Associate Business Analyst - Canada

Cytora; United States; Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, is seeking an Associate Business Analyst within the Customer Success team. Based remotely or near our Toronto hub, you will translate client needs into clear requirements, support workshops, and design AI-driven workflows that improve insurance outcomes.

You’ll collaborate with engineering and product, own test strategies, and contribute to continuous improvement in an agile setup. Remote options are welcome.

Qualifications

• Proven Business Analysis experience in insurance (underwriting, claims, policy administration, or distribution).
• Experience running client-facing workshops and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools, prompt engineering and AI-assisted workflows; understanding of LLM behaviour.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Work day-to-day within the client delivery team under the coordination of the Delivery Manager, contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and risk identification.
• Support client discovery workshops, challenge existing processes, and identify opportunities to add value to the end user.
• Translate client business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and process designs for engineering and product teams.
• Identify data inputs, system integration touchpoints, and exception scenarios early in the design lifecycle.
• Manage analytical reporting of product performance using tools such as Thoughtspot.
• Design and optimise AI-driven workflows, including prompts and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive analysis tasks and enhance insight generation.
• Ensure solution quality through test strategy ownership, acceptance criteria, UAT, and AI output validation.
• Collaborate within agile delivery teams to manage priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive continuous improvement by monitoring live solutions and iterating to enhance performance.

Skills

Business analysis

Insurance sector experience

Workshop facilitation

AI tools & prompt engineering

LLM understanding

Communication skills

Tools

Thoughtspot

Job description

Shape the Industry and Your Career

At Cytora, now an Applied Systems company, our AI-powered platform is reshaping how insurers and brokers connect, decide, and grow across the global insurance ecosystem. We move fast, think big, and build things that matter. If you’re energized by meaningful innovation and want to shape what’s next in Insurtech, this is where that work happens.

The Role at a Glance

Role: Associate Business Analyst

Team: Customer Success

Location: [Toronto / Remote]

This role is aligned to our hub locations. While we’re especially interested in candidates in or near these areas, we welcome applications from outside of these locations as well.

Position Overview

We’re looking for an Associate Business Analyst to join our Customer Success Team and help drive meaningful outcomes at the intersection of AI and insurance. You’ll collaborate with people who bring diverse perspectives, challenge each other to think bigger, and move together toward shared goals. Here, you’ll have real ownership, real problems to solve, and a team that’s genuinely invested in your growth.

What You’ll Do

• Work day-to-day within the client delivery team under the coordination of the Delivery Manager, contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and risk identification.

• Support client discovery workshops, challenge existing processes, and identify opportunities for Cytora to add value to the end user.

• Translate client business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and process designs that support and direct conversations with engineering and product teams.

• Identify data inputs, system integration touchpoints, and exception scenarios early in the design lifecycle.

• Manage extensive and in depth analytical reporting of product performance, utilising tools such as Thoughtspot.

• Design and optimise AI-driven workflows, including prompt strategies and efficient analytical reporting.

• Continuously identify opportunities to improve BA practice efficiency through AI - including automating repetitive analysis tasks, accelerating documentation and enhancing insight generation.

• Ensure solution quality through test strategy ownership, acceptance criteria, UAT leadership - covering end-to-end scenarios, edge cases, and compliance-sensitive flows, and AI output validation.

• Collaborate within agile delivery teams to manage priorities, risks, and dependencies.

• Drive continuous improvement by monitoring live solutions and enhancing performance through iteration.

What We’re Looking For

If this role sounds like the right next move, we’d love to hear from you. You might bring:

• Proven Business Analysis experience, with meaningful exposure to the insurance sector (underwriting, claims, policy administration, or distribution)

• Proven ability to run client-facing workshops and influence senior stakeholders - including the confidence to challenge established thinking constructively

• Practical, hands-on experience with AI tools - including prompt engineering, building AI-assisted workflows, and a clear understanding of LLM behaviour and limitations

• High standard of written and verbal communication.

Bonus points if you also have:

• Multilingual skills: Fluency in English, and the ability to write and speak multiple languages would be advantageous

Our targeted starting base salary in Canada for this position ranges from $60,000 to $75,000 CAD. To determine a new team member’s starting pay, we consider a variety of factors, including someone’s depth, breadth, and variety of experience, skills, and responsibilities. Depending on the role, team members may also be eligible to participate in additional compensation plans such as bonus and commission.

Why Cytora

We’re building the future of insurance and we’re doing it together.

We build a culture that sees you not just your output. You’re a teammate and you matter here. We draw on the full range of our team’s backgrounds and experiences because that diversity is what makes our thinking stronger and our products better.

We believe flexibility fuels performance. Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we empower our teams to work in ways that work best for them.

Here’s what you can expect when you join us:

• Competitive salary + OTE

• Flexible working and remote options

• Professional development budget & conference access

• Annual company retreats

• A mission-driven culture that puts people first

Learn more about the people behind our products at https://www.cytora.com/about-careers.

Your Security Matters:

Our candidates’ personal information and online safety are top of mind. Applied communicates with candidates only via a secure @cytora.com / @appliedsystems.com email address or through our official careers portal. Recruiters will never request payments or ask for financial account or sensitive personal information like Social Security numbers.

AI Utilization

We leverage AI tools to streamline parts of our recruitment workflow (such as resume parsing and interview scheduling). However, candidate screening, interviews, and final decisions are always conducted by real humans.

EEO Statement

Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don’t discriminate, and we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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