Job Title: Product Owner/Business Analyst with Insurance client experience (Hybrid 1x/week)

Location: NYC, NY

Visa: No H1B

Duration: Expected to be 6 months with likely extensions based on performance

Temp to Hire? No

What is driving this need from a business perspective?
Increased demand for requirements related to actuarial pricing and rating tools as well as policy forms that require conversion from their legacy state specific to Specialty, Financial Lines, and Aviation Lines of Business.

Job Description
Manage essential process documentation and lead project implementation of functional and technical solutions by collaborating with business partners and IT leadership to gather business requirements, provide expertise and guidance and help execute plans to enhance business capability, achieve results and support organizational strategic priorities.

Skills and Experience

• Strong Business Analysis acumen and experience (5+ years)
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently for results, as well as collaborate with a team
• Proven ability to elicit and document requirements from senior level stakeholders both internal and external
• Role is equal parts Product Owner and Business Analyst - ideal candidates need to have proven experience leading business-driven and IT projects
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across Business, IT and Customer teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including PowerPoint
• Experience with integration and end-to-end solutions including a policy administration system
• Strong command of written and spoken English
• Thinks ahead with autonomy
• Sees an issue and helps fix it without being told to
• A proven Agile leader
• Strong documentation, influencing and leadership skills
• Process and Procedure analysis and mapping experience
• Has led UAT efforts and defect management resolution

Technical Skills

• Experience working with an external web development vendor and internal leadership, using strong technical understanding and business acumen to help bridge the gap
• Moderate Insurance Policy and Form experience
• Any Actuarial or Policy Rating experience with MS Excel to document and define specific actuarial data attributes/elements

• Any experience with external vendors to resolve defects related to web development platforms and languages
• Any Insurance Data Analytics or AI experience with projects that digitize and modernize an underwriting practice
• Generative or Predictive AI experience not required but a plus (ChatGPT, Azure, etc.)
• Extremely proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, etc.)

A Day in the Life of Contractor

• Acts as liaison between business and IT and help drive delivery of project
• Holds daily touch base with on and offshore team members to discuss deliverables and blockers
• Holds elicitation sessions to comprise requirements and user stories
• Inputs data in Excel workbooks containing rating information
• Updates forms in Word
• Creates UAT Test Plan and help business execute test cases
• Triages defects with IT and vendor and help business re-test to resolve issues

Resume

• We need to see a mix of IT and Business driven projects on their resume. We are not looking for someone who has strictly worked on IT projects, regardless of how complex they've been
• Proven experience with Agile
• Insurance industry experience preferred
• The resume needs to be well-written as the person needs to have good communication skills no typos, grammatical errors, etc.
• Resume should be no longer than 3 pages hiring manager will not review any resumes longer than 3 pages and 2 pages is preferred
• Highlights the value they brought to their previous roles
• Lists tangible achievements
• It's a bonus if they include Work Samples/Products to reveal ability to create and organize information