SATIC Technical BA

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future. 

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society. 

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people’s lives. 

We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Insurance Tech team. As an Insurance Technology Business Analyst, you will be responsible for participating in business requirements review meetings and working with the Product Owner to ensure that requirements for InsureTech projects are captured as user stories that are prioritized and in a ready state. Ready means that stories must be immediately actionable. The development team must be able to determine what needs to be done and the amount of work required to complete the story.

Responsibilities:

• Bridge the gap between the business and technical teams by working closely with the Product Owner to define and communicate the vision and scope for the product or project.
• Work with the Product Owner to stock the product or project backlog to ensure that it represents the overall scope of the project.
• Work with the Product Owner on a continuous basis to refine the backlog by organizing/prioritizing stories, splitting epics into stories that can be delivered within a sprint, and by getting selected stories into a ready state by capturing detailed user requirements before sprint planning.
• Participate in quality assurance activities, including working with the Test Analyst to establish proper test coverage and traceability to requirements, and with the Product Owner to demonstrate developed functionality, and assist with user acceptance testing.
• Work with the Test Analyst to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing.
• Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Participate in POC to support new opportunities.
• Guide and mentor junior Business Analysts.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in business analysis, with a strong focus on the insurance industry.
• Extensive experience with core insurance platforms such as Guidewire InsuranceSuite, Duck Creek Technologies, Sapiens, tia, BriteCore, EIS Group, Insurity, OneShield, Majesco, and FINEOS.
• Experience in writing business requirements and user stories.
• Experience with test methodologies and assisting the Test Analyst in ensuring that delivery meets business requirements.
• Experience in Requirement and Ticket Management tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes is essential.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Beneficial:

• Business Analysis Certification one any of the modern core insurance platforms.
• Business Analysis Certification (IIBA Certified Business Analyst).
• Prior client-facing experience.
• Azure/AWS Cloud experience.

What’s in it for you?

We're exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. As a PwC employee you will be included on our specific Operate training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you!.

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