About the job :
Job title: Business System Analyst
Job type: Hybrid and contract to hire
Locations: Greenwich, CT; New York city, NY; Bridgewater, NJ; Durham, NC; Topeka, KS; Boulder, CO; Miami, Florida; Johns Creek, GA
Job description: The business analyst is responsible for supporting; implementing and deploying e-business order entry initiatives in the Annuity and Life insurance space, Products AnnuityNet, LifeSpeed, Smart office, etc. and iPipeline AFFIRM platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Requirements gathering.
- Assist in the development of supporting documentation.
- Analyze business requirements to determine required product build features.
- Model and maintain, carrier products according to IRI/ACORD Standards for PPfA/ PPfL, DPfA/DPfL on VTXml or via manual XML modeling.
- Model products, features, distribution agreements, commissions, funds, ownerships as well as more complex configurations.
- Test to ensure the products function correctly on the Order Entry platforms.
- Facilitate deployments to test regions and production environment.
- Analyze and resolve product production problems.
- Provide support to carriers, distributors and colleagues on modelling questions/issues.
Requirement:
- Experience with Adobe Acrobat PDF forms tagging/editing.
- Familiarity with annuity order entry (e.g. iPipeline Affirm, AnnuityNet) or life insurance eApp (e.g. LifeSpeed, iPipeline Affirm) platforms. Knowledge of ACORD standards, XML Forms Management , VTXml, XML product Modeling PPfA (Product Profile for Annuities), PPfL (Product Profile for Life), DPfA (Distributor Profile for Annuities), DPfL (Distributor Profile for Life), XMLSpy, Xpath Reference, MACRO.
- Strong Business Analyst competencies: requirements gathering, documentation, needs analysis, test plan development and testing.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups of individual (clients, colleagues, subject matter experts).
- Self-starter, willing to explore all possibilities to move a project forward; relentless, always keeping an eye on the client’s delivery date.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills; consultative manner
- An ability to interpret a customer’s business needs by understanding their “why”.
- Able to translate business needs into application and operational requirements.
If you find the role interesting or know someone who might be a good fit, email your resume at parijat.s@stellarconsulting.com to discuss the role further.
