Business Analyst - West Hartford, United States - Beazley

Beazley

Verified Company

West Hartford, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

General:

Job Title:
Business Analyst

Division:
IT

Reports To:
As per Beazley's organizational chart

Key Relationships:
Underwriting, Claims and support staff, IT Development team, IT Operations team, all staff.

Job Summary:
To be responsible for the analysis and requirements definition for Underwriting systems. To develop and maintain excellent relationships with people in all relevant departments in Beazley.

FLSA:
Exempt

Core Skills:

Experience in transforming digital processes, cross platform experience, insurance product experience, knowledge of multiple insurance distribution channels, looking for and negotiating win-win opportunities in delivering value, challenge status quo, look for opportunities to innovate existing business processes, thrive within a self-motivated, agile environment, identify and solve business problems within constraints of delivery environment, critical thinking, intense collaboration.

General
At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do.

It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley's core values and behaviours - PIED and Being Beazley.

Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via elearning or the learning management system.
Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Talent Management development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analyst Activities:

Crossorganization collaboration to define and document comprehensive business and system requirements.
Document business requirements in such a manner that development design teams are able to translate business requirements to deliver the required functionality.
Ensure the business team(s) is involved appropriately in the requirements definition of solutions and that appropriate acceptance criteria are documented for fully testing the business capability.
Work within a variety of project and solution design frameworks as required at Beazley, including scrum and use case tools or any other approach agreed within the team.
Employ a number of techniques when eliciting requirements from business representatives including interviewing and facilitating workshops.
Define and document the data mapping between the legacy systems and any new systems.
Assisting product manager with advocating for the business, prioritization activities, and scrum team oversight.
Help formulate and challenge new IT approaches and systems required to improve business productivity and profitability.
Contribute to the identification and design of innovative solutions to address business needs.
Actively participate within the North American underwriting IT team, offering creative options to improve methods of working and intra team collaboration.
Work with the architecture and data team to promote best practises and investigate opportunities to improve the system landscape.

Outputs:

- **During discovery activity**:

Detail business requirements accurately interpreted for IT use.
Detail end to end process maps (in conjunction with and confirmed by the business) where required.
Identify process improvement opportunities and the associated costs and benefits.
Detail functional and nonfunctional requirements for agreement by the project stakeholders.

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During design and build activity:

Detail change requirements accurately interpreted for IT use.

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During test and release activity:

Identify and develop training needs of user community.
Detail any emerging changes / fixes requiring new specifications.
Responsible for the successful delivery a quality product including but not limited to user acceptance