Posted 112 months ago
Business Analyst with Insurance Background
@ Avance Consulting Services
Waterloo, Ontario
Overview
Avance Consulting Services is hiring a contract Business Analyst with an insurance background in Waterloo, Ontario, for a full-life-cycle DW/BI project. The role gathers requirements from business users and documents data sources, flows and solutions for both business partners and IT. Candidates must be Canadian citizens, U.S. citizens or green card holders.
Responsibilities:
- Gather requirements and engage business users
- Document data sources and data flows
- Provide BA support to BI projects
- Work with QA to meet business requirements
- Design solutions with team members
Requirements summary:
- BA experience on full life-cycle DW/BI project
- BI BA experience in the London Market
- Knowledge of commercial insurance and reinsurance
- Degree educated
- Working knowledge of SQL and Microsoft BI stack
- Agile working experience
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · smartrecruiters
- Employer posting date
- 2017-08-29
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Data & analytics |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
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Avance Consulting Services
| Field | Value |
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| Open jobs on Jobsy | 3 |
Company Description
About Company:
A Global IT consulting firm with several large customer
engagements across Europe and US. It provides strategic business
consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to
help clients leverage technology and create impactful and
measurable business value for every IT investment.
About Us:
Avance Consulting Services is a global talent acquisition and
executive search company. We work exclusively with some of the
most reputed and admired clients across various sectors and
geographies.
Job Description
Hello,
Hope you are doing good.
Position : Business Analyst with Insurance BackgroundLocation : Waterloo, OntarioDuration : ContractLooking for USC/GC/TNPH/CANADIAN CITIZENS
Principal Responsibilities
·Engaging with existing and prospective users to understand and
document their information needs predicated on an understanding
of both business processes and the business decisions that users
need to make
·Provide BA support to BI projects to enable them to meet their
deadlines
·Working with IT colleagues to understand and document available
data sources and their interrelation
·Collaborating with other team members to design solutions
·Collaborating with other team members to develop strong
reconciliation and control processes
·Working with quality assurance to ensure that business
requirements are met
·Responsible for partnering with business and user group
representatives to understand business decisions and the related
reporting and analysis needs
·Requirements gathering, user interviews, running workshops,
prototyping
·Document requirements in a format that is intelligible to both
business partners and IT colleagues
·Analyse and document available data sources and data flows to
standards and in a consistent manner
·Collaborate with colleagues in designing solutions that meet
the established business needs
Experience & Qualifications
Experience of fulfilling a BA role in the full life-cycle of a
DW/BI project
Experience of working as a BI BA within the London Market
A thoroughgoing knowledge of the commercial Insurance and
reinsurance industry
Degree educated
Demonstrable understanding of the collateral factors that lead
to success in DW/BI projects, including user engagement,
prototyping, MDM, data quality and educational approach
Experience of working collaboratively in an agile manner
Technical Skills
·Working knowledge of SQL, data analysis, reporting and
modelling tools
·Working knowledge of SQL Server and the associated Microsoft BI
stack, including MDS and DQS desirable
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Additional Information
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