AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Senior Business Analysts bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. The Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting a product or multiple products within Middle Markets Delivery Team and her/his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests. Senior Business Analysts will also provide senior level support of projects that impact the application(s) s/he supports.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Collect, challenge, facilitate and document business requirements/features in an agile environment.
• Validate the overall IT solution to ensure alignment to business requirements, review requirements and/or specifications with the development and test teams.
• Extensive experience working in an Agile environment including creation and management of user stories.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders reviewing product epics/user stories and getting sign offs in a timely manner.
• Provide adequate technical and functional support on triage and resolution of any defects/control issues within Middle Markets
• Responsible for assisting with project vision through product delivery by maintaining requirements tracebility.
• Perform deliverable reviews and manage measurement of deliverable quality.
• Work with the business users to facilitate user demos, testing, sign offs following the standard Agile process
• Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solution fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages.
• Help identify how requirements can help make the process more efficient.
• Participate in daily scrums with technical teams and work in a Global environment.

The Senior Business Analyst reports to the Senior Delivery Lead.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Ability to understand general business requirements and implement corresponding technical solutions.
• Siginficant technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis.
• Significant technical knowledge including ability to create and execute SQL queries in support of incident and problem analysis
• Ability to work with data and complex systems.
• Knowledge of Salesforce Financial Services Cloud is preferred
• Knowledge of Middle Markets Underwriting process is preferred
• Knowledge of the P&C insurance field.
• Experience with leading and owning financial control process across systems.
• Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile principles.
• Experience creating business process workflows and support product owner with integrated road map reviews
• Must have familiarity with Analyst methodologies e.g. Use Cases; Business Rule Development; User Interface Specs; Functional Specs.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication skills (written and verbal), and be team-oriented.
• Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative, and user oriented.
• Able to determine and expertly communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability and maintainability.
• Ability to present information in an influencing manner to leadership and all business stakeholders.
• Proven planning and organization skills, creating own work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.