Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst - 200003KJ


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Our Opportunity

If you have a high client-centricity and the ability to quickly understand the customer’s needs, prefer to work with different stakeholders and make new solutions run; then this is your next career opportunity.


Zurich’s global Investment Management business with about 650 people in 23 countries has the vision, expertise and passion for defining the future role that data plays for us. The “Business Solution Design” team within “Investment Solutions” is looking for several new colleagues (3 vacancies remain open) who will add value in the end-to-end journey from analyzing needs, creating and testing solutions up to handover of project changes into production.


Your Role

As a Senior Business Analyst your main responsibilities will involve:


- Develop, update and review functional and non-functional specifications for new processes and systems
- Perform gap-analysis and feasibility
- Gather business requirements and together with the BSD Team translate them into functional design
- Support the setup of the test concept and the test preparation
- Conduct functional testing
- Conduct the “User Acceptance Testing” to sign-off the new changes before promoting them into production systems
- Provide & organize necessary user trainings
- Work location can be Zurich or Barcelona with up to 10% travel


Your Skills and Experience


As a Senior Business Analyst your skills and qualifications will ideally include:


- University Degree and professional certification in accounting with deep understanding of IFRS and local GAAP
- Good Accounting skills (IFRS knowledge, especially IAS 39 and IFRS9)
- Minimum 5 years of investment accounting experience in the finance industry
- Minimum 3 years of work experience with any investment application/solution
- Good knowledge about finance and investment instruments
- Good knowledge of SAP-FSCM and knowledge of SAP BW-reporting
- Knowledge of investment administration and accounting processes
- Proven ability to lead and work with multi-cultural project teams and facilitating work shops
- Strong communication skills in written and spoken English
- Strong business analyst skills (e.g. analytical skills, requirement engineering)
- Good test management skills
- Project management and BA methodology
- MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- MS Project, MS ACCESS (nice to have)


Additional Information


Your talent acquisition specialist Chris Parkinson is looking forward to receiving your application by clicking on the button “Apply online” below.

Zurich wants to attract the best talent and we acknowledge that talents might not always be available full-time. At Zurich we will consider requests for flexible working. Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of ways. Please talk to us during the interview about the flexibility you may need.


Who we are

Looking for a challenging and inspiring work environment where you can make a difference? At Zurich millions of individuals and businesses place their trust in our products and services every day. Our 55,000 employees worldwide form the basis of our success, enabling, businesses and communities to face a world of risk with confidence. Imagine if you could help people do this all over the world. You’d give them confidence and reassurance by protecting what they love most. It’s a big challenge, but you will be supported by a world-class team who believe in helping you to reach your full potential and deliver on our promises.


We are already on our way and we are changing the way we do insurance. In order to do so we need people with talent, willing to learn and a lot of passion! Want to Join Us?


“ZURICH, 13 consecutive years being considered as top employer”


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zurich Insurance has the policy to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to attract and retain the best qualified individuals available, without regard to criteria such as race/ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.


Primary Location
: Spain-Catalonia-Barcelona

Schedule
: Full-time

Travel
: No
Job Posting
: 06/02/20