Lead Business Analyst, Reinsurance

Sapiens International Corporation is a global leader in intelligent insurance software solutions. The Lead Business Analyst will serve as a client liaison, conducting business process analysis and aligning technology solutions with business initiatives, while also leading requirements elaboration sessions and ensuring effective communication between stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Uses sound judgment and experience to solve moderately complex business process problems or to propose solutions for these problems to Sapiens management and to clients
• Applies Reinsurance industry knowledge and expertise to guide clients in business and process decisions
• Leads business process analysis, needs assessments and preliminary cost/benefits analysis to align IT solutions with business initiatives
• Plans, schedules and leads collaborative requirements elaboration sessions with the client’s business users
• Defines and documents clear and concise business requirements that describe business scenarios and processes in language understandable to both technical and domain stakeholders
• Captures business requirements using Change Requests, Storyboarding, Use Case Modeling, etc
• Tracks project scope through careful requirements management
• Works with development and quality assurance teams to schedule requirement reviews
• Provides input to and review of estimates at each phase of a project
• Produces output documentation and provides guidance to users as appropriate
• Prepares for and facilitates Functional User Reviews as part of enhancement delivery
• Works as the liaison between client stakeholders, project team members, software engineers and quality assurance personnel
• Identifies gaps, project and service opportunities and future enhancements to strengthen our industry presence, meet client needs and seek revenue opportunities
• Facilitates or participates in periodic sales support: demonstrations, preparation of RFP response, gap analysis studies
• Perform other duties as required

Requirements:

• 7+ years of business analysis experience in the Insurance industry, with a focus on Reinsurance products
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills
• Ability to set, drive and achieve deliverables
• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong domain expertise in functional areas and lines of business relevant to Sapiens' strategy such as Solid commercial, personal lines or workers comp rating and underwriting is required
• Strong knowledge of Use Case modelling
• Must possess a strong knowledge of the Workers Compensation insurance industry
• Working knowledge of business modelling, requirements and analysis & design disciplines of overall iterative software development life cycle
• Must demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate business concepts to both technical and end users
• Must demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, MS Project, Visio)
• Experience with relational databases (SQL Server and/or Oracle)
• This position requires travel as needed to support business objectives, with frequency varying based on project demands (up to 20% with some months heavier than others). Therefore, the candidate must be available for travel and on-site work at the customer site. Flexibility with regards to availability for travel, based on project and customer requirements, will be necessary