Product Analyst

Product Analyst

Minimum Requirements:

• Related Degree 3 years experience working in Product Team in Long Term Life Insurance or ReInsurance.
• Indepth knowledge of Life Insurance products and processes with emphasis on Product Rules Premium Rates & Charges value calculations and investment structures.
• 5 years of actuarial specialist experience Experience
• Certification in SQL Advanced Excel Agile methodology or similar workflow (e.g. AWD)
• Testing methodologies & tools Financial / Statistical Mathematics
• Competencies:
• Business Acumen Responsive to change encourage and support innovation ClientCentric
• Focused on Diversity and Inclusive Strong listening skills Openness resultoriented
  

Responsibilities:

• Gather and interpret requirements from key stakeholders/customers in line with business analysis and existing product team frameworks.
• Analyse product and business requirements and validate and translate these into clear and effective requirement specifications for each impacted development area.
• Ensure that requirements and business process specifications are documented and presented in line with both current best practice and existing product team specification frameworks.
• In collaboration with project and testing teams oversee the quality delivery of requirements and business process specifications that meet the agreed deliverables in line with best practices and business processes.
• Ensure that requirements and business process specifications are reviewed validated tested and approved by relevant stakeholders at each stage in the development cycle from conceptual to end product.
• Participate in the conceptual solution design process to make recommendations to create and enhance solutions that are innovative duplicable and sustainable and solve complex business problems.
• Collaborate closely with all stakeholders and solutions teams in an ongoing process from end to end to ensure delivery requirements and expectations remain current and adaptive to the changing environment.
• Participate in User Acceptance testing and guide users to ensure that the designed solution ultimately meets business requirements.
• Manage change requests and queries collaborate with all stakeholders and facilitate prioritization of changes to specifications and processes and ensure that queries changes are tracked and accurately resolved.
• Use scenario testing and test cases to ensure that testing covers all aspects of the business specification and anticipated processes.
• Keep abreast of relevant legislative IT and business trends and practices to optimize service offerings and minimize risk.
• Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within the area of responsibility.
• Participate and contribute to a culture that builds rewarding relationships facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.
• Drive client service delivery goal achievement in line with predefined standards to ensure that clients receive appropriate advice and aftersales service.
• Contribute to creating a positive work climate and culture to energize employees give meaning to work minimize work disruption and maximise employee productivity. Be and encourage innovation change agility and collaboration within the team.
• Identify solutions to enhance costeffectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
• Manage financial and other company resources under your control with due.