Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst Anywhere Type: Contract-to-Hire Category: Business Analysis Industry: Financial Services Workplace Type: Remote Standard Hours: Open Reference ID: JN -102026-108858 Description: Remote Our client requires a senior Business Analyst to serve as the liaison between business units and IT, translating business needs into clear requirements and conceptual designs for technology solutions. The role focuses on claims insurance, with Guidewire Claims Center experience highly desired. This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. Rate: $55.00 to $65.00/hr. w2 Responsibilities: Capture, analyze, and document business and user requirements. Facilitate meetings with IT and business unit management and staff. Understand the business domain, processes, systems, data, and linkages to create project deliverables. Participate in or lead business process analysis to identify requirements. Partner with test teams to prepare testing strategies and execution plans, ensuring test cases map to requirements. Provide guidance for reporting documentation and how-to requirements. Participate in Business Analysis Center of Excellence activities and adhere to best practices. Engage in all project lifecycle phases to ensure business requirements are understood, documented, and met. Define or refine business needs for new or enhanced products, services, or optimized processes. Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and consult to understand goals and objectives. Experience Requirements: Three or more years of business analysis experience supporting medium-sized initiatives. Detail oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple concurrent tasks. Ability to adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent communication skills. Effective meeting facilitation. Clear and effective writing with experience creating technical documentation. Experience eliciting requirements. Skilled in collaborative facilitation methods. Advanced knowledge of business modeling tools, including process and workflow modeling. Knowledge of writing test cases and test plans. Advanced user of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Insurance domain experience preferred, with Guidewire Claims Center background highly desired. Experience with agile methods preferred. Education Requirements: University degree, college diploma, or equivalent business experience. Recruitment Transparency Notice Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (View email address on click.appcast.io, View phone number on click.appcast.io) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process. Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality. If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following: When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until #J-18808-Ljbffr