Business Analyst

Principal Duties, Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Assists to develop, validate, document, and maintain business and functional requirements; conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members.
• May work with project teams to support requirements gathering.
• Analyzes source system data in support of integration of applications into a business intelligence environment.
• Defines data mapping specifications to support data transformation.
• Facilitates the identification of common data elements and their definition.
• Facilitates the identification of master data elements and their definition.
• May analyze source system data in support of improving data quality.
• Works with the business to identify data issues and identify potential solutions.
• Proactively works to identify ways to improve data quality through various processes including business rules automation.
• Assists in evaluation of business requests to determine feasibility; researches and identifies options.
• Responds to questions from business and IT teams.
• Assists in evaluation and tracking of new or enhanced solutions to determine potential issues; communicates how problems may affect business and recommends solutions.
• Assists in performing task automation and implements process improvements; recommends enhancements that result in increased quality and service.
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years of IT-related experience, such as business analysis, data analysis, etc.

Preferred:

• LOMA Certification
• ARA Designation

Experience & Skills:

Required:

• Ability to be flexible when needed, take initiative, and demonstrate accountability.
• Intermediate oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods while working under tight deadlines and stressful conditions.
• Intermediate investigative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Intermediate interpersonal skills.
• Ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously; ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department and team projects.
• Ability to balance detail with departmental goals and objectives.
• Ability to foster customer service as needed.
• Ability to translate business needs and problems into viable and accepted solutions.
• Basic negotiating and persuasion skills.
• General business knowledge.
• Intermediate data analysis skill.

Preferred:

• 5-7 years IT-related experience, such as business analysis, data analysis, etc.
• 2+ years life insurance industry knowledge.
• Experience with MDM and/or data governance implementations.