Senior Business Analyst - London Market

London Full-Time No home office possible

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Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

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12.08.2025

26.09.2025

As a Senior Business Analyst at Guidewire, your responsibilities will include:

Acting as a subject matter expert on London Market insurance, open market, delegated authority and reinsurance.
Providing context and perspective to the Product Managers designing and prioritizing enhancements to our products.
Attending conferences/seminars to stay current with market modernisation initiatives, understanding their relevance and influence on company strategy.
Research of insurance industry questions, including interpretation and summarization of insurance manuals, regulatory filings, and publications from professional organizations or regulatory bodies.
Helping implementation teams and Partners to understand and interpret the requirements being given to them by insurance carriers.
Being the insurance expert who can help customers, prospective customers, engineering, QA, support, sales, and other groups with questions.
Eliciting, analyzing, specifying, and validating the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
Collaborating with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
Creating sample policies and validating test results to support application feature design.
Diagnosing and reporting issues, following issues to resolution, and working with the development and services teams on workarounds.
Documenting known issues and workarounds for release notes.
Participating in Guidewire events as SME.

5+ years of experience in the London Market insurance, Lloyd’s or Company markets.
3+ years of experience on the IT side of the P&C insurance industry.
Experience working with London Market delegated authority systems for coverholder reporting or data standardization.
Reinsurance experience, including ceded reinsurance solution capabilities and assumed reinsurance requirements.
Technical capacity – you should feel comfortable understanding specifications and be able to communicate with the engineering team on technical decisions.
Experience with market placing platforms. Familiarity with modern, rules-based, configurable software applications.
Ability to translate high level requirements into actionable product features via user stories.
Ability to manage complex initiatives with limited supervision.
Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
Good decision-making and analytical skills.
Ability to excel in a team-oriented environment.
Experience with agile software development is a plus.
A passion for insurance, software systems, and problem solving.