- Collaborate with project managers and sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
- Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish appropriate business analysis plans.
- Gather requirements via interviews, workshops, questionnaires, surveys, research, shadowing, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
- Identify and establish scope of requirements analysis on projects, defining impacts, outcome criteria, and metrics where possible.
- Analyze collected requirements using established methods to prioritize, organize and model requirements, define assumptions & constraints, and verify and validate requirements.
- Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
- Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
- Develop and utilize standard tools to produce accurate and concise requirements specifications.
- Translate conceptual business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible by the audience (whether technical or non-technical).
- Where applicable, develop mock-ups, models and/or visualizations of interfaces, software and systems to communicate and verify requirements.
- Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
- Participate in requirement reviews to ensure that specifications are correctly interpreted.
- Manage requirements, ensuring traceability and accurate status throughout the system development and project lifecycles.
- Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements – verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
- Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
- Participate in the QA of solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
- 8+ years as a business analyst with demonstrated experience in developing detailed business requirements, system requirements and supporting user acceptance testing.
- Post-secondary education (business administration, computer science, finance or information systems preferred) or the equivalent knowledge gained through combination of education, training and experience.
- Prior experience in insurance or financial services.
- Experience bridging the gap between business and technical stakeholders.
- Basic working knowledge of SQL.
- Experience with reporting and data analysis.
- Experience interfacing with external suppliers and consultants.
- Experience working with both traditional waterfall and agile methods.
- Experience working with both on-site and distributed/remote stakeholders and teams.
- Understanding end-to-end system landscapes (user interfaces to databases to hardware, cloud and on-premise systems).
- Experience working with vendors to implement software packages.
- Detailed knowledge of group life & health, property & casualty insurance, reinsurance, and/or accounting are significant assets.
- Knowledge of MS Power Platform, Azure and Azure DevOps, programming and/or software configuration are significant assets.
- IIBA, PMI or Agile certifications are assets.
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Description
Role Description
:The Business Analyst is a core resource on both strategic projects and operational teams. This role will be accountable to collaborate with the business and the IT teams to manage requirements through the delivery lifecycle. Business Analysts participate in work ranging from implementations of new or existing solutions, both on-prem or cloud, assisting in the preparation and delivery of strategies, and the support of operational requests.
Your responsibilities will include:
Your Qualifications:
Who we are:
At BF&M, great talent is at the core of our success across all jurisdictions in which we operate. Key programs are dedicated to appreciating and developing our people through training resources, performance reviews, bonus awards, sports and social events and various opportunities to share knowledge with colleagues from around the world. We strive to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We offer flexible working arrangements with a hybrid model of working in the office and at home.
