritization, managing change, maintaining traceability, managing backlogs, stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
• Expert level of requirements analysis and documentation skills – Problem Opportunity Analysis, Scope Modelling, Business Process Mapping, Business Context Diagraming, High-level and Detailed Requirements, Use Cases & Scenarios, Business Rules & Data Catalogue, User Stories, Story Decomposition, Story Mapping, Requirements traceability and non-functional requirements
• Excellent communication, active-listening, relationship-building, self-management, proactive, team-player, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a Financial Institution
• Relevant undergraduate degree and/or post-graduate education in Business Analysis