Zinnia - Business Analyst III - Project Methodologies (4-6 yrs)

Who We Are :

Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

Who You Are :

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of projects. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, implementing process improvements, managing risks, and ensuring that projects meet customer expectations in terms of budget, quality, and timelines. You will work with senior stakeholders to facilitate decision-making, lead business analysis activities, and continuously improve processes within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

What Youll Do :

- Lead the initial project scope and analysis activities.

- Lead/Facilitate detailed Solution Definition meetings, ensuring track meetings are well defined and address the necessary material to drive to a holistic solution.

- Facilitate solution planning sessions to ensure efficient use of time with take-aways for internal alignment if necessary.

- Incorporate knowledge of the existing client implementation and business offerings as

consideration of impact and alignment when driving scoping sessions.

- Act as the voice of the customer to translate the business objective into an approach

prescribed by Zinnia.

- Ensure solutions for each client adhere to the Zinnia IT framework, architectural strategic

direction and support the clients business objective.

- Provide thought equity to identify new and innovative business analysis tools and techniques

in response to business needs.

- Assist other Capability areas in identifying scope changes and facilitating the dissemination of information to the appropriate Delivery Team.

- Support the movement of internal and external project requests through the estimation

process.

- Assist with training program and associated documentation to support knowledge

repositories.

What Youll Need :

- Bachelors degree in computer information systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

- 4-6 years in business and / or systems analysis or related experience preferred.

- Knowledge and experience working in the insurance industry and company framework.

- Strong knowledge and practice of the techniques necessary to manage the activities related to planning and requirements/analysis phases of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

- Hands-on leader who knows the day-to-day aspects of tasks well enough to offer clear direction to team members.

- Outlook/Word//Excel/PowerPoint experience, with knowledge of Project Management tools.

- Proficiency in Jira for task and project tracking, managing sprint cycles, and reporting.

- Strong project management skills.

- Strong Relationship Building skills.

- Strong analytical skills.

- Excellent oral/written communications skills and relationship management skills.

- Ability to work as part of a cross-functional, global team.