Description

Description: Principal Duties, Responsibilities & Essential Functions

  1. Assists to develop, validate, document, and maintain business and functional requirements; conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members.
  2. May work with project teams to support requirements gathering.
    1. Analyzes source system data in support of integration of applications into a business intelligence environment.
    2. Defines data mapping specifications to support data transformation.
    3. Facilitates the identification of common data elements and their definition.
    4. Facilitates the identification of master data elements and their definition.
  3. May analyze source system data, etc. in support of improving data quality.
    1. Works with the business to identify data issues and identify potential solutions.
    2. Proactively works to identify ways to improve  data quality through various processes including business rules automation.
  4. Assists in evaluation of business requests to determine feasibility; researches and identifies options.
  5. Responds to questions from business and IT teams.
  6. Assists in evaluation and tracking of new or enhanced solutions to determine potential issues; communicates how problems may affect business and recommends solutions.
  7. Assists in performing task automation and implements process improvements; recommends enhancements that result in increased quality and service.
  8. Maintains regular and predictable attendance.
  9. Performs other duties as assigned.

 

Job Specifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • 3-5 years of IT-related experience, such as business analysis, data analysis, etc.

Preferred:

  • LOMA Certification
  • ARA Designation

 

Experience & Skills:

Required:

  •  Ability to be flexible when needed, take initiative, and demonstrate accountability.
  • Intermediate oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge.
  • Ability to quickly adapt to new methods while working under tight deadlines and stressful conditions.
  • Intermediate investigative, analytical, and problem solving skills.
  • Intermediate interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously; ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department and team projects.
  • Ability to balance detail with departmental goals and objectives.
  • Ability to foster customer service as needed.
  • Ability to translate business needs and problems into viable and accepted solutions.
  • Basic negotiating and persuasion skills.
  • General business knowledge.
  • Intermediate data analysis skill.
  • General business knowledge.

Preferred:

  • 5-7 years IT-related experience, such as business analysis, data analysis, etc.
  • 2+ years life insurance industry knowledge.
  • Experience with MDM and/or data governance implementations.
  • Experience with SSRS reporting.
  • Experience with MDS/Profisee.
  • Intermediate Reporting Services skills.

Education

Any Graduate