Senior Business Analyst, Insurance Accounting

Sikich is a professional services firm that offers a diverse platform of services across consulting, technology, and compliance. The Senior Business Analyst will collaborate with client accounting teams to unlock requirements, optimize processes, and translate business needs into effective system functionality for insurance organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with accounting stakeholders across all levels, including CFO’s, to elicit and validate insurance and operating accounting requirements
• Translate complex business and accounting needs into clear user stories, functional specifications, and process flows
• Support implementations and enhancements for ConceptOne, Sure MGA, and related insurance accounting, billing, and financial platforms
• Partner closely with technical teams across the full SDLC: design, development, testing, and deployment
• Analyze current-state workflows and identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and operational excellence
• Support data validation, reconciliation activities, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, training meetings, and stakeholder discussions
• Ensure solutions align with accounting standards, regulatory needs, and client-specific business rules
• Contribute to client documentation, training, and knowledge transfer
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 3–5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst within accounting, insurance, or financial services
• Strong understanding of accounting principles; insurance accounting experience is a big plus
• Hands-on experience with financial systems, insurance platforms, policy administration, or billing/payment systems
• A proven track record of gathering, documenting, and communicating complex business and system requirements
• Familiarity with Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies
• Comfort working directly with CFO's and senior accounting leadership to define operational needs
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Smartsheet, or similar workflow/documentation tools
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Values driven – You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation
• Uncompromising problem solver – You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
• Instills trust – You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly
• Impact & influence – You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives