My client is a well-known company y active in the insurance sector and based in the center of Brussels

Within their Non-Life insurance department, my client plans and executes a number of projects and enhancements on its application portfolio which consists of:
• an existing backend system managing contracts and claims, mainframe based
• a new frontend for brokers and internal users to manage the full life cycle of a contract, .NET based applications
• a series of new applications to support claim notification and the management of external parties (inspectors, experts, lawyers, …), .NET based

Given the constant evolving broker insurance market on one hand and the internal evolution to implement process excellence on the other, a number of important changes to this application portfolio are required. Next to this, the current applications need to be maintained and evolve to follow market standards.
Over the last years, this company has implemented a methodology to support the full life cycle of a project. Some years ago, development activities have been outsourced and are now located off-shore. Key activities in functional analysis and design on one hand and integration and UAT remains onsite

In order to further strengthen this team, iStorm is currently looking for a Functional analyst/designer.

The candidate will be assigned to a team responsible for the broker frontend application. This team covers major and minor changes to the application and includes:
- the IT Application owner who manages the application and maintains the overall coherence (maintenance and projects)
- the IT Business analysts, who analyze new requirements and transform these into a functional design.

He/she
- reviews and details business requirements and maps these to application impacts (.NET-Mainframe)
- creates functional designs, mainly using UML – Enterprise Architect
- ensures coherence of the functional designs cross application (frontend and backend)
- coordinates with the technical designers on site and off-shore
- prepares and executes application tests
- supports user acceptance tests
- analyses incidents in production and hands these over to the development teams

The ideal candidate has a university degree (e.g. economics, commercial engineer, civil engineer, IT …) or equivalent based on relevant experience.
He/she has relevant experience (around 5 years) in functional analysis, design and application testing.
As an alternative, the candidate has strong experience in technical design and wants to move towards a functional designer role.
Any relevant experience in the financial industry (banking/insurance) is appreciated.
Candidate has a good basis of English and is fluent in French and Dutch.
He/she should have a combination of qualities:
- good listener and at the same time challenging the input (from Business, from development teams, …)
- well structured in his/her work
- takes care of the details
- has strong affinity to IT, although the candidate will not be developing applications
- be creative and pro-active
- take a step back and identify opportunities for improvement
- has an interest to learn gradually the insurance industry and the applications required to support current and future needs
- knowledge of Cobol or C# is a ‘plus’

A salary in line with your experience (up to 4500€)
Fringe extralegal advantages