Position: Junior Business Analyst
Location: New York, NY

Job Description:

• General Business Analyst Job Description: Manage essential process documentation and lead project implementation of functional and technical solutions by collaborating with business partners and IT leadership to gather business requirements, provide expertise and guidance and help execute plans to enhance business capability, achieve results and support organizational growth.
• What is driving this need from a business perspective? QBE's Digital Transformation Program is a multi-year effort, consisting of multiple projects to automate key processes and enhance the user experience on various platforms, applications, and portals.
• Travel expectations: Not likely, but there is a slight chance of occasional travel between NYC and Sun Prairie, WI.

Required Skills and Software Experience:

• Five + years of experience as a business analyst or business systems analyst
• Strong capability to gather and document business and functional requirements and assess traceability ta technical specification authored by a solution engineer
• Strong ability to facilitate requirements gathering sessions with a group of remote participants
• Ability to interpret business needs and create high-level requirements and scope statements
• Ability to "roadmap the progressive development of new system features over time
• Procedure analysis and process mapping using Microsoft Visio, Miro, IBM Blue works, etc.
• General data analysis and data-mapping skills
• Strong influencing and leadership skills
• Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Teams, SharePoint)
• Ability to support QA testing and User Acceptance Testing efforts
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Typing speed 35 wpm or higher
• Self-directed / fast learner

Ideal Candidate:

• 3+ years working at a Property/Casualty Insurer
• Knowledge of insurance underwriting concepts
• Familiarity with the Agile SDLC framework
• Ability to perform product demonstrations to stakeholders at all levels of the organization

A typical Day:

• Working remotely for eight hours productively with occasional lengthy days during critical phases
• Daily Stand Up/Scrum/Touch base meetings with small and large teams
• Online working meetings via video-conferencing tool with stakeholders and team
• Possible long portions of the day working independently on assigned tasks
• Some days working in the office (at least one day per week)