afarax is looking for a freelance Senior Functional / Business Analyst. We need you!
The project
Our client in the Insurance sector, is seeking an experienced Functional / Business Analyst.
Main responsibilities
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand, clarify and challenge their needs
- Translate business needs into complete, precise and structured functional requirements for IT implementation teams
- Analyse business processes, user needs, application behaviour and system dependencies
- Produce functional analyses, requirements, process flows, user stories and acceptance criteria
- Understand the existing application landscape and how front-end and back-end components interact
- Identify interfaces, dependencies, data flows and potential impacts across connected applications
- Ensure that functional requirements are aligned with the existing solution architecture
- Facilitate alignment between business stakeholders, Product Owners, architects, analysts and development teams
- Prepare test scenarios and test cases to validate delivered solutions
- Support test execution, defect clarification and functional validation when required
- Ensure traceability between business requirements, functional specifications and delivered functionality
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous team improvement
- Communicate progress, decisions, risks and functional issues clearly to all relevant stakeholders
Is this you?
Required experience and expertise:
- At least seven years of experience as a Functional Analyst, Business Analyst or IT Business Analyst
- Strong experience in insurance business analysis
- Good understanding of insurance products, processes and operational environments
- Proven experience translating business needs into detailed functional requirements
- Strong stakeholder-management and negotiation capabilities
- Experience working with complex application landscapes
- Good understanding of front-end and back-end architecture, system integration and application dependencies
- Ability to understand how application components, interfaces and data flows are interconnected
- Experience preparing and supporting functional testing, User Acceptance Testing and solution validation
- Strong analytical and structured mindset, with particular attention to accuracy and completeness
- Experience working in large, multidisciplinary Agile teams
- Ability to collaborate with Business Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Functional Analysts, Solution Architects and front-end and back-end developers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Team-oriented, pragmatic and comfortable working with diverse stakeholders
- Leadership mindset and ability to facilitate alignment without direct authority
Languages
- English: Fluent or strong professional proficiency; primary language for communication with development teams
- French: Fluent or strong professional proficiency; required for communication with business stakeholders, Product Owners and internal colleagues
- Dutch: Passive understanding is mandatory
How afarax supports you?
- You benefit from our extensive network
- You will have access to projects that fit your expertise
- We help and support you throughout your project
- We offer the possibility to build a valuable and lasting partnership
