An Innovative and pioneering InsurTech provider are recruiting for a Business Analyst with experience of London Insurance Market messaging. As Business Analyst you will play a key role in their Blueprint 2 programme of work.

***Please note that only applicants with London Market Insurance & Messaging experience will be considered for this role***

Responsibilities:

• Define business analysis requirements and configuration specifications for new and existing features
• Write up functional requirements accurately and concisely ensuring clarity and unambiguity
• Analyse, research, and present using various sources and techniques, solutions to complex commercial insurance software functions
• Proactive attitude in assessing needs, which may be brief in some areas, and forming an opinion based on research and prototyping, to present intelligent, imaginative solutions to complex problems
• Own and develop relationship with internal and external partners, working with them to optimise and enhance features, functions, and integration to third party services
• Assist in the preparation of the implementation study documents and subsequent written output required on the project or programme
• Report on common sources of business and technical issues or questions and make recommendations to the product team
• Liaise effectively with the offshore teams especially ensuring a clarity of functional understanding in the transition to design and build
• Communicate key insights, market developments and findings to the product team
• Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve monitoring, discover issues and deliver better value to the customer

Requirements:

• Understanding the construct, purpose and process of messages/messaging in the London insurance market
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with immediate team members, colleagues in across the business and new and existing customers.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Business / Systems Analysis, or working at an insurance company within the underwriting discipline and following markets/domains:

1. General, P&C, Marine, Non-life insurance products in the Lloyd’s of London, London Companies Market, UK commercial/wholesale Market, US excess and surplus market
2. Mid-market and large commercial non-life insurance carriers

• Strong experience in areas such as in underwriting risk analysis, risk triage, pricing, issuance, operational team management, the full end to end insurance lifecycle.
• Proven experience in eliciting requirements and profiling different user persona’s needs
• Experience in analysing data to draw business-relevant conclusions which are presented as business process diagrams, entity life histories and user journeys
• Ability to work proactively in researching, learning, and defining creative options and solutions to simple and highly complex business needs
• Good experience in writing requirement specifications based on Agile methodologies that employ the Epic, Feature, User Story approach
• Proven experience and knowledge in modelling insurance processes and practices into software features and functions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including business and technical writing skills
• Degree level education, where a dissertation or similar research discipline was assessed