IT Business Analyst

Place of work
Mlynské nivy 12, Bratislava
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
Minimum salary from 1200 EUR gross/month/full time and other rewards. Our offer to you may be higher based on your experience.*

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

About the Role

Your job will include :
Business support and production control
• Monitoring and maintenance of interfaces, including error handling.
• Error handling includes analysis, solution proposals and correction processes
• Perform and coordinate data clean ups and migrations
• Perform database updates and enhancement (mappings, functions, interfaces)
• Perform System reconciliation and data quality checks
• Support the quarterly closing by executing special processes
• Provide consultancy to business users

Business analysis of new requirements for new IT implementations and change request for existing IT-solutions
• Gather, discuss and analyse the requirements for new attributes, interfaces or functions in close cooperation with business experts and IT
• Translate requirements into system specifications, covering all aspects of the new solution
• Work closely with the programmers in the realisation phase and ensure correct understanding and implementation of business requirements
• Perform and document interface and application tests
• Document the solution, both for internal and external use
• Manage assigned sub-task in above-mentioned fields independently
• Perform system testing in regular UAT cycles

About the Team

In this role you will support a unit responsible for the maintenance, enhancement and rollout of our Reinsurance Financial Data Store for Life & Health, which acts as an integration layer and connects the reinsurance contract management systems, technical accounting systems with the accounts payables/receivables modules, the general ledger and the closing and actuarial engines. You are willing to grow into an important role in the business analysis team for our Financial Data Store. You will be part of a team that has members in Zurich and Bratislava with significant interaction with Zurich, US, UK, India and Bratislava finance & IT colleagues. You will work in projects but also support production. The project work will focus on the data integration, design and development of new database attributes, interfaces, functions, as well as the support and monitoring of data migration processes and the data reconciliation. On the production side the main tasks will be to support the quarterly closing with special processes and to secure the daily data processing and error handling.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

• University degree in business administration with specialization in information technology or equivalent
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good command of English
• Very good knowledge of MS Office
• Knowledge of SQL is a strong asset for this position
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence would be an asset
• Experience as a business analyst would be an asset
• Experience in insurance/reinsurance would be an asset
• Previous knowledge in technical or financial accounting would be an asset
• Good communication skills
• Flexible and open for new tasks, willing to learn permanently
• Self starter, independent and responsive in character and work
• Stamina and the drive to get things done
• Excellent team player attributes combined with a proactive approach and a 'can do' attitude

We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. We carefully consider your professional competencies, qualifications and experience in our compensation package and/or when offering you other positions. Our compensation philosophy is to pay fairly, also considering market situation and the value employees may bring to Swiss Re.

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Lucia Vargova

ID: 2656614  Posting date: 8.1.2019  Basic wage component (gross) and other rewards: Minimum salary from 1200 EUR gross/month/full time and other rewards. Our offer to you may be higher based on your experience.*