Business Analyst – Insurance / Reinsurance (Data & Analytics)

Business Engagement & Requirement Discovery

• Work closely with underwriting, finance, and claims teams to understand current reporting challenges, manual processes, and decision-making gaps.
• Conduct requirement workshops and one-on-one discussions with business users to identify priority use cases for analytics and reporting.
• Act as the primary business interface between stakeholders and technical (BI / data) teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment.

Analytics & Reporting Enablement

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, KPIs, metrics and dashboard requirements.
• Support the identification of predictive and analytical use cases (e.g., risk insights, revenue indicators, portfolio trends) based on available data.
• Collaborate with BI developers to validate dashboards, ensure business relevance, and drive adoption by end users.

Data Understanding & Validation

• Analyze data sourced directly from core insurance systems (no existing data warehouse / ODS) and support data validation with business users.
• Help define logical data views and business definitions to enable consistent reporting and self‑service analytics where feasible.
• Identify data quality issues and work with technical teams to prioritize remediation.

Pilot Execution & Value Demonstration

• Support the execution of a pilot engagement by ensuring early delivery of high‑impact dashboards and insights.
• Contribute to recommendations and a future analytics roadmap based on pilot outcomes.

Required Skills & Experience

Domain Expertise

• Strong experience in Insurance or Reinsurance, preferably in underwriting, reinsurance treaties, exposure management, claims, or finance reporting.
• Ability to speak the business language of insurance and translate it into analytical requirements.

Data & BI Knowledge

• Good understanding of Power BI (dashboard concepts, KPIs, filters, user interaction) or similar  BI tools like Cognos
• Comfort working with raw, structured data from core systems in on‑prem environments.