Описание: Pacific Life Re (“PL Re”) requires exemplary quality and practices throughout the organisation. Following extensive global expansion over the last several years and a drive to standardise on common systems and platforms globally, PL Re is now undertaking a large scale back-office transformation programme. This programme will aim to deliver an ambitious but achievable future state vision across all our back-office functions globally.
Задачи
- Identify, understand, develop, and validate business needs from a user perspective, including local Business Unit specific needs and global functional needs.
- Producing and managing both functional and non-functional requirements and supporting the collation of acceptance criteria.
- Writing accurate, visionary, and relevant user stories and requirements.
- Working with the business define clear, accurate acceptance criteria to be used by developers, testers, and business owners to ensure business need are captured and met.
- Endorse business requirements with an emphasis on collaboration, delivery, and a focus on the strategic goals of the project and the business.
- To review and identify opportunities to optimise current business capabilities and processes and drive efficiencies.
- Being technology agnostic when matching business requirements with proposed technology solutions.
- Take a lead role in the project throughout the full project lifecycle from definition of business needs through to solution fulfilling the defined requirements.
- Ability to oversee or co-ordinate activity within the broader Business Analyst community.
- Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders and solution providers in the business and externally.
- Build strong working relationships with business stakeholders and technology enablers, enabling collaboration and effective team dynamics.
- Prioritise local and global business needs, product fixes versus enhancements and tactical versus strategic objectives.
- Having the end business user experience in mind always, ensuring an intuitive and efficient user experience.
- Be responsible for ensuring outcomes align with business vision and strategy, and be an active advocate for change and continual improvement.
- Develop a transparent traceability matrix between business requirements and proposed technical design.
- Collating, reviewing, and updating process and technology documentation to reflect changes in business processes and technology.
Требования
- Experience in the market as a Senior Business Analyst
- Demonstrable experience in effective communication with internal senior stakeholders in the business, understanding and translating their needs to business requirements
- Skills in analysing complexity and documenting business user requirements to create functional requirements
- Skilled at performing business process, gap, capability assessment, and requirements traceability analysis
- Ability to identify opportunities for process optimisation and/or standardisation
- Ability to challenge stakeholders in the business at all levels and the technology / project team to ensure requirements are understood and solutions are appropriately designed to meet business needs
- Practical knowledge of business and industry practices, tools, and techniques
- Ability to mediate between high-level vision and detailed technical analysis
- Experience leading workshops to gather accurate and complete business requirements from key stakeholders in the business
- Understanding of different delivery models including agile and waterfall
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills enabling efficient interaction and collaboration with all stakeholders
- Demonstrates an appropriate level of technical skills for the role and an appreciation of current issues affecting their profession and the life reinsurance industry
- Takes responsibility for the quality, completeness, and accuracy of own work and that of the team under them
- Able to prioritise competing requests and deadlines
- Provides accurate and timely updates on status of work and escalates issues appropriately
- Committed to being an open and fair team member who shares information, knowledge, and experience openly
- Communicates in a clear and practical manner both verbally and in writing, without over-reliance on technical language
- Challenges status quo and is not limited by historical thinking or embedded practices, critically evaluates and challenges current work practices
- Embraces change and can work in a fluid environment with challenging deadlines: able to be flexible and resourceful
- Team player: ability to work with people with a diverse range of skills and experiences and get the best out of every individual
- Agile approach to projects; able to demonstrate the ability to think ahead and always focus on the end goal
- Будет плюсом: Experience or knowledge of working with a wide range of systems such as Tyche, SAP, AXIS, SQL would be an advantage
Условия
- 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
- Adoption and fertility leave
- Generous enhanced parental leave
- Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
- Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary
- Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
- Optical benefits 15% combined employee/employer contributions
- Subsidized gym membership
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Cycle to Work and Electric Car
- Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Time off for volunteering
- Charitable matching of employee donations
Business analyst in life reinsurance employer: Pacific Life Re
At Pacific Life Re, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through mentorship opportunities and cross-functional collaboration, allowing you to thrive in your role as Senior Capital Strategy & Reporting Lead. Located in a dynamic environment, we offer competitive benefits and the chance to make a meaningful impact on strategic decisions within the capital management landscape.
