Senior Reinsurance Business Analyst

Essential Job Functions

• Support the functional implementation of an out-of-the-box reinsurance administration application, aligning business needs with standard product capabilities.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, project leadership, and the implementation team for all functional design and delivery matters.
• Drive requirements elicitation, process analysis, and fit-gap assessments across core reinsurance functions, including treaty and facultative administration, claims, technical accounting, cash/accounting, reporting, and close processes.
• Define target business processes, operating procedures, and functional requirements with a strong focus on adopting standard application functionality and minimizing customization.
• Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications, configuration guidance, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria for product, development, and QA teams.
• Lead functional workshops, solution walkthroughs, and decision-making sessions with client stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Partner with technical teams on integration, data conversion, and reporting requirements to ensure end-to-end solution alignment.
• Support application configuration, reference data setup, and validation of business rules in collaboration with product and technical teams.
• Oversee functional testing activities, including test scenario design, system integration testing support, user acceptance testing, defect triage, and business sign-off.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to other business analysts, ensuring quality and consistency across functional deliverables.
• Manage scope, traceability, and change impacts across requirements, design decisions, and implementation deliverables.
• Support client readiness through training, documentation, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization activities.
• Stay current on reinsurance market practices, regulatory considerations, and packaged solution capabilities to guide implementation decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Typically 8+ years of relevant experience as a business analyst or functional lead, including significant experience in insurance or reinsurance system implementations
• Strong domain knowledge of reinsurance administration processes, including treaty and facultative business, claims, technical accounting, cash management, and financial/reporting workflows
• Demonstrated experience supporting functional implementation workstreams for packaged or out-of-the-box enterprise applications
• Strong experience in requirements management, fit-gap analysis, process design, functional specifications, and business stakeholder facilitation
• Proven ability to guide clients toward standard product adoption while balancing business priorities, controls, and delivery timelines
• Experience supporting data migration, integration design, and end-to-end testing in complex enterprise implementations
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to evaluate impacts across business processes and system functions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present to senior stakeholders and facilitate cross-functional workshops
• Experience mentoring junior analysts and coordinating functional activities across multiple workstreams
• Familiarity with Agile, iterative, or hybrid delivery approaches and with tools used for requirements and test management

Other Qualifications

• Experience with commercial reinsurance administration platforms or policy administration systems is required.
• Experience with DXC's SICS Reinsurance Administration application is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of ceded, assumed, and retrocession processes, including proportional and non-proportional contracts, is a plus
• Familiarity with regulatory, statutory, and management reporting requirements related to reinsurance operations is preferred
• Professional certifications in business analysis, insurance, or project delivery are a plus
• Advanced degree in a relevant field is a plus

Pay

$105,500 - $195,900

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Employee wellness
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off