Sr Associate Business Analyst

Senior Associate Business Analyst

Hartford City, Hartford County Connecticut (CT), United States

Experienced BA role responsible for bridging the gap between our IT and business operation teams, ensuring that our systems solutions align with business objectives along with mentoring peers , and managing requirements for medium-to-large insurance projects

What will your essential responsibilities include?

As a Senior Business Analyst, your key responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with users, Technical support team, and stakeholders to determine system requirements, translating and prioritizing them for application enhancements.
• Developing detailed requirements and functional specifications that support user needs, while producing and maintaining comprehensive documentation.
• Negotiating scope and timelines, ensuring alignment between operational needs and IT capabilities, while maintaining end-to-end ownership of deliverables.
• Managing requirement through JIRA processes and assisting in the automation of business requirements.
• Supporting the implementation of new systems and resolving user issues to minimize disruptions in business activities.
• Collaboration with business stakeholder to Facilitate application change planning and driving process improvements to enhance productivity.
• Coaching and mentoring team members and demonstrating leadership by introducing innovative ideas for requirements gathering and solution design.
• Building strong peer relationships across IT to support effective implementations and maintain a robust understanding of assigned systems and processes.

You will report to Technical Delivery Manager/ Application Manager.

• Experience in a business analyst role, with a broad understanding of business technology and applications.
• Knowledge of the insurance business model and its processes, along with foundational understanding across policies and business models.
• Strong negotiation, communication, and analytical skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A results-oriented mindset with excellent time management, organizational, and collaboration skills.
• Expertise in Agile, SAFe, or hybrid methodologies.
• (Desired) Knowledge of SDLC, SQL queries, and Agile methodology.
• Effective communication with business users and IT team.

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business – property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

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AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.

It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at  AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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