Founded in 1972, ShelterPoint Life has grown into New York’s largest Statutory Short-Term Disability (DBL) insurance carrier. Providing NY DBL for over 45 years as our core product, has helped us build deep expertise in statutory insurance coverages – both in, and outside of New York State.

As a result, more than 184,000 New York employers trust us to help them strike the right balance between compliance, coverage, and cost to complete their DBL/PFL equation.

Ranked #1 in New York in statutory short-term disability premiums1
Ranked #6 nationwide by NAIC in total short-term disability lives covered2

In 2014, ShelterPoint Life acquired ShelterPoint Insurance Company (f/k/a JM Insurance Company, a FL-domiciled carrier). Together, as the ShelterPoint Family of Companies, we:

• Are licensed in 50 jurisdictions
• Insure more than 1.9 million members.
• Offer a broad portfolio of group benefits such as Dental, Vision, Hospital Cash, Medical Gap, etc.
  Stand by a distribution model exclusively through independent agents and brokers.

¹State of New York Workers' Compensation Board, form DB-680, 2016 – applies to statutory disability premiums under ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company only.

²NAIC, 2013 Market Share Reports – applies to ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company only.

***This position requires employees to report to Garden City, NY office every Tuesday.

***All Shelter Point employees are taxed New York State Taxes.

Job Summary:

The Business Analyst will be responsible for business and functional requirements definition for various new and existing IT applications, downstream systems and reports. The business analyst will also be responsible for planning and facilitating user acceptance testing.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Identify and translate business needs into clearly defined requirements for insurance software applications.
• Develop requirements documentation inclusive of user stories/ use cases, process flows, data flows and report mock-ups.
• Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements gathering sessions, meetings, and presentations.
• Build strong relationships within the business units and support functions to understand the business needs.
• Collaborate with development and testing teams to provide subject matter expertise, ensure that out of the box functionality is leveraged and to assist in troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Ensure that proposed solutions are focused on improving efficiency and effectiveness of the business processes, and are consistent across products where possible.
• Participate in the development and planning of the User Acceptance Testing activities, including test plans and scripts, based on requirements.
• Facilitate UAT execution phase and work with business lead and project manager to obtain user acceptance test signoff.
• Team player who works well with technical and business resources.
• Meet objectives & goals set forth by management
• Perform additional projects/duties as assigned by management.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies is a plus.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience in Business Analysis – Requirements documentation, Functional testing, Reporting tools, Relational databases, SQL.
• Experience in programming is a plus.
• Experience working in Insurance/Benefits industry is a big plus.