Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leading insurance company meeting the retirement and life insurance needs of individuals and institutions. With a strong financial foundation and risk and investment management expertise, the company delivers tailored solutions to create more secure financial futures. The company's performance has been driven by its culture and core values focused on integrity, teamwork, and the importance of building long-term client relationships. Global Atlantic is a majority-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm. Through its relationship, the company leverages KKR's investment capabilities, scale and access to capital markets to enhance the value it offers clients. KKR's parent company is KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR).

The Global Atlantic Project Management Office is looking for a Business Analyst to lead cross functional analyses and activities which inform both strategic change and operational processes throughout the company. The right person for this role has excellent analytical abilities, has a demonstrated ability to apply analytics to solve business problems and identify opportunities, and has a strong understanding of business strategy, operations and KPI development.

Responsibilities

• Proactively drive change in the company’s business processes that show tangible improvements in the company’s performance
• Assist in delivering on behalf of Global Atlantic project portfolio that aligns with the company's strategy and delivers on key business objectives
• Work closely with portfolio managers and business subject matter experts (SMEs) in driving strategic planning activities during planning and budgeting cycles
• Work closely with product owners, project managers, stakeholders, and development teams to define and document project requirements, scope, systems functions, processes, challenges and opportunities to successfully implement solutions for complex projects
• Conduct research, analysis, and other exploration activities
• Lead business solutioning and requirements elicitation
• Assisting with the development and maintenance of project artifacts
• Assist in creating, refining and documenting user stories and acceptance criteria
• Assist with estimating the size and complexity of work and user stories
• Log risks, issues, dependencies and decisions against user stories or requirements
• Document ongoing changes to scope, priority and requirements
• Providing post-implementation support to measure and ensure project benefits were realized
• Report on critical project KPIs
• Facilitating business requirement walkthrough meetings and partnering with the business on functional specification reviews
• Independently manage projects of light complexity from initiation to implementation
• Continuously contribute to improving the team’s processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Eight (8+) years of progressively responsible business analysis experience in the insurance (preferable Retirement) or financial services industry
• Excellent communication, elicitation and influencing skills with experience on complex projects
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to identify impacts and synthesize data from multiple sources
• Demonstrated self-starter and effective individual contributor
• Strong analytical, organization and interpersonal skills
• Experience working within various delivery methodologies.
• Agile experience preferred. Scaled Agile experience is a plus.
• Ability to excel and lead in a fast-paced environment while taking on diverse responsibilities
• Ability to understand, document and effectively communicate up and down stream system and process impacts
• Strong experience with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Visio a plus
• Must have an entrepreneurial attitude and can work in a fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities
• Experience working with external vendors and outsourced business models is a plus