Business Analyst - Boston, United States - Global Atlantic Financial Group

Global Atlantic Financial Group

Verified Company

Boston, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

COMPANY OVERVIEW
Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leader in the U.S. life insurance and annuity industry, serving the needs of individuals and institutions.

Global Atlantic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management across multiple strategies and capital markets solutions.

We are looking for a diverse team of talented individuals who reinforce our culture of collaboration and innovation.

We are dedicated to the career development of our people because we know they are critical to our long-term success.

Join our team and come grow with us.

The KKR-Global Atlantic partnership - The Global Atlantic Story

COMPANY OVERVIEW
Global Atlantic is one of the fastest growing companies in the Life and Annuity industry. We are focused on the U.S.

retirement and life insurance markets with a broad range of annuities and life insurance options, as well as reinsurance solutions.

Our success is based on competitive and innovative product designs, leading investment management and integrated risk management, along with highly experienced leadership.

Global Atlantic is looking for a diverse team of talented people who support our culture of collaboration and innovation. Our unique entrepreneurial culture encourages all employees to assume significant levels of responsibility.

We are dedicated to the career development of our people because we know they are critical to our long-term success.

Join our team and come grow with us.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Responsibilities:

Build trusted relationships with the project stakeholders to gather requirements and understand their business value and impact
Facilitate the development of business requirements through design thinking workshops, interviews, observation, GAP analyses and other appropriate methods and techniques
Build requirements into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flow diagrams, etc. into the Business requirements document
Translate functional requirements into technical solutions and function as the primary interface to the technical team. Lead end to end testing efforts and assist in defining user acceptance testing scenarios and drafting test cases and executing test cases.
Act as Subject Matter Expert for the features in dedicated areas for all internal and external stakeholders
Lead discussions with key stakeholder to review complex problems and requests. Work closely with stakeholder to identify, design, and implement solutions.
Work with business process owners and customers to analyze and solve complex business problems. Works on complicated and high impact issues. Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, and suggests the best course of action.
Contribute to cross functional project teams that address customer initiatives or IT needs. May develop and disseminate training in areas of focused responsibility to business customers.
Work closely with product owners, project managers, stakeholders, and development teams to define and document project requirements, Test plan, test cases, test defect logs, scope, systems functions, processes, challenges and opportunities to successfully implement solutions for complex projects
Conduct research, analysis, and other exploration activities
Create Visio diagrams outlining the endtoend business process
Proactively communicate project status, issues and solutions to stakeholders. Escalate issues as needed to Workstream Leads, project team members.
Assist in the preparation of presentations using Microsoft Office suite and schedules, attend or facilitate meetings as needed to support project activities.

Skills:

Product development and product ownership mindset, with a focus on delivering business value
Strong Agile mindset and familiarity with other development methodologies.
Experience with Waterfall/Agile/Scrum software development.
Experience with UX, design and product analytics.
Flexible and able to handle ambiguity.
Pragmatic, takes ownership, cool under pressure.
Stakeholder management experience
Excellent communicator and listener, Problem solving and analytical skills
Experience in engaging with stakeholders to lead topics, analyze business requirements, understand technical requirements, documentation.
Project Management (project life cycle/SDLC/cutovers/implementations)
Experience with project management tools/communications at multiple levels
Technical skills i

e:
integrations, analysis, implementations (lifecycle requirements/build/testing/ implementation; SAP/SuccessFactors module specific; upgrades/updates)

Production support, customer service and communications, documentation, etc.
Familiar with Microsoft Office Suite (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, OneNote, MS project, MS Outlook, MS Visio) and other project management tools
Experience in facilitating discussions and conflict resolution