IT Business Analyst

Marsh; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsh Corporate in Kuala Lumpur is seeking an IT Business Analyst to join our Technology team. This hybrid role requires three days in the office weekly to support Japan-focused delivery and collaboration with business leaders, vendors, and technical teams.

You will translate business needs into clear requirements, maintain traceability, document processes, and support testing and UAT. Must have 5+ years in business analysis and Japanese language proficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience fulfilling the role of a Business Analyst within the insurance industry.
• Demonstrable experience across a range of projects, both technology and non-technology.
• Strong business requirements analysis, written, presentation, and communication skills.
• Good understanding of MongoDB MEAN (Express.js, Angular, Node.js) and MERN (Express.js, React, Node.js) stack
• Over 5 years of experience analyzing business problems and designing solutions.
• Ability to elicit, articulate, and document process models, requirements, and business scenarios using user stories.
• Stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to gain consensus and sign-off.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with IT and business managers.
• Experience with Agentic AI: Familiarity with agentic development concepts, such as designing or utilizing autonomous AI agents to automate business workflows and data analysis.
• Ability to speak Japanese is a MUST.

Responsibilities

• Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating business needs into clear requirements and user stories, ensuring the successful delivery of product solutions.
• Provide traceability of business requirements to IT solutions and ensure system testing encompasses existing capabilities as well as future functional requirements.
• Analyze, design, redesign, and document “as is” and “to be” business processes.
• Ensure that all documentation is thorough, accurate, and adheres to organizational standards, including process maps, and user stories.
• Ensure the development team has a clear understanding of the requirements.
• Support testing and validation of product features to ensure they meet business needs.
• Conduct or facilitate acceptance testing with the user community, including developing UAT test scenarios and scripts.
• Develop and deliver training and supplemental materials, providing support to end-users and internal teams as needed.
• Partner with Business/IT to define and manage scope for each release.
• Support the product lifecycle from planning to deployment, including prioritization and backlog grooming.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Japanese language

Agentic AI familiarity

MongoDB MEAN/MERN understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

MongoDB

Express.js

Angular

Node.js

React

Job description

Company:

Marsh Corporate

Description:

We are seeking a talented IT Business Analyst to join our Technology team at Marsh. This role will be based in our Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia office. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

This role is part of our technology team supporting the development and delivery for Japan. You will collaborate closely with business leaders, vendors, and technical teams to identify business needs, define process requirements and system specifications, and implement the solutions.

We will count on you to:

• Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating business needs into clear requirements and user stories, ensuring the successful delivery of product solutions.

• Provide traceability of business requirements to IT solutions and ensure system testing encompasses existing capabilities as well as future functional requirements.

• Analyze, design, redesign, and document “as is” and “to be” business processes.

• Ensure that all documentation is thorough, accurate, and adheres to organizational standards, including process maps, and user stories.

• Ensure the development team has a clear understanding of the requirements.

• Support testing and validation of product features to ensure they meet business needs.

• Conduct or facilitate acceptance testing with the user community, including developing UAT test scenarios and scripts.

• Develop and deliver training and supplemental materials, providing support to end-users and internal teams as needed.

• Partner with Business/IT to define and manage scope for each release.

• Support the product lifecycle from planning to deployment, including prioritization and backlog grooming.

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Proven experience fulfilling the role of a Business Analyst within the insurance industry.

• Demonstrable experience across a range of projects, both technology and non-technology.

• Strong business requirements analysis, written, presentation, and communication skills.

• Good understanding of MongoDB MEAN (Express.js, Angular, Node.js) and MERN (Express.js, React, Node.js) stack

• Over 5 years of experience analyzing business problems and designing solutions.

• Ability to elicit, articulate, and document process models, requirements, and business scenarios using user stories.

• Stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to gain consensus and sign-off.

• Ability to build strong working relationships with IT and business managers.

• Experience with Agentic AI: Familiarity with agentic development concepts, such as designing or utilizing autonomous AI agents to automate business workflows and data analysis.

• Ability to speak Japanese is a MUST.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience working in fast-paced, dynamic environments with rapidly emerging requirements.

• Experience working on international projects, particularly related to Japan.

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills to support cross-cultural and cross-functional teams.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.

• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.