Business Analyst

Location: Bangalore, India

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DISCOVER your opportunity

Business Analysts bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. The Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting an application or multiple applications within a Delivery Team (or at times across teams). Her/his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Determine & document business requirements by generating User Stories in Agile Scrum.
• Validate the overall IT solution to ensure alignment to business requirements, review requirements and/or specifications with the development and test teams to ensure understanding.
• Using process, system and business knowledge / experience assess the feasibility & benefits of proposed projects.
• Shape user requirements by challenging the business.
• Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solution fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages.
• Help identify how requirements can help make the process more efficient.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing and provide support for issues/changes in production.

The Business Analyst will report to the Business Analyst Lead.

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Knowledge of Wild Commercial would be an advantage.
• Ability to extract and document business requirements by writing User Stories, to support the delivery of a technical solution.
• Must have familiarity with various business analyst techniques e.g., User interviewing / Workshop facilitation / Business Process Modelling / Use Case, As-Is and To-Be Business Process Analysis / Writing Epics & User Stories.
• Proven experience of business analysis within the insurance market. Familiarity with full policy lifecycle, especially Rate/Quote/Bind systems experience.
• Significant experience of supporting all phases of the software development life cycle, including UAT support & oversight.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, create accurate estimates and identify project risks through the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrate stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to build trusting relationships with the business.
• UX design experience & ability to use SQL an advantage.
• Business facing and able to present information in an influencing manner to leadership and business stakeholders.
• A team-oriented individual with strong communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills are essential.
• Proven planning and organization skills, with an ability to work independently, planning their analysis work, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Ability to work with data and complex systems.
• Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile Scrum.
• Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative and user oriented.
• Able to determine and communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability and maintainability.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.

FIND your future

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.

At AXA XL we are happy to talk flexible working. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and consider flexible ways of working for every role. Talk to us about how we can make flexibility work for you.

Learn more at axaxl.com.

Corporate Responsibility

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems.

• Climate: We’re reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
• Water: We’re developing water resilience where it is — and will be — needed most.
• Financial resilience: We’re helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
• Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our “Hearts in Action” programs.

For more information please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.

Diversity & Inclusion

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, 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 axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.