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Job Description:
Job purpose - Business Analyst / Subject Matter Expert accountable for analyzing business problems, solving them and developing a prioritized backlog of requirements based on business value
Major accountabilities
- Collaborate with Product Owners and different business stakeholders to understand business challenges, identify user needs to deliver the product vision
- Conduct analysis and drive workshops to define forward looking business requirements and assist in defining product roadmap
- Work closely with both business and technology stakeholders to identify problems, elicit key business needs and create a prioritized backlog of requirements based on business value.
- Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into user stories and with clear acceptance criteria for development within agile teams.
- Collaborate with UX and UI teams to ensure the usability needs are met and requirements are reflected appropriately
- Supplement business requirements as needed with business process flows, data mapping and gap analysis
- Verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility and conformity to standards
- Work closely with technical development teams to provide functional inputs for system impact analysis and clarify questions as needed
- Work closely within the Agile development teams to ensure development of the backlog items prioritized for the sprint.
- Own a section of the backlog of requirements and act as the SME and bridge between business and technology.
- Contribute as a functional expert in a defined Insurance domain/business area as part of business competency centre
- Assist in performing market analysis and benchmarking on key business areas to understand gap compared to competition on business focus areas
- Assist in user on-boarding to product with documentation and user training as needed
Skills & Experience required
- University Graduate and above
- Ability to speak in business and technology terms, as well as the ability to effectively communicate both internally and externally
- Must possess good problem-solving skills for large complicated and broad issues and able to work independently, with keen attention to details
- Must be able to break problems down, analyze data, drill into problem statements, ask the right questions to really understand root causes and then solution around issue to drive business value.
- 6+ years’ experience in sizable IT projects or large organizations acting in the capacity of a Business Analyst
- Min 5 years of experience in Insurance industry with proven experience as Business, Functional SME or Product Owner or Business Analyst
- Experience in client digital journey and/or advisor digital journey would be required
- Sound knowledge of insurance products, channels, customer behaviors and technology
- Experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle, and with a broad range of platforms, including transitioning from legacy systems to digital.
- Able to work in a complex environment with a mix of technologies and different levels of IT maturities across multiple business unit.
- Experience in Agile and Agile Toolsets (JIRA, Confluence) would be an advantage
- Ability to work in Waterfall, Hybrid or Agile approaches as per project needs
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and inter-personnel skills
- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills with stakeholders
- Proficient in both spoken & written English and Chinese
Job Category:
IT - Digital Development
Posting End Date:
30/12/2025
What We Do
Nashville, Tennessee-based Bridgestone Americas, Inc. is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, a global leader providing sustainable mobility and advanced solutions. Bridgestone develops, manufactures and markets a diverse portfolio of original equipment and replacement tires, tire-centric solutions, mobility solutions and other rubber-associated and diversified products that deliver social and customer value. These best-in-class offerings are sold to consumers and fleet customers around the world under the trusted Bridgestone and Firestone brand names.
With more than 50 production facilities and 55,000 employees, the Bridgestone Americas enterprise spans from Canada to Argentina. Business units of Bridgestone Americas include Bridgestone Retail Operations, the world’s largest network of company-owned retail tire and automotive service centers; Bandag, a leader in commercial tire retreading worldwide; Firestone Building Products, an industry leader in commercial roofing and building solutions; and Firestone Industrial Products, a leading provider of technologically advanced air springs for commercial and passenger vehicle applications.
Across all its businesses, Bridgestone is dedicated to shaping a sustainable future. Guided by its global corporate social responsibility commitment, Our Way to Serve, the company strives to improve the way people around the world move, live, work and play in every aspect of its business.
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