Sr. Business Analyst, Reinsurance

Professional Responsibilities

• Solves moderately complex business process problems or proposes solutions to Sapiens management and clients.
• Guides clients in business and process decisions using Reinsurance Policy Administration industry knowledge and expertise.
• Conducts business process analysis, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analysis to align IT solutions with business initiatives.
• Plans, schedules, and leads collaborative requirements elaboration sessions with client's business users.
• Defines and documents clear and concise business requirements that describe business scenarios and processes in language understandable to both technical and domain stakeholders.
• Captures business requirements using Change Requests, Storyboarding, Use Case Modeling, etc.
• Tracks project scope through careful requirements management.
• Works with development and quality assurance teams to schedule requirement reviews.
• Provides input to and review of estimates at each phase of a project.
• Produces output documentation and provides guidance to users as appropriate.
• Prepares for and facilitates Functional User Reviews as part of enhancement delivery.
• Identifies gaps, project and service opportunities, and future enhancements to strengthen industry presence, meet client needs, and seek revenue opportunities.
• Facilitates or participates in periodic sales support: demonstrations, preparation of RFP response, gap analysis studies.

Requirements

• 7+ years of business analysis experience in the Insurance industry, with a focus on Reinsurance products.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Strong facilitation skills.
• Strong domain expertise in functional areas and lines of business relevant to Sapiens' strategy such as Solid commercial, personal lines, or workers comp rating and underwriting.
• Strong knowledge of Use Case modeling.
• Must possess a strong knowledge of the Workers Compensation insurance industry.
• Working knowledge of business modelling, requirements, and analysis & design disciplines of overall iterative software development life cycle.
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate business concepts to both technical and end users.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, MS Project, Visio).
• Experience with relational databases (SQL Server and/or Oracle).