Business Analyst - IL

Novidea is an insurance technology company solving the toughest challenges faced by insurance distribution businesses. Our innovative, data-driven insurance software platform allows to manage the entire policy lifecycle across all lines of business, using data to inform every business decision, cross-sell and up-sell. Novidea delivers a 360-degree business view, and a powerful competitive advantage.

We are looking for an excellent Business Analyst to join the team.

What’s the job:

We are looking for an experienced Agile Business Analyst who is passionate about building products that customers love!

As an essential member of the delivery department, you will guide an Agile team that designs, develops and maintains applications for insurance brokers and agents in the London Market.

As a business Analyst, you will work with cross-functional teams including R&D, Project Delivery and Quality Assurance, to design, build, launch and optimize an end-to-end insurance policy management system that delivers both customer requirements and the company’s vision and strategy.

The potential candidate will possess a blend of technical and business traits, you must be able to effectively translate business needs to technical requirements while building an understanding of the Novidea offering.

This role will focus on two core workstream of our product:

• Integrations - connecting the Novidea platform to strategic and tactical third parties, or SF applications. e.g. London bureau, electronic trading platforms, marketing tools, Premium Finance solutions etc
• Schemes Business - London Market brokers / cover holders who distribute packaged products through a full quote and bind journey. In addition to traditional binder business, Schemes rates and offers up a price based on the specific needs of the agents / end customer.
  
  

• Support management on different aspects of the product, from the roadmap and releases, through to requirements and documentation through your technical or market knowledge, use an evidence-based approach to consider current and future product features
• Use feedback from the product roadmap, internal stakeholders and customers to feed functional requirements to the development team
• Create and refine user stories in collaboration with the product and development teams, converting business requirements into technical specifications
• Communicate the goals of the feature to the development and quality assurance teams, and stakeholders through the use of commonly used storyboards and other tools
• Become the point of contact for questions within your work stream
• Support in the management of sprint content
• Provide low-level elaboration for any development stories, this may include providing
• Business scenarios / examples
• User journeys - UX/UI e.g. within Figma
• Technical specifications e.g., swaggerhub
• Over time, learn the advantages / limitations of working with a Salesforce data model
  
  

• 5-7 years of experience working within software development company- working directly with development teams
• Proven track record in analysis and delivery of software integrations
• Extensive experience writing product requirements
• Competence in system and data analysis
• Computer skills: Competent using JIRA and API contract tools (Swagger Hub or alternative)
• Language skills: Excellent writing and verbal communication skills in English
  
  

• Experience working with Salesforce
• Experience with the Insurtech domain
• Have worked remotely with development teams
• Experience as a Business Analyst within an Agile environment - corresponding ceremonies/methodologies
• Working in / understanding of a company scale up culture
• Interfacing as the supplier to client project teams
• UI or UX experience - providing a fully optimized solution to an end customer