Business Analyst - Underwriting Systems - Outside IR35

Summary: The role of Business Analyst - Product Systems involves working with a global insurance broker to enhance communication between various teams, including Underwriting and IT. The position requires strong communication skills and experience with underwriting and Salesforce. It is offered on a hybrid working contract and classified as outside IR35. The analyst will be responsible for managing requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle and ensuring alignment between business and technical needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• The elicitation, analysis and validation of both system and business requirements to an appropriate level of detail to enable effective development of new or changed software, systems and business processes.
• Working with Development Teams, Quality Assurance, Testing and Product Owners to identify change, agreeing scope, tracking progress & proposing solutions aligned to strategic goals and ambitions.
• The management of requirements throughout the whole of the delivery lifecycle. Facilitating if necessary, the negotiation of trade-offs that are both acceptable to key stakeholders and within budgetary, technical, regulatory and any other constraints.
• Act as the conduit between IT, Operations, Data and Finance teams ensuring requirements are understood and each stakeholder has appropriate involvement.
• Create new and innovative approaches to performing business activities from previous experiences to develop new or improved products, services and/or improving effectiveness of business operations.
• Cross check business requirements against technical requirements to ensure alignment and provide appropriate challenge to ensure successful business outcomes.
• Writing of User Stories and Acceptance Criteria with detailed wireframes and all inputs/outputs carefully considered.
• User testing of Features and User Stories developed following design and development.
• Utilises market knowledge to bring the art of the possible and creative thinking to solving business challenges.

Key Skills:

• Knowledge of the insurance lifecycle including working with quote and bind or policy administration systems.
• Knowledge of Salesforce and its cloud ecosystem
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently and methodically
• Experience of web and cloud technologies and agile methodologies
• Very strong communication, influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to build effective relationships with senior managers and other key internal and external stakeholders
• High impact presentation skills, demonstrated leadership skills and ability to think strategically
• Proactively sharing 'what works best' with others across the organisation
• Actively listens to the views of colleagues and business leaders, but also has the strength of character to challenge where required to ensure operational excellence
• Planning, organising, and managing skills, and ability to prioritise
• Extensive experience gained in an insurance MGA or carrier environment
• Good understanding of Insurance Operations, Data, Credit Control and Finance
• Broad knowledge and understanding of insurance principles, products and services
• An understanding of regulatory requirements, Bordereaux, financial outputs, compliance and the insurance market.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: City of London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other