Senior Life Insurance Business Consultant

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Title:

Senior Life Insurance Business Consultant
Category:
Business Analysis (functional and technical)
City:
New York City, New York, United States

CGI is a global IT and business consulting services firm delivering end-to-end services across strategy, systems integration, and managed services. With thousands of professionals worldwide, CGI partners with clients to drive measurable outcomes through innovation, deep industry expertise, and a collaborative, client-focused culture.

We are seeking a Senior Life Insurance Business Analyst with deep expertise across the life insurance value chain to support strategic transformation initiatives. This role requires a strong blend of operational knowledge and consulting capability, with direct experience working alongside Life Insurance Operations teams to assess, design, and optimize business processes.

• Engage with senior stakeholders to define future-state capabilities and drive business-aligned transformation roadmaps.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of current-state life insurance business operations across multiple functional areas.
• Facilitate workshops with operations leaders and executives to identify business challenges and transformation opportunities.
• Document and analyze end-to-end business processes, identifying inefficiencies and improvement areas.
• Define and articulate future-state business capabilities aligned with strategic objectives.
• Develop high-level business capability roadmaps in partnership with technology and IT leadership.
• Translate complex operational concepts into clear, executive-ready deliverables and presentations.
• Create conceptual models and visualizations of current and future state processes beyond standard documentation.
• Provide subject matter expertise across life insurance domains including underwriting, servicing, and claims.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in life insurance business analysis, consulting, or operations, including exposure to multiple life insurance organizations, and hands‑on expertise across several core domains such as distribution, underwriting, servicing, agent management, and claims.
• Direct experience working with Life Insurance Operations teams, not solely IT-focused roles.
• Demonstrated expertise in at least three areas: distribution, new business/underwriting, in‑force servicing, agent management, or claims.
• Proven ability to lead facilitated sessions with senior stakeholders including executive leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and present at CEO/COO level.
• Experience developing business capability models and transformation roadmaps.
• Ability to create conceptual and strategic representations of business processes.
• Experience working across multiple life insurance carriers or organizations.

• Background in internal consulting teams within large life insurance carriers.
• Experience in operations leadership roles within life insurers or third‑party administrators.
• Consulting experience with global or boutique professional services firms.
• Familiarity with third‑party administrators such as Illumifin, EXL, DXC, NTT Data, or TCS.

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $90,000 - $188,100.

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well‑being programs

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial…