Sr Business Analyst
Company: UFG Insurance
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA (Remote)
Salary: $86k - $113.4k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-03-13
About this role
The
Senior Business Analyst
plays a leadership role in analyzing, documenting, and translating complex insurance business requirements into technology solutions that enable enterprise-scale outcomes. This role requires deep knowledge of property & casualty insurance, specialty lines, and reinsurance programs, including regulatory compliance, rating and filing processes, policy lifecycle management, and claims handling. Acting as a bridge between executives, underwriters, actuaries, and technology teams, the Senior Business Analyst drives solution design, mentors' junior analysts, and ensures systems reflect the unique operational and compliance needs of the insurance industry. The analyst must display a strong sense of leadership, urgency, and drive to solve the critical data and process challenges facing UFG.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Lead requirements discovery and documentation across insurance operations, including policy administration, underwriting, claims, billing, and reinsurance.
- Serve as the primary liaison between business units (underwriting, actuarial, claims, reinsurance) and technology delivery teams.
- Analyze state and regulatory filings, specialty product rules, and reinsurance contract terms to translate them into system requirements.
- Evaluate and recommend scope changes, balancing compliance, business value, and operational risk.
- Write and validate SQL queries; analyze structured and unstructured insurance data to support actuarial, underwriting, and claims decisions.
- Mentor junior analysts on insurance processes, regulatory standards, and requirements management best practices.
- Partner with regulatory, compliance, and finance teams to ensure solutions meet external reporting and audit needs.
- Facilitate workshops to align stakeholders on tradeoffs between usability, performance, and compliance.
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT), validate requirements, and ensure solutions align with business rules an...