Guidewire Rating Business Analyst

2 weeks ago


Toronto ON Bay Street, Canada Cognizant Full time

At Cognizant, our global community sets us apart—an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive And with projects at the forefront of innovation, you can build a varied, rewarding career and draw inspiration from dedicated colleagues and leaders. Cognizant is right where you belong.

Role overview

Cognizant is expanding its capabilities and looking for an expert Guidewire Rating Business Analyst. The ideal candidate should possess experience in all aspects of a traditional Business Analyst's role, along with a comprehensive understanding of open systems architecture and rating. This includes integrations with vendor packages, relational databases, message queues, web services, and legacy systems. Additionally, the Business Analyst will be responsible for planning and facilitating user acceptance testing.

What you’ll do
  • Working on Rating and work with Business, will have access to Production data.
  • Requirements Gathering through direct user interviews as well as formal and informal sessions.
  • Analyzing System & Functional Specification.
  • Facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements.
  • Identify and translate business needs into clearly defined requirements for insurance policy administration projects.
  • Develop requirements documentation inclusive of user stories/ use cases, process flows, data flows and report mock-ups.
  • Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements gathering sessions, meetings, and presentations.
  • Build strong relationships within the business units and support functions to understand the business needs.
  • Work with project collaborators during project definition to help the team understand risks, dependencies, and opportunities; participate in requirements definition and review; lend domain expertise to projects.
  • Ensure that proposed solutions are focused on improving efficiency and effectiveness of the business processes and are consistent across products where possible.
What you bring to the role
  • Advanced experience with Rating.
  • Experienced Product Consultant with 3-5 years of demonstrated ability in GW - Policy Center/Billing Center and Functional Business Scorecard and Business Services.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to all audiences verbally and in writing.
  • Experience working in P&C domain.
  • Hands-on experience writing user stories is required., Writing requirements, conducting requirement workshops.
  • Experienced with Agile SCRUM methodology and business analysis methodologies; solid understanding of business analysis documentation standards.
  • Consistent record of creating clear, concise work that reflect a deep understanding of business needs and the out of the box software functionality.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Experience operating and working with business management, including negotiation and presentation skills.
Working arrangements

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2-3 days a week in a client in downtown Toronto. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.



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