Manulife
Financial Services
SeniorITBusinessAnalyst
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“Senior IT Business Analyst at Manulife. Skills: Business Analysis, Agile Methodologies, Stakeholder Management, Financial Services. Elicit and model business requirements/user stories. Deliver through Agile methodologies”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver business and IT initiatives; Develop business solutions that deliver value; Determine underlying issues and causes; Align designed and delivered solutions with needs; Ensure requirements deliver business value; Support business objectives and goals; Ensure solutions built meet business and product owner satisfaction; Enable successful adoption of solutions; Ensure high quality outcomes are achieved; Ensure the best Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is achieved; Contribute to change management design and delivery; Identify opportunities to enhance transformation capabilities; Drive consistency and standardization in all work and outputs; Increase the team brand
Industry & Context.
Creative problem-solving skills; Analyze potential value; Recommend solutions; Challenge the business approach; Challenge solution design; Challenge value focus
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Minimum 5-20 years of solid business analysis experience in Financial Services, Experience in building digital products across multiple countries, Practical experience in both Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches, Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, Excellent communications at all business levels, Ability to exercise flexibility and judgment in a dynamic environment, Excellent facilitation and influencing skills, Ability to work effectively across a large organization, Develop cross-functional relationships, Excellent organization and high attention to detail, Ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment and changing priorities, Core business analysis competencies, Interpersonal skills, Constant drive for improvement
Nice to Have
Experience in insurance distribution, operations or digital projects, Experience creating gap analysis documents, Experience creating business cases, People management skills, Recognized experience in leading teams of people, Exposure to and understanding of Agile scrum methodologies, Experience of working in an Agile team, Exposure to Agile project management tools, Exposure to content management tools, PC skills including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Microsoft Visio, A background in software or test engineering
What You'll Do.
Elicit and model business requirements/user stories
Deliver through Agile methodologies
Conduct business process re-engineering
Validate requirements against business objectives
Define business solution options
Analyze potential value and recommend solutions
Focus on the customers
Be involved in development
Facilitate transition and change
Act as a lead in your team
Provide added value to the business
Identify new ways of working
Enhance team maturity
Contribute to the Business Analysis community
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering with country business units; Collaboration across multiple functional teams; Liaison between business and development teams; Facilitating stakeholder collaboration; Work collaboratively with multi-cultural, multi-location teams; Cross-functional working with teams from other business areas; Close working with the project manager; Improve relationships with other teams
Communication Scope
Communications at all business levels
Process & Methodology
Support project delivery, Support project planning
Full Job Description
Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you. The Asia Delivery Services—MITDC team has the mandate to ensure we deliver business and IT initiatives that enable Manulife’s regional strategic vision. We work across the different countries within the Asia region, partnering with country business units to develop business solutions that deliver value to our distributors and customers. We are involved in projects across multi-channel business and technology-based initiatives, and the work will accordingly involve extensive stakeholder management and collaboration across multiple functional teams. As part of this team, and as a business analyst, the incumbent plays a vital part in identifying user requirements and addressing the business issues raised by different stakeholders. The **Senior** **IT Business Analyst** is responsible for eliciting the needs of stakeholders by investigating and clarifying their requests in order to determine underlying issues and causes. They act as the liaison between business and development teams for the purpose of aligning the designed and delivered solutions with the needs of stakeholders. Their activities include understanding enterprise problems and goals, analyzing needs and solutions, devising strategies, driving change, and facilitating stakeholder collaboration. **Position Responsibilities:** * **Elicit and model business requirements/user stories** ; using appropriate analysis techniques, understand and describe the business needs in a structure and level of detail that is usable by the particular stakeholders. * **Deliver through Agile methodologies** ; through experience working with Agile tools (e.g. JIRA), participate in sprints and back
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