Manulife

Financial Services

SeniorITBusinessAnalyst

Philippines FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“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.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

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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