Business Analysts to Guidewire Engagements

This is an extraordinary opportunity to build a rewarding career within Financial Services. Working in highly collaborative teams for world-leading clients, we will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity.

Our vision at Accenture Financial Services is to help financial institutions change to become more agile, digital and human. We create value for our clients by applying innovation and industry expertise at the intersection of business and technology.

Description of Role and Practice

We are looking for Business Analysts to help leading insurance companies to shape their digital strategy and business transformation and help them on their journey to grow their business and stay relevant for their customers. As part of the team, you will be working for some of the biggest financial institutions in the Nordics with a variety of project opportunities such as business transformation, digitalization, data and analytics and process design.

Key responsibilities

• Excellent domain knowledge of Nordic Property & Casualty Insurance to understand and analyze the business needs of the customer
• Ability to lead and facilitate the requirements gathering sessions
• Eliciting requirements and scope using client interviews, documents reviews, legacy analysis, survey and translating client requirements into functional specs
• Ability to create functional specifications in the form of epics, user stories, process flows, use cases, data mappings
• Detailed knowledge of Guidewire applications; Hands on experience working on Guidewire Data Dictionary, Product Designer, cloud apps etc.
• Collaborate with business product owners, architects, actuaries, developers and testers to ensure the solution is built in accordance to defined requirements
• Identifying, capturing, resolving or escalating risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
• Strong business judgement, leadership and integrity; Should be able to take decisions, able to bring healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business problems.
• Ability to work in the global delivery model and be a liaison between the client and software development team situation across different geographies

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Qualitfications

• 7 to 10 years of experience in delivering wide range of technology solutions across P&C Insurance Industry (preferably in the Nordics)
• At least 3 to 5 years of BA experience in Guidewire ClaimCenter / BillingCenter / PolicyCenter
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpretation skills
• Guidewire ACE or Professional BA certifications (ClaimCenter / BillingCenter / PolicyCenter)
• Nice to have experience in GW Cloud implementations, must have BA experience at least one GW implementation
• Agile certifications (Scrum/SAFEe)
• BA / Insurance industry certifications

 What We Offer

• The opportunity to become part of the Technology Financial Services team working for the biggest insurers in Finland and the Nordics
• Collaboration with a Nordic network of talented, passionate colleagues and experts within your field of interest
• Mentoring and continuous evaluation that ensure your career continues to progress
• Great opportunity to develop your business acumen, consulting toolbox, technical and professional skills
• Early leadership roles and opportunity to drive initiatives you are passionate about
• Access to comprehensive tools and frameworks supported by our global organization
• Extensive education programs and development opportunities
• Volunteering opportunities locally and around the world
• A diverse and socially active workforce
• Benefit package with competitive salary, bonus, health insurance, employee stock purchase program and other benefits.
• 4 weeks of paid leave for the first summer working with us - employee wellbeing is highly valued topic for us, we want to ensure everyone gets the needed rest/time off during the summer.
• Work-life balance: good arrangements to combine family life with work and active support for mental health.
• Diverse, inclusive, and socially active workforce
• Ability to craft your career based on your own aspirations, having support from your own mentor

Apply now

We look forward to receiving your application. Apply online. Remember to attach CV and cover letter.

NOTE! Due to the summer holidays, we will come back reviewing job applications in August.

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