Business Analyst

Title: Business Analyst – Life

Location:(Remote - Canada)

About Sapiens:

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.

Business Analyst 

The role of the Business Analyst is to provide an IT interface to the Life Business building out sustainable and consistent business requirements to be incorporated into the long term application lifecycle management across the entire Life Portfolio.  The analyst will be working closely with business units and technical development teams on all projects.    They will engage in client discussions and capture requirements based on interaction with client’s business users. 

Job Description:

• Assist in systems / technology requirement gathering sessions for systems integration, update, and configuration. 
• 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.
• 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. 
• Develop and implement software/system scripts and integrate workarounds to provide fixes to defined technical issues. 
• 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.
• Facilitate and participate in team quality reviews of requirement artifacts to ensure requirements are complete, consistent, comprehensible, feasible, and conform to standards.
• Assist the various teams across the organization with problem resolution while prioritizing and gaining approval for defined requirements.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Regularly communicate and coordinate with all stakeholders while coordinating and scope changes and adjustments required.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years in an individual contributor Business Analysis role.  Priority given to candidates who have led engagements. 
• 5+ 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
• Policy administration, Illustration, Underwriting knowledge and implementation experience in the insurance industry, specifically Life and Health solutions
• Requirement gathering and documentation experience
• Experience working with configurable enterprise systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Actuarial background will be a plus.
• Excellent customer communication skills

At Sapiens, we are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. We believe that diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences make us stronger and more innovative. We are committed to creating a culture where every individual is valued and can thrive regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, or any other characteristic.

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

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