My client based in Cape Town (Northern Suburbs) is currently looking for a Business Analyst with Financial Accounting and Insurance Experience to join them on an independent contract basis (6 months initially)
Hybrid work model
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Consult with business to identify business information requirements
- Analyse, decompose and model relevant business data requirements in the form of conceptual and logical data models and data definitions
- Assist with conceptualization, proposal of solution and business case development, with a specific focus on the data required to enable the proposed business solution
- Administration, planning and organizing of data modeling work to ensure successful and on time delivery
- Ensure that solutions deliver on business expectation in terms of data acquisition, processing and reporting
- Work with the systems analysts and database designers to ensure that they have a complete understanding of the data structures and information requirements, and verify that the technical implementation of the data management capability satisfies the stated business requirement
- Participate in quality assurance and user acceptance testing
- Investigate production incidents and change requests to identify solutions and work with development team to implement solutions
- Provide support and collaborate with project management, change management, training, design, development and testing competencies
- Comply with company policies and procedures, standards and methodologies
- Stay current on industry practices and trends in the short term insurance and retail distribution environments and contribute innovative ideas for the use of technology and improvement of processes
MANDATORY EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as Business Analyst, with a focus on accounting systems and financial reporting. Financial solutions coupled to data warehousing
- Understand the use of data modeling methodologies and tools e.g. Class modelling, entity relationship modelling, information cluster analysis, star schema design
- Experience with working in an agile environment as part of a scrum team
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Experience in the short term insurance industry advantageous
- Experience in the Financial Services industry advantageous
- Experience in broker-based insurance distribution advantageous
COMPETENCIES
- Strong SQL, Excel (Power Query) querying skills
- Strong understanding of financial concepts
- Understanding accounting processes within Policy Administration System (i.e. Premium and Claim invoicing and settlement) and impact on Finance processes/ systems
- XML and XSD understanding, including querying
Desired Skills:
- Business analysis
- data
- Accounting
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years
Desired Qualification Level:
- Grade 12 / Matric