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Business Analyst, Germany
- DepartmentProduct Strategy
- LocationGermany - Remote
- Location TypeRemote
As an Industry Analyst at Guidewire, your responsibilities will include:
- Providing context and perspective to the Product Managers designing and prioritizing enhancements to our products.
- Research of insurance industry questions, including interpretation and summarization of insurance manuals, regulatory filings, and publications from professional organizations or regulatory bodies.
- Being the insurance expert who can help customers, prospective customers, engineering, sales, and other groups with questions.
- Eliciting, analyzing, specifying, and validating the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
- Collaborating with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
- Proposing solutions for representing German Commercial Lines and P&C Insurance content in Guidewire products, and identifies and communicates platform gaps where they exist.
- Participating in Guidewire events as SME.
Desired skills/experience:
- 5+ years of experience on the Commercial Lines Insurance and the P&C insurance industry side.
- 3+ years of experience on the IT side of the insurance industry.
- Working knowledge of German Commercial Lines and P&C Insurance Insurance
- Technical capacity - you should feel comfortable with XML and be able to communicate with the engineering team on tactical technical decisions is a plus.
- Familiarity with Insurance modeling.
- Familiarity with modern, rules-based, configurable software applications.
- Ability to translate high level requirements into detailed product specifications.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
- Good decision-making and analytical skills.
- Ability to excel in a team-oriented environment. Experience with agile software development is a plus.
- A real passion for Insurance, software systems and problem solving.
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
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FINANCIAL
Receive market-competitive pay and incentive programs—because you deserve it! To help future-proof your income, we offer generous support through retirement savings plans.
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Keep your physical and emotional health in tip-top shape with health insurance for you and your family, an employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, and access to wellness resources.
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DOWNTIME
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