BA, Reinsurance Messaging

Stellar Consulting Solutions is a boutique business & technology consulting company headquartered in Atlanta, GA. We deliver high quality, agile, and experienced workforce for niche technology projects of any scale. We help forward thinking clients to solve specific problems by understanding their needs and align talent that can move fluidly to match skill supply and demand on a real-time basis. Stellar Consulting has a unique combination of technical and digital skills to recruit, engage, and retain qualified talent. We have a stellar reputation for striving to achieve high ethical standards. Our use of Innovative techniques and industry best practices has made us one of the fastest growing boutique firms delivering to enterprise business. We have an excellent Job Opportunity with one of the BA, Reinsurance Messaging with one of our Direct Client, if you are available and interested, please share your updated resume and let me know the best time to speak to you. ROLE TITLE : BA, Reinsurance Messaging ROLE LOCATION(S) :Conshohocken, PA; Florham Park, NJ; Purchase, NY; Manhattan, NY; Charlotte, NC; Nashville, TN; Offshore also acceptable DURATION : 6+ Moths Lead the design and implementation of a reinsurance transaction messaging application to enable automated processing of placement, technical account, and financial account messages in Sompo International systems. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct requirements definition for Reinsurance System Messaging solution. Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand their business requirements, informational needs, and data sources. Translate these business needs into clearly defined and documented detailed business requirements/ functional requirements inclusive of business use cases, process flows, data flows, traceability matrices as well as report mock-ups.
• Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements elicitation sessions, meetings, and presentations.
• Lead review sessions for completed business/functional requirements with key business users focused on gaining consensus and final business approval.
• Participate in the development of User Acceptance Test planning documentation, including test plans and scripts, based on business and functional requirements.
• Facilitate UAT execution phase and work with business stakeholders and project manager to obtain user acceptance test signoff.

• 8+ years of proven experience in business analysis including defining Insurance business, functional and reporting requirements and conducting user acceptance testing for business-critical solutions in complex environments.
• Insurance/Reinsurance industry experience and knowledge with an understanding of the terminology, business functions (UW, System Messaging, Claims, Finance, Actuarial) and business processes.
• Detailed System Messaging processing knowledge and experience. Good Understanding of ACORD messaging standard (TA, FA, CM messages) and the concepts of Straight Through Processing (STP).
• Experience in Functional and Product artifacts (User Stories, BRD, FRD, Release Notes, User Manual)
• Experienced with formal SDLCs and business analysis methodologies.
• Working knowledge of business analysis documentation standards.

• Experience using standard project tools including Visio, Excel and PowerPoint, SharePoint.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Must have experience working with various organizational units with a proven track record of working with IT and Business.
• Broad multi-disciplinary information technology familiarity with proven systems deployment experience.
• Must have experience with any System Messaging management system for reinsurance. SAP MSG or any other reinsurance system experience is a plus.
• Agile Methodology experience a plus.
• Working knowledge of Guidewire platform, a plus.
• Experience with Data Migration a plus.

• B.A / B.S degree
• Industry knowledge of System Messaging processing for the Insurance and Reinsurance markets.
• Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) a plus but not required.
• Experience with tools like Web Connectivity, MSG. XDi is a plus.