Intermediate Banking Guidewire Business Analyst - R_1475082

Guidewire Business Analyst

Hybrid - 2 days a week onsite

Downtown Toronto

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Work with various stakeholders to elicit and document technical requirements and take them to end 2 end execution
• Works independently as the senior or lead business analyst and coaches and guides members within area of expertise
• Leads the Requirements Management for moderate to high complexity/risk initiatives
• Possesses discipline, rigor skills and subject matter knowledge to the requirements elaboration and validation process
• Supports the identification, maintenance and reporting of traceability of requirements
• Can drive signoffs on requirements , functional design and data mappings
• Ensure vendor solutions meet contractual , regulatory and business expectations
• Effectively communicate with Senior business stakeholders , Product owners and leadership
• Act as primary liaison between internal teams and vendors

Technical Requirements

• Translate business needs into Guidewire compatible requirements
• Gather and document functional and non functional requirements
• Define Guidewire Configuration & Integration requirements
• Data mapping experience of API request and response , define schema contracts
• Strong understanding of programming languages - Java , Gosu , SQL scripting

Skills

• -Strong understanding of API Tools and contracts to define requirements
• Guidewire PolicyCenter / BillingCenter Cloud Certified professional
• Superior analytical abilities
• Excellent math skills; Mathematics or Actuarial Science degree would be an asset.
• Expertise in Excel
• Excellent communication skills
• 5+ years of previous Business System Analyst experience
• Good understanding of personal lines insurance products and pricing
• Experience with insurance policy management systems or rating engines preferred
• Understanding of Agile methodology and previous experience working in an Agile environment preferred

Soft Skills

• Expert level written communication and structured documentation skills
• Vendor management and negotiation skills
• Analytical and problem solving mindset
• Work with Business Systems Analysts to communicate and clarify requirements to ensure understanding of all details.
• Engage and coordinate work effort with Guidewire analysts and other technology teams on cross-functional projects.
• Effectively manage timelines to deliver changes according to project schedules and regulatory deadlines.
• Support testing and quality control of all changes, including execution of automated testing and building test cases for manual testing.
• Thoroughly document business requirements, issues, test plans and test results.
• Identify risks and recommend appropriate solutions and mitigation strategies.
• Implement recurrent data updates including VICC, premium capping, postal code/GeoData.
• Respond to ad hoc inquiries and conduct investigations into rating issues and questions as required.

Requirements:

• Superior analytical abilities
• Excellent math skills; Mathematics or Actuarial Science degree would be an asset.
• Expertise in Excel
• Excellent communication skills
• 3-5 years previous Business Analyst experience
• Good understanding of personal lines insurance products and pricing
• Experience with insurance policy management systems or rating engines preferred
• Understanding of Agile methodology and previous experience working in an Agile environment preferred