Guidewire Business Systems Analyst - Contract 1

GFT Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an experienced Guidewire Business Systems Analyst for a contract role in Toronto. The successful candidate will be responsible for facilitating stakeholder sessions, performing data analysis, and producing detailed requirements documents. This position requires strong analytical skills and a minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role, preferably with familiarity in the Guidewire platform. Candidates will need to work from the office 2-3 days a week.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a Business Systems Analyst role.
• Proven experience on Guidewire platform preferably in the last 1-2 years.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate collaborative sessions with diverse business stakeholders.
• Perform data mappings, gap analysis, and document as-is and to-be flows.
• Produce comprehensive requirements documents and maintain requirements traceability.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Communication skills

Data mapping

Gap analysis

Collaboration

Documentation

Critical thinking

Education

Relevant undergraduate degree in Business Analysis

Tools

Guidewire suite

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 5 years of experience in a Business Systems Analyst role with proven experience in Guidewire suite preferabbly last 1-2 yrs on Guidewire platform.
• Guidewire ACE ceritfied is a nice to 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