About this role
<table border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p> </p> <p><b>Title: Senior Business Analyst</b></p> <p><b>Location: Cedar Rapids, IA / Remote</b></p> <p> </p> <p><b>Company Description:</b></p> <p>Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) is a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with a growing presence in the financial services sector. We offer integrated core software solutions and business services, and a full digital suite for the property and casualty/general insurance; life, pension, and annuities; and reinsurance markets. Sapiens also services the workers’ compensation and financial and compliance markets.</p> <p>Our portfolio includes policy administration, billing, and claims; underwriting, illustration and electronic application; reinsurance and decision management software. Sapiens’ digital platform features customer and agent portals, and a business intelligence platform. With a 30-year track record of delivering to more than 600 organizations, Sapiens’ team of over 4,000 employees operates through our fully-owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. For more information: www.sapiens.com.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>The role of the Business Analyst is to define and ensure quality of business analysis deliverables across the L&A project portfolio. Build out sustainable and consistent business requirements to be incorporated into the long term application lifecycle management across the entire Life Portfolio.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>Job Description:</u></p> <ul> <li>Participate in systems / technology requirement gathering sessions for systems integration, update, and configuration. </li> <li>Serve as the expert on business and user requirements gathering and lead client sessions.</li> <li>Provide guidance and a support to the business Analysis team while acting as a Subject Matter Expert, providing product expertise and leadership on the engagement.</li> <li>Analyze and define systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements to produce functional design specification documents. </li> <li>Develop and implement software/system scripts and integrate workarounds to provide fixes to defined technical issues. </li> <li>Analyze and review test plans, and perform testing of Sapiens software / technologies following development and configuration stages, validating test cases and ensuring full coverage of requirements.</li> <li>Facilitate and participate in team quality reviews of requirement artifacts to ensure requirements are complete, consistent, comprehensible, feasible, and conform to standards.</li> <li>Assist the various teams across the organization with problem resolution while prioritizing and gaining approval for defined requirements.</li> <li>Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.</li> <li>Regularly communicate and coordinate with all stakeholders while coordinating and scope changes and adjustments required.</li> <li>Provide guidance relative to underwriting (manual and underwriting) measures and processes, including evaluating risk against insurance product characteristics</li> <li>Analyze and perform initial configuration and set up of plans, rules and tables in a system support of product definition preferred Analyze implemented solutions to verify objectives are met.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><u>Desired Skills and Experience</u></p> <ul> <li>Minimum of 5-7 years in an individual contributor Business Analysis role. Priority given to candidates who have led engagements. </li> <li>10 years insurance industry experience In Life and Annuities (L&A) Insurance background. This includes but not limited to Whole Life, Term, Disability Income and Universal life products</li> <li>Policy administration knowledge and implementation experience in the insurance industry, specifically Life and Health solutions</li> <li>Requirement gathering and documentation experience</li> <li>Experience working with configurable enterprise systems</li> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li> <li>Excellent customer communication skills</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><b>Sapiens is E- Verified & an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.</b></p>