Sr Analyst, Business Systems - Google

Definity is the parent company to some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We can’t do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It’s better here.

What can you expect in this role?

• Facilitate collaborative sessions with diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, impact analysis, identify influencer groups, review and prioritize
• Participate in various Agile ceremonies, alongside the Platform/Product Owner
• Writing and developing user stories, user acceptance test plan, strategies and leading the overall testing activities for medium to large initiatives
• Develop use cases, defining and documenting processes and workflows, and how each class of user interacts with each system function
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives
• Provide ongoing requirements/build/testing support to the developers and QA team
• Creation and Communication (verbal & written) of - Executive Summaries for Executives regarding incident/change updates, etc.
• Maintains an overall understanding of all changes impacting Microservices and Integration platfrom, including vendor, and external implementations outside of portfolio

 What do you bring to the role?

• 5-10 years of relevant career BA/BSA experience in an Agile environment (preferably in Banking/Financial industry). Expert at project intake, documentation, testing and developing high level plans
• Possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Adept in Waterfall, Iterative and/or Agile environments
• Organized with the ability to quickly prioritize and effectively handle critical issues or competing priorities; move with agility from one task to another
• Ability to effectively facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review
• Demonstrate a high degree of self-motivation and tenacity to get the job done
• Experience with data and cloud
• Exposure to GCP cloud architecture
• Proficiency in MS Office, SharePoint, Service Now, JIRA and Confluence applications
• Proficient with UML Diagrams: Use case diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Business process Model, and Notation, prototypes, wireframes using Microsoft Visio and Lucid Chart
• Excellent communication skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, inquisitive nature and comfort challenging current practices
• Experience with project estimation in collaboration with teams, build high levels plans and transition to delivery teams 
• This role can be in Kitchener or Toronto

 

We also take potential into consideration. If you don’t have this exact experience, but you know you have what it takes, be sure to give us more insight through your application and cover letter.

 

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We also take potential into consideration. If you don’t have this exact experience, but you know you have what it takes, be sure to give us more insight through your application and cover letter.

Go ahead and expect a lot — you deserve it, and we’ve got it: 

• Hybrid work schedule for most roles
• Company share ownership program
• Pension and savings programs, with company-matched RRSP contributions
• Paid volunteer days and company matching on charitable donations
• Educational resources, tuition assistance, and paid time off to study for exams
• Focus on inclusion with employee groups, support for gender affirmation surgery, access to BIPOC counsellors, access to programs for working parents
• Wellness and recognition programs
• Discounts on products and services

Our inclusive work environment welcomes diversity and supports accessibility. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know by contacting: [email protected]

Background checks
This role requires successful clearance of a background check (including criminal checks and leadership references).

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