Senior Business Analyst

Summary

Join Quanata, a company focused on context-based insurance solutions, as a Senior Business Analyst - Insurance. This role involves working on innovative personal and commercial lines products, collaborating with various teams, and contributing to the design and development of insurance features. You will be responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, translating stakeholder inputs into actionable items, and ensuring the successful delivery of products. The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in P&C insurance, proven experience in business analysis, and a deep understanding of insurance operations and regulatory requirements. This position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Engineering, Business/Economics, Mathematics or similar fields and
• Typically requires 8-10 years 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 of a Senior Business Analyst
• Knowledge of Policy Administration Systems, e.g. Guidewire, Duck Creek, EIS or similar
• Solutions focused and an effective problem solver
• Able 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

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
• Translates stakeholder inputs into meaningful business requirements and rules, and then into acceptance criteria that the scrum teams can deliver against
• Create and maintain detailed documentation on products and processes using a wide variety of technical tools that are constantly evolving
• Demonstrates solid knowledge of Insurance product features, dependencies, operations processes and the regulatory environment to elicit and/or define and document requirements for product features
• Understand business priorities to effectively coordinate multiple streams of work at one time. Prioritizes business needs to identify Minimum Viable Products in order to balance business direction and requirements with cost of development
• Within assigned responsibilities, provide oversight and input into the definition, planning and implementation of insurance projects and features
• Identifies, manages and facilitates the resolution of risks, issues and defects, including through the development and execution of User Acceptance Testing
• Conducts data analysis and provides cohesive, understandable reports and presentations
• May provide release support and/or the development of training on new features delivered to production
• Provides production support and coordinates solutions and remediation of customer impacts, as assigned
• May coordinate, oversee, or perform the development and creation of new or updated policy form templates in communication software (e.g. SmartComm)

Preferred Qualifications

• Operations (underwriting or claims) background and proven experience documenting business requirements and rules as an analyst
• 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