Functional Business Analyst

• 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
• Analyze business processes, user needs, application behavior, 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
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous team improvement
• Communicate progress, decisions, risks, and functional issues clearly to all relevant stakeholders

What they ask

• 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

• 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