Sr BSA

Description

Business Systems Analyst (BSA) - Finance Modernization & Data Overview The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) has strong Finance Operations and Data experience, preferably in global Property & Casualty Insurance. In this role, a BSA serves as a critical bridge between finance stakeholders and technology teams to translate business needs into clear system requirements by probing to understand 'What is the problem we are trying to solve?'.

The BSA facilitates conversations between finance stakeholders and technology teams to drive clarity into the desired future state as well as alignment and understanding of the Acceptance Criteria for the defined deliverables. They also ensure that all requirements and related decisions and assumptions are clearly documented, understood, and agreed to by all impacted parties.

Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business stakeholders (including, but not limited to Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Actuarial, and Audit) to drive understanding of business processes as defined by the Finance Modernization program, with the understanding that most core financial needs will be addressed by a Systems Integrator. These include, but are not limited to: o Budgeting, forecasting, and planning o General ledger and sub‑ledger accounting o Financial close and consolidation o Billing, revenue recognition, and expense management
- Define and manage financial data requirements, such as: o Reporting, including ad hoc analytics and dashboards. o Integrations between core financial systems and external data sources as required to maintain existing reporting and analytics as well as support desired additions.

- Elicit, document, and validate functional and non‑functional requirements. Work across teams to resolved conflicts of understanding in any of these areas.

- Analyze and derive findings, identify impacts, and formulate ideas, options, and recommended actions.

- Utilizes strong consultative and collaborative approach in working with internal business partners to anticipate and address needs; effectively translates business questions or needs into solution and associated requirements.

- Assist in development of Features to describe Soft Skills
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

- Ability to lead with empathy, influence without authority, and drive accountability.

- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) including story telling from data.

- Experience working with employees, vendors and offshore teams. Agile & Scrum Expertise

- Experience with Jira (or equivalent) and backlog management. Data & Technical Acumen
- Familiarity with data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), ETL pipelines, cloud infrastructure.

- Understanding of data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.

- Experience working with data privacy, compliance, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA). Behavioral Competencies
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Customer Focus
- Decision Quality
- Nimble Learning
- Builds Effective Teams
- Business Insight
- Develops Talent
- Ensures Accountability
- Manages Complexity Technical Skills
- Strategic Mindset
- Business Acumen
- Business Requirement Gathering
- Jira
- Feature development and maintenance
- Data Analysis and Synthesis (nice to have) - Data Visualization (nice to have)

Skills

Business analysis, Requirements gathering, Financial Experience, Global experience, Financial Terminology, Jira, Data Knowledge, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Strong Soft Skills, Stakeholder management, Project management, Sql

Top Skills Details

Business analysis,Requirements gathering,Financial Experience,Global experience,Financial Terminology,Jira,Data Knowledge,User Stories,Acceptance Criteria,Strong Soft Skills,Stakeholder management

Additional

Skills & Qualifications

The best candidate will be on-site at the Westfield Home Office with the Finance Modernization teams on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. They can work remotely on Mondays and Fridays with the understanding that they will be onsite occasionally as the…