Lead Business Analyst / Project Coordinator (Reinsurance)

Location: Hybrid job (8-12 days per month on site) in New York City

Position Type: 6-12+ month project

Position Overview

Are you a senior-level insurance professional who thrives at the intersection of strategic project leadership and hands-on business analysis? We are seeking an autonomous, forward-thinking Lead Business Analyst / Project Coordinator to play a pivotal role in a major, global Reinsurance Modernization Program.

This is not a traditional requirements-gathering role. Instead, it is a unique 50/50 hybrid position that blends:

• 50% Project & Reporting Leadership: Autonomously managing workstreams, driving coordination, tracking project milestones, and delivering critical status updates directly to executive sponsors and global leadership teams.
• 50% Senior Business Analysis: Facilitating stakeholder interviews, requirements elicitation, process documentation, and visual process mapping.

The ideal candidate operates closer to a Lead BA, Project Coordinator, or Junior Project Manager (without the formal project management ownership), and possesses deep, foundational expertise within Reinsurance operations.

Primary Responsibilities

Leadership & Project Coordination (50%)

• Workstream Ownership: Lead specific project workstreams, ensuring the team successfully delivers against established project timelines and plans.
• Meeting Representation: Represent the project team at critical cross-functional meetings, including Quarterly PI Planning, Fortnightly Scrum of Scrums, and Monthly Working Groups.
• Project Status Reporting: Actively track progress and manage project risks and escalations. Provide regular, high-visibility status updates, reporting dashboards, and presentations directly to sponsors and executive leadership.
• Backlog & Metrics Management: Oversee the inventory of requirements, managing prioritization, and tracking clear metrics and delivery progress utilizing JIRA.
• Transition & Training: Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), query resolution, and user training sessions, ensuring a seamless future handover to Business As Usual (BAU) support teams and business users.

Senior Business Analysis (50%)

• Requirements Elicitation: Conduct interviews and workshops to elicit, analyze, and document comprehensive functional and technical requirements from senior-level internal and external stakeholders.
• Process Mapping: Develop clear visual process maps and "As-Is / To-Be" business workflow documentation.
• Technical Liaison: Translate complex business rules and requests into actionable requirements for the development and technical teams, ensuring alignment between business needs and end delivery.
• Quality & Control: Ensure draft reports and system modifications are thoroughly analyzed, designed, and tested prior to user validation, maintaining rigid version control across all project documentation.

Job RequirementsMandatory Qualifications

• Reinsurance Expertise: Proven experience working as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, or Project Lead directly within Reinsurance operations, workflows, systems, or modernization programs. This is the primary non-negotiable requirement.
• Property & Casualty (P&C) Familiarity: Solid working knowledge or background handling Property & Casualty insurance projects.
• Senior Business Analysis Acumen: 5+ years of dedicated experience in requirements elicitation, process documentation, and bridging the gap between business lines and IT teams.
• Proven Project Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading project workstreams, tracking milestones, managing stakeholder expectations, and delivering concise updates to executive sponsors.
• Technical Proficiency: Highly organized and proficient with JIRA and MS Office Applications (Excel, Word, and highly professional PowerPoint capabilities).

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience or familiarity with the Duck Creek platform.
• Experience using Power BI for tracking and building project management reporting dashboards.

Pay: $60.00 - $80.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Are you currently within an hour commute to New York, and willing to commute to an office 8 to 12 days a month for this hybrid position?

Experience:

• Reinsurance: 2 years (Required)
• Business Analysis / Product Ownership: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10004