Senior Business Analyst

at  Allianz Partners

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5-10 years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Educated to degree level.
• Knowledge of Financial Services/ Insurance Industry Sector useful but not essential.
• Strong Communication (verbal & written) and Interpersonal Skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment.
• Experience working in agile.
• Demonstrable ability to think “outside of the box” and innovate.
• Proven ability to drive and manage change.
• Comfortable challenging the ideas of others.
• Strong influencing skills and commercial acumen.
• Capable of working across borders and cross organizational boundaries.
• Proficiency in English is required; proficiency in German is advantageous.

Allianz Partners’ Organization Management department has a unique and exciting job opportunity available for someone who enjoys challenging the status quo and seeking out creative ways to support the company`s ever more complex commercial processes with innovative and robust business and IT solutions.
The candidate required will possess the right balance of technical business analysis knowhow along with influencing and relationship building skills necessary to drive projects to a successful conclusion. Ultimately, this candidate will be responsible for leading the investigation of business systems, identifying areas for improvement and bridging the needs of the business with the use of IT.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you are in charge of the following responsibilities:

• Identify areas for improvement, understand business need, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current processes.
• Identify and drive agreement of scope with senior stakeholders.
• Perform root cause analysis of problems, conduct workshops and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into functional requirement specifications.
• Assist the business stakeholders in prioritizing business requirements and defining new business processes.
• Produce detailed, high quality and clear documentation.
• Work closely with the technical team during the implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects.
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business stakeholders at all levels during the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
• Drive deliverables to completion within challenging timelines ensuring collaboration and effective communication with all stakeholders.
• Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely.
• Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed have been delivered and are ready for release.
• Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process.
• Business travel will be required a few times per year.