Senior Business Analyst

Sapiens invites seasoned professionals to join our UK team as a Senior Business Systems Analyst, offering a unique opportunity for those who appreciate incorporating travel into their professional endeavors.

If you possess comprehensive project experience within financial services, particularly in areas such as Life, Pensions, or banking/Investments, we eagerly await your application to join our team

Location: Cardiff based (or reasonable commutable distance)

Please note that we are not offering Visa/Relocation support for this vacancy, and we are not considering applicants on a Student Visa.

Working model: Hybrid (flexible)

Key responsibilities …

• Participate fully and a play a key role in the delivery of software solutions to our clients.
• Responsible for documentation and production of Project deliverables.
• Ensure all Requirements, Design, Interface, and Output Deliverables are delivered on time.
• Act as a Consultant in requirement and design workshops internally and externally.
• Manage and Engage with Lead BA/Project Director/Delivery Manager on all project Deliverables, Actions, Assumptions, Risks, Issues, Decisions and Constraints.
• Support Product Owner (or act as Product Owner) especially in defining and refining the Backlog.
• Review and sign-off all assigned User Stories.
• Support Development throughout the build phase, including the technical design.
• Review the Test Scripts and support testing throughout test phase.
• Help define acceptance criteria and high-level estimates.
• Working to Sapiens processes & Sapiens best practices.
• Provide clients with functional analysis and design advice guidance and consultancy in Sapiens’s solution throughout the project.
• Manage and participate in Peer Review activities, interacting with other Business Analysts, to ensure quality and completeness of requirement and design work.
• Support the definition and ongoing management of User Stories.
• Support the Client through go live and assist to resolve issues and queries
• Support and mentor more junior members of the team

 Skills and Experience required …

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• Extensive financial services (Life, Pensions, or banking/Investments) project experience
• Customer-facing experience (internal or external)
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Experience of supporting the design of end-to-end solutions
• Experience of implementing significant functional change
• Experienced in full project lifecycle having been involved in numerous system implementation or enhancement projects
• Willingness to travel to client sites.  International travel may be required.
• Good understanding of SQL/relational databases

Desirable

• Experience of working in the early stages of a project, especially supporting pre-sales and scope definition activities.

• Systems Integration experience.
• Previous experience working with a policy administration system.

Ideal qualifications for this role are …

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (International Institute of Business Analysis)
• CII
• ISEB/BCS/ACII / FPC / AFPC or equivalent         

About us …

Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative, and agile. Backed by 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers’ digital transformation. Serving more than 600 customers in 30 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across Property & Casualty, Workers’ Compensation and Life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management. Sapiens’ team of more than 5,000 employees operates through our offices in North America, the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

Sapiens is an E-Verified & Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.

lisa.smith@sapiens.com is your contact for this opportunity.