Senior Business Analyst

Tokio Marine HCC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading specialty insurance group is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst. This role involves driving the analysis of technology and data requirements, gathering business needs, and ensuring successful delivery of projects. Candidates should have strong communication skills and a deep understanding of the insurance industry. The position is permanent and offers a hybrid work environment with opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Collaborative work environment

Career development opportunities

Flexibility in work arrangements

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst in the insurance industry.
• Ability to work on multiple end-to-end software implementations.
• Experience facilitating workshops to gather requirements.

Responsibilities

• Understand business drivers, requirements and processes.
• Represent the business to ensure deliverables meet requirements.
• Support end-to-end delivery of user stories within project teams.

Skills

Business analysis

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Insurance industry knowledge

Agile methodology

Tools

Guidewire

Salesforce

Job description

Senior Business Analyst

Reporting to: Director of Technology & Innovation - Professional Risks

Direct Reports: None

Position Type: Permanent

Our Professional Risks division are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join the existing project team and undertake activities to drive the analysis of the technology and data requirements. A strong understanding of commercial insurance is essential for this role.

To work within the business to drive forward business initiatives. You will perform the requirements gathering, analysis, project work and support to ensure smooth running of projects and business operations. Working across a diverse and challenging portfolio, this role is a crucial part of all stages of the project from requirements gathering, design, test and business readiness. As a result, Senior Business Analysts at TMHCC could be asked to work across multiple projects, or just one, and must be comfortable with being flexible.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in similar previous roles and be able to hit the ground running in a fast-moving environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with all aspects of the business to understand the Professional Risks business, its drivers, requirements, capabilities and processes.
• Representing the business to ensure the target solution and deliverables will meet their requirements.
• Facilitating business workshops to understand and extract requirements and specify user stories, ensuring they meet best practice standards for successful delivery through the software development life cycle.
• Undertake analysis on the data to be migrated and work with the business to define the requirements including success criteria of the data migration.
• Supporting the end-to-end successful delivery of user stories in each wave/sprint, working closely with other members of the project team,
• Creating clear and concise deliverables to ensure project objectives are well understood and successfully completed.
• Providing and sharing knowledge, experience and ideas to help drive the team forwards.
• Establishing effective communication and collaboration across all impacted areas and stakeholders.

Skills and Experience Specification

The successful candidate will be a seasoned Business Analyst with a software delivery focus. It would also suit someone with a history of working on policy administration system implementations.

• Demonstrable experience working as a Business Analyst - business facing within the general insurance industry, ideally within Specialty and London Markets.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to quickly establish rapport with business and technical SME personnel at all levels.
• Ability to explore and challenge sensitively, mindful of organizational history and culture.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end policy journey and the insurance business capability model.
• Excellent documentation skills to create clear business requirements, user stories and or visual representations to support delivery.
• Strong understanding of the full SDLC under different methodologies (incl Agile), with experience of working on multiple end-to-end implementations as part of a large programme.
• Good understanding of and exposure to available market leading technologies (incl Guidewire, Salesforce, Box) within the insurance market would be an advantage.
• QDOS, PI and Liability lines of business but BA staff are moved around the Business units
• Working closely with the underwriters to stabilize the new system (NPAS) due to transition from EY.

Tokio Marine HCC is a leading specialty insurance group with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and other locations. With the strength and stability that comes from being a member of the Tokio Marine group, and more than forty years of growth, profitability, and stability, we offer important insurance products that most people do not even know exist.

Just as we invest in our company, we invest in our employees' careers. We provide our employees a collaborative and rewarding environment within which to gain the knowledge, skills, and experience that lead to a rewarding career. Our products allow our customers to take on opportunity with confidence.

The Tokio Marine HCC Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. Please visit www.tmhcc.com for more information about our companies.

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