Bowhead Specialty is a best-in-class insurance operation targeting US specialty lines with highly experienced leadership and backed by respected capital partners. We provide risk evaluation and related services for professional liability coverages including Directors & Officers, Management Liability, Errors & Omissions, Casualty and Healthcare lines. Our company is dynamic and growing. We encourage those who join us to be active participants in building our future. Position Summary Bowhead Specialty is seeking an experienced Business Analyst with Property & Casualty (P&C) Claims knowledge, excellent business analysis and requirements-writing skills, and hands-on SQL reporting and Power BI dashboard development experience.
This is a Business Analyst position, not a Data Analyst role. The primary focus is Claims business processes, system enhancements, and requirements delivery. SQL reporting and dashboard development are important supporting capabilities.
Key Responsibilities - Lead business requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation for Claims system enhancements and related initiatives.
- Develop comprehensive Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for waterfall projects and well-structured Agile user stories with clear, detailed, and testable acceptance criteria.
- Apply Claims domain knowledge to understand business processes, identify gaps, challenge assumptions, and recommend practical solutions.
- Proactively identify business rules, dependencies, exceptions, and edge cases to ensure requirements are accurate, complete, and development-ready.
- Independently write SQL queries to retrieve information, investigate issues, and produce operational reports.
- Design, develop, and maintain professional, intuitive, and user-friendly Power BI dashboards.
- Maintain a working understanding of downstream systems, integrations, and basic data testing.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, QA, and vendors throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Support UAT, defect resolution, and implementation activities.
- Take ownership of deliverables, anticipate issues, and proactively drive work forward while maintaining clear communication with management.
Required Qualifications
- 5–10 years of Business Analyst experience within the Property & Casualty insurance industry.
- Demonstrated proficiency in requirements gathering, business analysis, and documentation, including experience producing waterfall BRDs and Agile user stories.
- Hands-on SQL experience, with the ability to independently develop queries and business reports.
- Practical Power BI experience, including independently creating and maintaining business-facing dashboards.
- Experience supporting Claims system implementations, enhancements, and testing.
- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, and Agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Excellent communication, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Attention to detail, accountability, and the ability to take initiative and deliver quality work without repeated direction or follow-up.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Guidewire InsuranceNow.
- Experience in Specialty or Excess & Surplus (E&S) insurance.
Comp $120k - $145k based on experience, plus bonus
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