Senior Business Analyst, Insurance Accounting

Senior Business Analyst, Insurance Accounting - US Remote Position Summary You’ll collaborate directly with client accounting teams including Controllers, Finance Directors, and CFOs to unlock requirements, optimize processes, and translate business needs into powerful system functionality. You’ll be at the heart of helping insurance organizations modernize how they operate across accounting, billing, payments, and financial reporting. What will you do in this role? Engage directly with accounting stakeholders across all levels, including CFOs, to elicit and validate insurance and operating accounting requirements. Translate complex business and accounting needs into clear user stories, functional specifications, and process flows. Support implementations and enhancements for ConceptOne, Sure MGA, and related insurance accounting, billing, and financial platforms. Partner closely with technical teams across the full SDLC: design, development, testing, and deployment. Analyze current‑state workflows and identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and operational excellence. Support data validation, reconciliation activities, and user acceptance testing (UAT). Facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, training meetings, and stakeholder discussions. Ensure solutions align with accounting standards, regulatory needs, and client‑specific business rules. Contribute to client documentation, training, and knowledge transfer. Other duties as assigned. What do you need to succeed in this role? 3-5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst within accounting, insurance, or financial services. Strong understanding of accounting principles; insurance accounting experience is a big plus. Hands‑on experience with financial systems, insurance platforms, policy administration, or billing/payment systems. A proven track record of gathering, documenting, and communicating complex business and system requirements. Familiarity with Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies. Comfort working directly with CFOs and senior accounting leadership to define operational needs. Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Smartsheet, or similar workflow/documentation tools. Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills. Specific skills/experience required Values driven – You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation. Uncompromising problem solver – You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions. Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units. Instills trust – You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly. Impact & influence – You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives. Benefits Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full‑time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). FTO is activated on your first day with our organization. Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits. Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards. Flexible work arrangements. Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options. HSA employer contribution. Nine (9) paid holidays annually. A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children. 401(k) with employer contributions. CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days. Tuition reimbursement. Generous employee referral bonus program. Client referral bonus program. Pet insurance. FORCE – Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities. Sikich is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. #J-18808-Ljbffr