Senior Business Analyst

Summary

Are you a Japanese insurance industry professional? Do you have deep knowledge of Japanese claims and/or policy processes and implementing those processes in enterprise insurance systems? Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to be part of the development of Guidewire in Japan by adding business value in our software? Do you want to join a Company who offers you well being at work and career development perspectives? Then join us at Guidewire Software and help set the direction for the next generation of Japanese insurance solutions.

Our insurance industry analysts are our insurance experts within the product management team and more widely, one of the subject matter experts in your market. Your primary responsibility is to explain and represent the Japanese insurance industry to the product development organisation.

Your background will be in Japanese insurance, policy and/or claims, with roles at insurers, brokers, software vendors, business consultant, underwriter or others within the insurance vertical. Maybe you’ve been an underwriter or underwriting manager, claims manager, a business analyst, or a product manager. You will have a high degree of comfort with technology, and exceptional analytical and communications skills. You will also be comfortable both engaging in product design discussions with developers and presenting to prospective customers.

Because of our strong commitment to quality across the development team, you will also support the creation, execution and validation of robust functional and integration test cases that truly reflect how our customers would exercise our solutions.

Job Description

As a Business Analyst at Guidewire, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing context and perspective to the Product Owners and the Product Managers designing and prioritizing enhancements to our products.

• Research of insurance industry questions, including interpretation and summarization of insurance manuals, and publications from professional organisations or regulatory bodies.

• Helping implementation teams to understand and interpret the requirements provided by insurers.

• Being the insurance expert who can help customers, prospective customers, engineering, QA, support, sales, and other groups with questions.

• Eliciting, analysing, specifying, and validating the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.

• Collaborating with sponsors to determine feature scope and vision.

• Proposing solutions for representing Japanese content in Guidewire products, and identifying and communicating platform gaps where they exist.

• Creating sample policies, claims and other relevant data and validating test results to support application feature design.

• Acting as a subject matter expert on their line(s) of business for customers implementing Japanese local content.

• Documenting known issues and workaround for release notes.

• Participating in Guidewire events as a subject matter expert.

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

• Showing an interest in leveraging new technologies, tools and methods to boost efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making when defining business requirements.

Must have Skills and Experiences:

• 5+ years of experience in the Japanese general insurance industry.

• 3+ years of experience on the IT side of the general insurance industry working as a subject matter expert or business analyst on a Japanese insurance implementation project.  

• Subject matter expertise in Japanese property and casualty insurance.

• Technical capacity - you should feel comfortable with non-code technical artefacts that describe application configuration and be able to communicate with the engineering team on tactical technical decisions. 

• Familiarity with Insurance modelling.

• Familiarity with modern, rules-based, configurable software applications.

• Ability to translate high level requirements into detailed product specifications.

• Ability to manage complex initiatives with limited supervision.

• Ability to take care of issues directly, firmly, and on time

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.

• Good decision-making and analytical skills.

• Ability to excel in a team-oriented environment. Experience with agile software development is a plus.

• A real passion for Insurance, software systems and problem solving.

• Familiarity with one or more applications from Guidewire InsuranceSuite is desirable 

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as using data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Other requirements:

• Proficiency and Japanese, spoken and written, is required for this role. Company communications are in English

• Must have the right to live and work in Japan

• Willingness and availability to travel part of the time as needed

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.