
Senior IT Business Analyst – Commercial Insurance
RLI Insurance Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Peoria • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $96,264 - $137,657 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and document business and system processes.
- Identify and document emerging business requirements by determining the unique value drivers of business partners.
- Translate business requirements into functionality and manage requirements effectively, while prioritizing competing business demands.
- Create project effort estimates and quantify project specific risks through development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
- Articulate the business/financial impact of business problems.
- Coordinate project delivery with project manager.
- Analyze opportunities for process and system improvements and apply results to eliminate corresponding inefficiencies.
- Perform moderately complex data analysis activities, create and execute complex queries, and critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources.
- Mentor other business analyst.
- Convey user preferences to development teams and demonstrate understanding of business users’ information needs.
- Stay abreast of technology standards/trends and relate to business problems.
- Communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs.
- Determine operational objectives by studying business functions, gathering information, and evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Manage projects as necessary; define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements.
- Participate in operational planning, project planning, and estimating resource effort.
- Act as a liaison between the business units and technology and support teams.
- Train users as needed.
Requirements
- Typically requires Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or related field
- 4+ years of relevant experience
- Deep understanding of P&C insurance, particularly Transportation
- Strong working knowledge of SAFe / Agile framework
- Understands project and project management methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
- Expertise with project delivery methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
- Highly experienced with project and project management methodologies
- Ability to apply analytical methods in business processes to find workable solutions
- Ability to develop solutions within the IT department
- Ability to communicate findings and recommendations to internal and external contacts on business process matters
- Ability to use software to analyze data; proficient with Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence tools
- CPCU/CBAP/IIBA or relevant certifications a plus
- A data and analytical background, SQL knowledge, and experience working on insurance-related products is plus.
Benefits
- Annual bonus plans
- Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
- 401(k) — automatic 3% company contribution
- Annual 401k and ESOP profit-sharing contributions (Up to 15% of eligible earnings)
- Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
- Paid volunteer time off (VTO) to support our communities
- Parental and family care leave
- Flexible & hybrid work arrangements
- Fitness center discounts and free virtual fitness platform
- Employee assistance program
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- 2x base salary for group life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary life, critical illness, & accident insurance for purchase
- Short-term and long-term disability benefits
- Training & certification opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement
- Education bonuses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data analysisSQLproject managementAgileWaterfallbusiness process improvementrequirements gatheringproject estimationcomplex queriesanalytical methods
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvinginterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsprofessional interactioncritical evaluationuser trainingstakeholder engagement
Certifications
CPCUCBAPIIBA