Business Analyst (SICS Life / Reinsurance)
Hybrid or Remote - depending on location
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with strong Life Reinsurance experience to join a client-focused team delivering complex transformation initiatives. This role will play a key part in bridging business and technology, working closely with stakeholders to analyse requirements, improve processes, and support delivery across critical systems.
A strong preference is given to candidates with experience in system migrations and hands on knowledge of SICS, particularly within Life insurance environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with business stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document detailed requirements
- Translate business needs into clear functional and non-functional specifications
- Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, and process mapping sessions
- Support delivery across the full project lifecycle (discovery through to implementation)
- Collaborate with development, QA, and third party vendors to ensure requirements are understood and delivered effectively
- Analyse current processes and identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation
- Support testing activities, including UAT planning, execution, and defect management
- Assist with data analysis, reconciliation, and validation during system changes or migrations
- Ensure documentation is maintained to a high standard (BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process flows)
Required Experience
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst within Life Reinsurance or Life Insurance
- Strong understanding of reinsurance concepts (e.g. treaties, facultative, policy lifecycle)
- Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with requirements gathering techniques and documentation standards
- Ability to work across multiple workstreams in a fast paced environment
Preferred / Highly Desirable
- Experience working with SICS (SICS Life) as a Business Analyst
- Strong experience delivering system migration projects (e.g. legacy to new platform, data migration, transformation programmes)
- Experience working with or alongside policy administration systems
- Knowledge of data structures, data mapping, and reconciliation processes
- Experience within consulting or client facing environments
- Familiarity with London Market or global reinsurance operations
Technical Skills
- Strong documentation skills (BRDs, user stories, process mapping tools such as Visio or similar)
- Experience working with Jira or similar tools
- Good understanding of data analysis (SQL or similar is advantageous but not essential)
- Experience with testing tools and defect tracking
Personal Attributes
- Proactive, detail oriented, and solutions focused
- Strong problem solving and analytical thinking skills
- Confident communicator with the ability to engage senior stakeholders
- Able to work independently and as part of a cross functional team
- Adaptable and comfortable working in evolving project environments
Why Join Us
- Flexible working model (remote or hybrid depending on location)
- Opportunity to work on high impact transformation programmes within Life Reinsurance
- Collaborative and supportive team environment
- Exposure to global clients and complex delivery landscapes
- Strong focus on professional development and growth