Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Description & Summary

PwC has recently launched the South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC). SATIC is designed to innovate, build and deploy for our global clients across a range of technology and transformational solutions.

PwC's ambition to grow through acquisitions and development of new innovative ways to serve clients, mandatory firm rotation, the ongoing climate of regulatory change, and the increased focus on globalisation all mean that PwC's ability to maintain Independence from our audit clients is evermore business critical for PwC.

The Guidewire team has a vital role to play in enabling PwC's growth, whilst protecting our reputation and brand, and the team will be at the heart of change in the firm over the next few years.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.

About the Role

We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Guidewire/Insurance team. As a Guidewire Business Analyst you will be responsible for participating in business requirements review meetings and working with the Product Owner to
ensure that requirements for Guidewire projects are captured as user stories that are prioritised and in a ready state. Ready means that stories must be immediately actionable. The development team must be able to determine what needs to be done and the amount of work required to complete the story.

What will you do?

● Bridge the gap between the business and technical teams, by working closely with the Product Owner to define and communicate the vision and scope for the product or project.
● Work with the Product Owner to stock the product or project backlog to ensure that it represents the overall scope of the project.
● Work with the Product Owner on a continuous basis to refine the backlog, by organising/ prioritising stories, splitting epics into stories that can be delivered within a sprint, and by getting selected stories into a ready state by capturing detailed user requirements before sprint planning.
● Participate in quality assurance activities, including working with the Test Analyst to establish proper test coverage and traceability to requirements, and with the Product Owner to demonstrate developed functionality, and assist with user acceptance testing.
● Work with Test Analyst to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing
● Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective
● Participate in POC to support new opportunities.
● Guide and mentor junior Business Analysts.
● Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes.

What are we looking for?

● Candidate should have Guidewire Property & Casualty insurance product (PC, BC or CC) business analysis experience.
● Working experience in at least one of the Guidewire InsuranceSuite products
(PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter or Digital Portal) from a functional perspective.
● Experience in writing business requirements and user stories.
● Experience with test methodologies, and assisting the Test Analyst in ensuring that delivery meets business requirements.
● Experience in Requirement and Ticket Management tools like Jira and Confluence.
● Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes is essential.

● Strong verbal and written communication skills.

What is nice to have?

● Business Analysis Certification (IIBA Certified Business Analyst)
● Prior client facing experience
● Azure/AWS Cloud experience
● Guidewire Business Analysis Certification on current solutions

What’s in it for you?

We're exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. As a PwC employee you will be included on our specific Operate training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations.

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various others as part of your employment.

• Flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family &;s) needs.

 

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

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