Business Analyst
The Global IQX is currently seeking a candidate to fill a Business Analyst position. Business Analyst brings at least 2 years experience in the Financial Services Industry. Experience in Insurance (Group Life & health, Specialty) is preferred. You have worked in a business and technical capacity in the collection of requirements, the design, testing and documentation of complex business systems.
The Business Analyst must be willing and able to travel internationally to work on projects on-site, from 0% to 50% of the time, depending on the project.
The Business Analyst plays a critical role throughout client projects, from the Inception to the Transition phase, and works closely with clients and the Global IQX team to deliver top-quality solutions.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Attend client requirement gathering and gap analysis meetings.
- Conduct review of client requirements documents.
- If the client is responsible for gathering and documenting requirements: review and finalize business requirements, including business process flow, user interface requirements, product rules, business process rules and data element rules, Use cases and, non functional requirements.
- Support from data mapping analysis.
- Support reports data mapping analysis.
- Support interface data mapping analysis.
- Create Analysis and design documents for Global IQX Software solutions.
- Develop and implement business rules using Global IQX 's software - for rating, referrals, underwriting, re-assignments, forms attachment, reporting and business flow.
- Support the creation and validation of functional and integration test cases.
- Support and participate in test execution and other QA activities.
- Review Functional/Transaction Design Documents created by developers.
- Provide Project Manager with status, issue, risk, scope creep updates.
- Escalate issues/risks to Project Manager as appropriate.
- Provide input to project estimates.
- Provide input to R&D regarding Product Enhancement Requests (PER) and Project Change Requests (PCR).
- Plan and execute knowledge transfer to client resources.
- Develop and document expertise in insurance applications.
- Ensure application meets client requirements.
- Create system specifications as needed to support client development requests (e.g., use cases, information and process models, screen layout and navigation, business rules).
- Participate in projects and work with clients to understand their business needs and to resolve business issues (interviews, JAD sessions, documentation analysis).
- Participate in cross-functional teams to identify and document functional requirements, workflow, information sources and distribution paths, and system specifications. Evaluate existing Global IQX applications, which could address client requirements and develop recommendations where appropriate.
- Conduct training and system demos. Working knowledge of ACORD/LOMA standards.
Qualifications
- Post Secondary education in either Computer Science or Business Administration or equivalent years of related work experience.
- 2 - 5 years of product management experience.
- 2 - 5 years of software product development experience.
- Knowledge of the group insurance/ employee benefit industryo Detailed knowledge of the software development life cycle.
- Experience writing detailed use cases and designing web based user interfaces.
- Working knowledge of HTML.
- Strong logic, analytical, and problem solving skills o Advanced interpersonal skills to coordinate major activities.
- Strong presentation skills and comfortable in presenting before peers and clients.
- Strong sense of initiative and detail.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently under pressure, managing several projects simultaneously with minimal supervision.
- Travel is required.
Please submit resume to careers@globaliqx.com. Identify the position title in the subject line of your email and submit your resume in MS Word format only. Please identify your document with your full name (i.e. johnsmith.doc).
Global IQX Inc.
1111 Prince of Wales Drive
5th Floor
Ottawa ON
K2C 3T2
