Principal Accountabilities:  - The candidate has to be BE (IT) and a full time MBA from a premium Institute. The opening is with a leading Life Insurance company and is based out of Mumbai.  Act as technology evangelist:  - Main purpose is to ensure company is ahead of completion and abreast with latest technology innovations.   - Scan completion landscape for technology or solutions that can be adapted in company scenario.   - Understand emerging technologies and solutions used across other industries that could add value in Company landscape.   - Pro-actively build a business case, influence stakeholders and validate the concept using prototype etc.   - Contribute to the overall technology-business solutions roadmap and have an active plan to meet the same  Projects Initiation Management:  - Involvement with the user team to finalise on the concept note, business case-benefits and approvals as per the policies and guidelines.   - On approval, prepare a project charter, draft plan and present detail of cost, time and scope to the appropriate authority (steering committee/governance body/function heads – IT and project sponsor) for approval.   - Organise all resources necessary to start the project on time.   - Organise a formal kick off meeting to present the approved project charter, project details, project team with their roles and responsibilities, project risk assessment etc to the governance body.   - Evaluate and recommend the buy-build decisions. (Where required – this could be a sub-project within an overall project).  Manage BAU projects - Scope, delivery, timeline and cost management:  Ensure Requirement gathering - Manage the Project Lead\Business analyst team to:  - Gather and analyse user requirements.  - Ensure completeness in gathering. This will require pro-actively getting into the shoes user and understanding all process aspects.  - Ability to think out o the box and make solutions that are simple, controlled and sustainable.  - Integrate user needs with current process and well and alignment with future changes.  - Creating the Functional Specification Document.  - Sign off on the FSD.  - Evaluate the requirements with the development team to arrive at gaps.  - Publish gap document and related customisation/development efforts along-with any cost-time impacts.  - Seek approval on the gaps.  - Manage development as per the timelines.  - Escalate any issues during BRS and development impacting the  UAT management: Oversee the activities of Test Lead to ensure:  - End users are educated on importance of UAT.  - Assistance is provided to the user team to develop test plans.  - Co-ordination with the user group.  - Documentation of UAT.  - Sign-off on UAT from the business group.  Overall responsibility:  - Manage the project as per approved budgets.  - Manage the project as per the approved plan and timelines.  - Deliver a robust, scalable and workable systems solution that meets the project scope.  - Submit periodic project progress reports to project governing body.  - Continuously track project against milestones and escalate any slip ups likely to impact project.  - Regularly Organise and conduct project team meetings to discuss plan, progress, issues etc.  - Take responsibility and decide on key areas impacting the project (Subject to governing body authorisation).  - Categorise projects and decide on the project priority based on the business needs.  Effectively manage the Closure phase of the projects assigned - Close the project by:  - Moving the approved UAT to production.  - Handing over the relevant areas to end user.  - Monitoring the user issues and ensuring systems stability in production.  - Ensure appropriate DR and back up measures are in place.  - Close the project in a formal meeting of the governing body with a sign off from all stakeholders.  Vendor Management: This will include:   - Selection: Preparation of RFI, Preparation of RFP, Evaluation of RFP's, Short listing of vendors, Recommend the final vendors to program manager - appropriate authority for selection.  - Management: Information on new technology/research purposes, Knowledge sharing, Information for prospective projects  Ensure application support is provided to all users with an aim to enhance customer satisfaction:  - Train and educate users to ensure optimal systems usage.  - Constantly manage and review system performance to ensure that the system is able to meet its deliverables as per TAT.

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Sr Manager - Senior Business Analyst - Insurance 

Sr Manager - Senior Business Analyst - Insurance  ,Job Description for Sr Manager - Senior Business Analyst - Insurance  in Delverve HR in  Mumbai for (5-7) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Sr Manager - Senior Business Analyst - Insurance  in Delverve HR in  Mumbai for (5-7) years of experience. Apply Now!