Senior Functional

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

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