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Senior Business Analyst

Gallagher
  • Rolling Meadows, Illinois
  • Full-time
1 day ago
Gallagher

Job Description

Introduction:
At Gallagher Bassett, we're there when it matters most because helping people through challenging moments is more than just our job, it’s our purpose. Every day, we help clients navigate complexity, support recovery, and deliver outcomes that make a real difference in people’s lives. It takes empathy, precision, and a strong sense of partnership—and that’s exactly what you’ll find here. We’re a team of fast-paced fixers, empathetic experts, and outcomes drivers — people who care deeply about doing the right thing and doing it well. Whether you're managing claims, supporting clients, or improving processes, you’ll play a vital role in helping businesses and individuals move forward with confidence. Here, you’ll be supported by a culture that values teamwork, encourages curiosity, and celebrates the impact of your work. Because when you’re here, you’re part of something bigger. You’re part of a team that shows up, stands together, and leads with purpose.
How you'll make an impact:

The Senior Business Analyst partners with a variety of technical and functional partners within the business to define requirements for application development, develops required documentation and communicates status in order to ensure business requirements are met.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Defines detailed requirements, analyzes business needs, and validates solutions with the client.
  • Performs feasibility analysis, scopes project, and recommends alternative solutions, project strategy and deliverable prioritization.
  • Serves as senior subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures. Develops high level implementation plans.
  • Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
  • Serves as a liaison between technical and functional stakeholders, and project management teams, to help keep initiatives moving forward smoothly and in accordance with project plans.
  • Participates in multiple key initiatives simultaneously.
  • Guides and advises less-experienced Business Analysts.
  • Monitors other Business Analysts in software development methods and processes, and recommends implementation of those methods.
About you:

Required:

  • Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering or related field  
  • 5 years related experience required including project support  
  • Understanding of budgeting and financial management processes  
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills  
  • Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office 

Preferred:

  • Understanding of MS SQL Server – Data Relationships, Data Modeling
  • Insurance Domain Knowledge (Claim Handling)
  • Azure Dev Ops
  • Formal project management training or certification  
  • Experience with Microsoft Visio and Project

Work Traits:

  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously  
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills  
  • Strong attention to detail

 

Compensation and benefits:

At Gallagher, we believe supporting our colleagues goes far beyond the role itself. For more information, visit our Benefits page.

  • Competitive compensation
  • Comprehensive benefits programs designed to support your well-being 
  • Career development opportunities and ongoing learning 
  • A collaborative, people-first culture with accessible leadership 
  • The opportunity to do meaningful work with global reach and local impact 

At Gallagher, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to join our Talent Community to stay connected to additional career opportunities. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles.

Gallagher is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Numbers & Facts

LocationRolling Meadows, Illinois
Job TypeFull-time
IndustryInsurance
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1927
Websitehttps://www.ajg.com/

About Company

Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, helps clients address risk, protect assets and recover from losses. The products and services we provide keep businesses and institutions running, and enable individuals and families to rebuild their lives. Gallagher is the only insurance broker recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as a World's Most Ethical Company.

Gallagher provides retail and wholesale property and casualty brokerage, alternative risk transfer services, employee benefit consulting, and actuarial services. Gallagher also offers claims and information management, risk control consulting and appraisal services, human resource consulting, and retirement services.

Skills

  • Budgetingunmatched
  • Business Analysisunmatched
  • Claims Managementunmatched
  • Claims Processingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Data Modelingunmatched
  • Detail Orientedunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • Feasibility Analysisunmatched
  • Financial Managementunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • Insuranceunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Microsoft Officeunmatched
  • Microsoft Projectunmatched
  • Microsoft SQL Serverunmatched
  • Microsoft Visiounmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • Multitaskingunmatched
  • Needs Assessmentunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Procedure Developmentunmatched
  • Process Improvementunmatched
  • Project Estimatesunmatched
  • Project Management Certificationunmatched
  • Project Planningunmatched
  • Project/Program Managementunmatched
  • Requirements Managementunmatched
  • Software Developmentunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched

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