Jean Edwards Consulting

Business Analyst – SICS Life, Reinsurance

Jean Edwards Consulting

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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SQL

About the role

  • Work closely with business stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document detailed requirements
  • Translate business needs into clear functional and non-functional specifications
  • Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, and process mapping sessions
  • Support delivery across the full project lifecycle (discovery through to implementation)
  • Collaborate with development, QA, and third-party vendors to ensure requirements are understood and delivered effectively
  • Analyse current processes and identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation
  • Support testing activities, including UAT planning, execution, and defect management
  • Assist with data analysis, reconciliation, and validation during system changes or migrations
  • Ensure documentation is maintained to a high standard (BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process flows)

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Business Analyst within Life Reinsurance or Life Insurance
  • Strong understanding of reinsurance concepts (e.g. treaties, facultative, policy lifecycle)
  • Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience with requirements gathering techniques and documentation standards
  • Ability to work across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong experience delivering system migration projects (e.g. legacy to new platform, data migration, transformation programmes)
  • Experience working with or alongside policy administration systems
  • Knowledge of data structures, data mapping, and reconciliation processes
  • Experience within consulting or client-facing environments
  • Familiarity with London Market or global reinsurance operations
  • Strong documentation skills (BRDs, user stories, process mapping tools such as Visio or similar)
  • Experience working with Jira or similar tools
  • Good understanding of data analysis (SQL or similar is advantageous but not essential)
Benefits
  • Flexible working model (remote or hybrid depending on location)
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact transformation programmes within Life Reinsurance
  • Collaborative and supportive team environment
  • Exposure to global clients and complex delivery landscapes
  • Strong focus on professional development and growth
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
requirements gatheringdocumentation standardsdata analysisdata mappingreconciliation processessystem migrationAgileWaterfallprocess mappingSQL
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillscollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilityorganizational skillsfacilitationanalytical thinkingtime management