Specialist - Business Analysis

Job Role: Financial Business Analyst (with experience in financial systems such as Oracle SAP for a P&C insurance company)

Technical Skills (Primary):

• Experience / Industry knowledge: Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst in Finance Systems with extensive experience in the insurance industry
• Basic Accounting Skills: Self learning ability to write clear business requirements doc
• Write SQL queries Excellent writing skills
• Hands on BA experience writing requirements creating user stories process mapping data modelling maintaining data dictionaries etc.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and prioritize system enhancements and improvements
• Understand and interact with Guidewire and mainframe constructs in the context of finance systems
• Conduct gap analysis and develop functional specifications for system changes
• Ensure compliance with insurance accounting standards and regulations
• Analyze data impacts on PL statements and Balance Sheets
• Understand basic accounting including balance sheet PL concept
• Work side by side with business teams throughout the life of the project understanding their needs communicating expectations and developing customer centric change proposals
• Create SQL queries and execute in Oracle Postgres Databases
• Strong understanding of insurance accounting principles and practices
• Familiarity with insurance industry regulations and standards particularly in relation to IFRS17 OSFI GISA Facility Association and GAA
• Understanding of ETL transformations and their role in data processing
• Expertise in SQL scripting
• Strong understanding of insurance accounting principles and practices

Soft Skills:

• Familiarity with Guidewire principles PolicyCenter BillingCenter or ClaimCenter
• Knowledge of mainframe constructs and their application in Finance Systems