Role: Business Analyst (Life and Retirement, Annuities Lines of Insurance)

Location: Houston, TX (Onsite).

Following is what we would like to have :

• 8+ years’ experience in the Individual Retirement Insurance industry.
• Experience in Navisys or ALIP policy admin system is preferable. If not, similar policy admin systems are ok.

Who are we looking for?

Looking for a candidate having strong experience in the BA ( Business Analyst) role. Working experience with client coordination and leading a team.

Technical Skills:

· Should be good at Microsoft Office tools like Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.

· Having relevant experience in playing the BA role in green fields development.

· Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business

· Understanding of Insurance business processes.

· Experience in agile methodology

· Requirements management / Requirement analysis / Eliciting requirements

· Requirements organization / Translating and simplifying requirements

· Planning and monitoring

· Financial modelling

· Variance Analysis

· Assisting with the business case

· Budgeting and forecasting

· Experience in Life and Retirement, Annuities Lines of Insurance.

· BA with a Wealth Management background and Policy administration

Process Skills:

· Should have worked on Agile Methodology in prior projects

· Capable of analyzing requirements, creating Business requirements.

· Ability to follow the client process on short notice.

· Sound experience in ticket management tools like Service Now

· Capable of understanding the software development life cycle

· Capable of thinking and providing alternative solutions

· Peer review of intermediate artifacts

· Should have followed the standard SDLC development process

Behavioral Skills :

· Should have good communication skills.

· Resolve technical issues of projects and explore alternate designs

· Participates as a team member and fosters teamwork by inter-group coordination within the modules of the project.

· Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensure client satisfaction

· Train and coach members of project groups to ensure effective knowledge management activity.

Job responsibilities include:

o Project requirements gathering, analysis and management

o Creating Testing Cases & help in execution

o Provide domain training for project Team members

o Should be able to document Non-Functional Requirements; UAT Documentation; Review QA Artifacts; User Manual & Training Documentation; Case Study

o RFP Effort Estimation (Use Case Approach)

o Able to come up with Wire Frame / Screen Mockup/POC

o Should be good at Functional Architecture

o Should be able to perform Gap Analysis and / or Business Process Re-engineering (As-Is & To-Be Process Flow)

o Stakeholder Communication

o Adherence & Contribution to process improvements

o Prepare/Analyze/ Review system documentation

o Mentor/Train members of project groups as a part of knowledge management activity

o Ability to validate/prepare estimates for work in conjunction with the Lead

o Provide status updates to TL/PM/ as required

o Inter-group co-ordination within the modules of the project

o Provide data for Metrics collection

o Implementation and Usage of project related tools