Sr. Associate Business Analyst

Insurance Americas Application Solution Center is part of the AXA XL Global Technology responsible for Policy Administration, ERM, HR, Marketing and Communication, Workplace, Legal, Compliance Applications portfolio management. The team builds the overall strategy, performs SDLC, maintenance, support, and performance improvements for all applications. The Business Analyst will bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders.

The Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting an application or multiple applications within the Application Solutions Team. Her/his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests. Business Analysts will also support projects that impact the application(s) s/he supports.

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Collect, challenge, facilitate and document business requirements as well as define business specifications and requirements.
• Validate the overall IT solution to ensure alignment to business requirements, review requirements and/or specifications with the development and test teams to ensure understanding.
• Using process, system and business knowledge experience assess the feasibility & benefits of proposed automations.
• Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solution fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages.
• Help identify how requirements can help make the process more efficient.

You will report to the Business Analyst Lead.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• 7+ years of experience in business analysis or related role and Analysis experience in Insurance/Reinsurance/Finance applications
• Bachelors degree in engineering or a masters degree in computer science
• Strong knowledge of business analysis methodologies and tools.
• Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Power BI).
• Working with .NET based application and Risk modeling applications would be a plus
• Ability to understand general business requirements and implement corresponding technical solutions.
• Strong technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis, including UAT support & oversight.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and create accurate project estimates. Accurately quantifies project specific risks through the project lifecycle.
• Proven planning and organization skills, creating work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Ability to work with data and complex systems.
• Significant experience in an insurance or technology field.
• Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile principles.
• Must have familiarity with Business Analyst methodologies e.g. Use Cases; Business Rule Development; User Interface Specs; Functional Specs; As-Is and To-Be Business Process Analysis.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication skills (written and verbal), and be team oriented.
• Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative and user oriented.
• Able to determine and communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability and maintainability.
• Ability to present information in an influencing manner to leadership and all business stakeholders.
• Stakeholder management.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.