The Senior Business Analyst is accountable for:

• Provide the link between the customer, development team and any third-party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle
• Support projects and changes within the organization, analysing and challenging current processes with an eye on improvement and automation to facilitate both stability and growth
• Perform detailed analysis of the business processes. Find areas of waste, duplication, or frequent errors (processes that are not as effective as desired). Contribute to identify proper change, document it, get stakeholders support and monitor implementation
• Estimate workload needed to perform a business analysis of any change
• Collect, understand and transmit the business requirements of assigned changes and translate these into functional specifications
• Analyse and document business processes
• Estimate workload needed to perform sanity checks of a requirement / change specified by a business analysis
• Perform sanity checks and conduct user acceptance tests if needed
• Participate to the review process of analysis produced by peers
• Participate to the review of our processes, suggest improvements and contribute to build the Process management framework
• Ensure continuous improvements and micro adjustments to the changes processes to maintain efficient operations
• Report on a regular basis to the line manager: status, risks and issues of outstanding analysis and tests

Background and Skills Required

• Master degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or similar field
• At least 10 years’ experience as Business Analyst, preferably in life insurance sector but at least experience in Finance (Wealth Management, Asset Management or Private banking…)
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Excellent analytical, technical and conceptual thinking skills, able to deliver pragmatic solutions
• Excellent planning, extremely organized with strong time-management skills Ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis and build business case
• Excellent documentation skills, written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills Strong capacity to question and optimize existing processes
• Comfortable working with both business and technical departments
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Ability to integrate a face-paced international environment with resistance to stress
• Continued ambition to further develop and learn, fostering an interest in innovative technologies
• Good knowledge of project management tool JIRA Fluency in English (excellent written and oral communication).

Additional Assets Certification, not mandatory but considered as an asset:

• Methodology: SAFe. Scrum, Prince 2
• Analysis: IREB, IQBBA, IIBA Technical skills, not mandatory but considered as an asset:
• Development: SQL (Microsoft SQL, Oracle), Programming language (JAVA, JavaScript, ...), Kafka, Postman
• Microsoft Office 365 Understanding and experience on AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology