Lead Business Analyst

American Modern Insurance Group, Inc., a Munich Re company, is a widely recognized specialty insurance leader that delivers products and services for residential property – such as manufactured homes and specialty dwellings – and the recreational market, including boats, personal watercraft, classic cars, and more. We provide specialty product solutions that cover what the competition often can’t. We write admitted products in all 50 states and have a premium volume of $2.2 billion.

Headquartered in Amelia, Ohio, and with associates located across the United States, we are part of Munich Re’s Global Specialty Insurance division. Our employees receive boundless opportunity to grow their careers and make a difference every day - all in a flexible environment that helps them succeed both at work and at home.

Purpose:

Provides a critical layer between the Business, Enterprise Data & Analytics, and Information Technology teams with responsibility to gather, analyze, evaluate, and document the business, functional, technical, security, performance, training, and data mapping requirements needed to effectively deliver analytics and reporting.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Strong knowledge in using the appropriate tools and technologies to create and/or provide governance of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documentation needed by various teams (business users, testers, trainers, and applications development teams) to successfully develop and maintain infrastructure and business systems applications.
• Produce and publish the required SDLC artifacts on projects with a moderate degree of complexity and scale.
• Attend kickoff and other project-related meetings with end business users to understand initiative objectives, document results, and capture follow ups, as appropriate.
• Attend and participate in Data Governance meetings while utilizing Data Governance best practices
• Document the “AS IS” and “TO BE” business, and technology processes.
• Assist in the creation of test cases and test data for, and the execution of Unit, Integration, and Usability testing. 
• Support the effort to maintain system documentation, including screen, report, and job execution descriptions, user manuals, operational procedures, application, and job flows.
• Provide status reports according to departmental and project standards.
• Identify continuous process improvement opportunities and operationalize solutions for the same.
• Participate actively in requirement gathering and gap analysis activities.
• Provide support to end business users by answering quick hit questions or directing them to our Product Owners, Analytics Consultants, or Data Product managers.

Required Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of insurance applications and core business functions, or equivalent experience in the financial services, of Property & Casualty Insurance industry.
• Ability to interact with Information Technology and Line of Business management, and when necessary lead the planning and execution of implementations of small to medium complexity projects.
• Knowledge of Data Warehouse/ Business Intelligence and Analytics project lifecycle (SDLC), tools, technologies, testing, and best practices.
• Familiarity of Power BI
• Distributed big-data processing platforms 
• Ability to use the Microsoft Office Suite of tools.
• Knowledge of data gathering using Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Knowledge of information technologies, their uses, and applications.