Business Analyst

Job title:                                 Business Analyst

Location:                                London

Hours:                                    Full-time

Wage:                                     £75,000 - £85,000

Work Pattern:                      Monday – Friday

Employer:                              Endurance Business Services Limited

Duration:                               Permanent

Date advert posted:                         3 January 2019

Closing date:                                     31 January 2019

Job description

Sompo International is seeking a Business Analyst to join its IT Business Systems Analysis team in the London office.

Key responsibilities

• Managing the small change demand management process end to end. This includes handling: leading the requirements gathering, prioritization, capacity planning, status updates (reporting), UAT, sign off / production;
• collaborating closely with stakeholders to understand their business requirements, informational needs and data sources. Translate these business needs into a clearly defined and detailed business requirements document, inclusive of business use cases, process flows, traceability matrices as well as report mock-ups;
• ensuring that processes are implemented to take full advantage of the capabilities of the systems;
• planning, facilitating and conducting requirements gathering sessions, meetings and presentations;
• planning and facilitating user acceptance testing with business stakeholders;
• maintaining regular communication with Finance stakeholders regarding change request activities;
• focusing on improving efficiency and effectiveness of Finance business processes;
• building strong relationships and foster communication between Finance and IT teams;
• resolving conflicting priories in scope, schedule and cost for change requests among various stakeholder groups; and
• gaining an understanding of assumed Reinsurance and Ceded Reinsurance concepts.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

The successful candidate must possess the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration or IT;
• significant experience (minimum 5 years) with business and technical requirements analysis;
• relevant SAP System Implementation experience & experience with integration of SAP system to Underwriting systems and other legacy systems;
• relevant knowledge and experience with SAP Financial services systems FS-RI, FS-CD and it's interface to FI-GL;
• relevant knowledge of Specialty Insurance and Reinsurance;
• ability to translate business needs into IT deliverables;
  • multi-disciplinary information technology familiarity with proven systems deployment experience;
• experience using PPM tools;
• experience with Microsoft Office;
• strong problem-solving and analytical skills; and
• excellent written and verbal communication skills.

To apply: please upload your CV and a cover letter directly through the portal.

Date posted: 3 January 2019

Closing date: 31 January 2019