Business Analyst - Life Insurance

Full Job Description

Wipro is an exciting organization to work for. In our first year entering, we ranked as a “Top Employer” as part of the Top Employer Institute annual listings, and we were assessed on several key HR practices including People Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Wellbeing and Diversity and Inclusion.

Banking and Financial Services is an area of strategic importance to Wipro, and we are poised to grow significantly in Europe enabling our customers with digital transformation, cloud adoption and other critical digital initiatives. As a trusted partner, we enable our customers adopt digital ways of working through IT and process transformations, increase agility and optimise cost through cloud adoption, automation and AI and drive effective data solutions.

We work closely with our strategic partner ecosystem to add value to our customers though innovation and maximising value of existing or planned investments and assets. We do this through our unique blend of outside–in transformation and inside out transformation underpinned by portfolio of digital services and domain capabilities.

Purpose of the role

We are Insurance and Life Insurance subject matter expert and advice provision and understand the insurance business from an end to end perspective – relevant lines of business, insurance products, processes, data used, systems, applications and infrastructure – all of the relevant technology landscape – including any third party suppliers and providers that the business is dependent on provision of analytical and problem solving; think ‘out of the box’ for improvements.

We are working to improve a wellbeing app with one of the largest UK insurers and need a Business Analyst with a strong background in app development and ideally, a background in insurance.

Business Analyst duties

* Own and lead the functional requirements for wellbeing app.

* Identify where the key priorities are and focus on the short-term priorities but ensure that a plan in place for the longer term items that will work up the backlog.

* Break down the features, ensuring the tickets are written at the right level of detail and scope, signed off and shared with the business and platform teams in line with delivery plans.

* Support the IT teams in their story breakdown, ensuring the right outcomes are met and understanding interdependencies.

* Support PMs and SM ensuring we have a clear view of the delivery plans and where there are dependencies between multiple teams.

* Support team in planning & allocating tickets out among BA team for completion and tracking progress to plan.

* Engage with business and 3rd party suppliers to define the supplier requirements and understand where these may impact business requirements and plans.

* Good knowledge of IT platforms, able to identify the key stakeholders within these teams and engage with them to support the end to end delivery plans.

Keys Skills or Experience

* Senior BA with a background in transformation or modernisation, ideally from the Life Insurance sector,

* Understanding of insurance processes, ways of working, value chain etc,

* Excellent written and oral communication,

* Facilitation skills and able to plan and conduct workshops,

* Good Stakeholder Management skills,

* Self-starter, proactive, independently work and be responsible,

* Knowledge of Agile, Scrum and Kanban, Jira and confluence, concept of role of BA in an Agile project

* Ability to work in a team but also work independently when required,

* Ability to quickly understand the Business processes and map them out,

* Excellent presentation skills/ visual representations

BENEFITS:

As the successful applicant you will receive a competitive salary, a generous benefits package and training & development in areas to help you improve.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Wipro is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and makes all employment and employment-related decisions without regard to a person's race, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law