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
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
QUALIFICATIONS
- Tertiary level qualification that includes Financial Accounting
- Relevant Tertiary qualification or certificate/diploma in Business analysis from an industry recognized training institution e.g. CBAP
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
If you would like to apply, please send a copy of your cv to [Email Address Removed]
Desired Skills:
- Financial Accounting
- insurance
- reinsurance
- Business analysis
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