Principal Business Analyst

Summary

Join Quanata, a company on a mission to improve the world through context-based insurance solutions, as a Principal Business Analyst - Insurance. This role involves working on innovative personal and commercial lines products, requiring experience in P&C insurance operations or underwriting. You will be responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, collaborating with various teams, and translating stakeholder inputs into actionable items. The ideal candidate possesses a strong insurance background, proven business analysis skills, and the ability to solve complex problems. This position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Engineering, Business/Economics, Mathematics or similar fields, or equivalent relevant experience and
• Typically requires 10 - 12 years of prior relevant experience to include 5+ years experience in the US P&C Insurance Industry and demonstrated capability to perform the responsibilities of the role at a principal level
• Knowledge of Policy Administration Systems, e.g. Guidewire, Duck Creek, EIS or similar
• Solutions focused and an effective problem solver
• Ability to work effectively with a high degree of independence and flexibility
• Detail oriented and highly organized
• Ability to build relationships and influence others across various levels of the organization
• Clear communicator who can have effective crucial conversations when warranted
• Proven experience documenting business requirements and rules

Responsibilities

• Elicits, analyzes, and documents business requirements for auto, renters and other P&C personal and commercial lines of business
• Collaborates and consults with other business areas to provide insight and support for insurance business topics and questions
• May work as part of a portfolio/product team to support agile development
• Works cross-functionally within enterprise on projects, committees, and task forces
• Works in an environment that values the ability to be collaborative, independent, assertive and proactive
• Provide Insurance Product, Claims, and/or process knowledge to support design, development, testing and execution of solutions
• May conduct or utilize research methodology and data analysis to inform product decisions, including industry and competitive analysis
• Serves as a lead BA in the Insurance Product & Consulting Team in assigned domain/product area(s)
• Translates stakeholder inputs into meaningful business requirements and rules, and then into acceptance criteria that the scrum teams can deliver against
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of Insurance product features, dependencies, operations processes and the regulatory environment to elicit and/or define and document requirements for product features
• Works in collaboration with Insurance Product & Consulting leadership and key stakeholders to understand, analyze, and communicate product vision and requirements; uses outcomes as measures of success and value delivery
• Collaborates with Product, other BAs, DEV, and vendors (if applicable) to provide a delivery estimate and gain team commitment
• Create and maintain detailed documentation on products and processes using a wide variety of technical tools that are constantly evolving
• Based on assignment, requires the ability to learn, understand and apply in-depth Insurance knowledge to implement and support solutions and vendor integrations, including but not limited to: data analysis, test life cycle, process mapping and operational workflows, vendor relationships and all related dependencies including legal review

Preferred Qualifications

CPCU or related industry designation

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents
• A Headspace app subscription
• Monthly wellness allowance
• A 401(k) Plan with a company match
• A one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion
• Our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day
• All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment
• New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child
• The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent
• All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development
• All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp