Thursday, August 13, 2009

[itroundtable] FW: Business Analyst Manager w/Insurance Co Exp position - Hartford, CT with Travelers

 

Please reply directly to Ruthie Powell [ruthiep at bellsouth dot net]
and mention that I sent you.  You Insurance folks may want to Invite
her to join your LinkedIn network.
Ann Bergquist

 
From: ruthiep@bellsouth.net
To: AnnBer@hotmail.com
Subject: Business Analyst Manager w/Insurance Co Exp position - Hartford, CT with Travelers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:02:58 -0400

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Business Analyst Manager with Insurance Co. exp.

Background in the Information Services field, focusing in Systems Analysis and Design, Project Management, Account Management, Application Development and Technical Support arenas.

Extensive background working with high-performance infrastructures servicing Fortune 500 customers in the P&C insurance, banking, and financial industries and organizations. 

Business Analyst Manager
        

·        Team Lead for Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Mart business requirements and application design deliverables.

·        Involved in enterprise level projects from a warehousing and data delivery perspective.

·        Manage a team of Business/System Analysts that participate in enterprise initiatives and deliver functionality and data to business partners.

·        Coordinate priorities between resources for new development, business support, data quality issues and production support.

·        Involved in the design, testing and implementation phases for a new Guaranteed Cost Projection Module that provided the Underwriting business unit with an automated tool for experience based rate renewal projections.  The tool integrated claim experience, current rates, membership levels, geographical statistics and pricing models to automate and standardize the renewal process for Guaranteed Cost products.

·        Develop Stop Loss system enhancements to satisfy compliance with Sarbane-Oxley regulations.  Create requirements and assist with the design of financial audit and control processes for data inputs and outputs.  Involved in the design of new Oracle General Ledger structure and interface created to meet Sarbane-Oxley requirements.

·        Business Analyst Lead for Stop Loss  stabilization project that focused on system enhancements based on business requirements for functionality, quality and efficiency improvements.

·        Involved in the definition of new Stop Loss IT organization to align with the new CIGNA IT organization changes.  Included new organization structure, role definitions, process flow definitions and integration of off-shore component.

·        Develop design for an Aggregate Stop Loss automated system based on existing manual process and aligned with future business strategies.  Created a design and conceptual architecture to provide an enterprise-integrated automated system to provide operational and reporting functionality.  Included core business processes and strategic product enhancements in the design to enable the company to meet future business goals.

·        Assist Customer Reporting application area to ensure critical system enhancements to incorporate Traditional Insurance product lines were designed properly to meet requirements and installed into the production environment successfully.

·        Involved as part of a temporary SWAT team brought in to meet critical client reporting deadlines that were deferred from previous releases.

·        Impacted reporting included membership data, premium data, claim experience data for the Traditional Insurance products that are distributed through web portals to clients.

·        Responsible for developing system designs to support business requirements for the enterprise data warehouse project that integrates THE INSURANCE COMPANY information for analytical reporting and decision support in the financial, underwriting, customer reporting and utilization areas.

·        Work with data architects, data modelers and developers during the design phase of the warehouse to ensure data model meets requirements and remains flexible for future warehouse source feeds.

·        Communicate warehouse design milestones and designs with end user community.

·        Mitigate end user issues and concerns by continually improving designs and data structures.

·        Gain understanding of the following INSURANCE COMPANY systems and functionality within the organization:

·        Central Eligibility Database

·        Client Database

·        Insurance Accounts Receivable and Billing System

·        Rate Capture

·        Claim Systems

·        Stop Loss

·        Case Management

·        Involved in design of data marts used for reporting and decision support in Healthplan and Consolidated Financial Operation areas within the insurance company.

·        Provide Management  to Business Analyst team responsible for designing the Data Warehouse and Data Mart deliverables.

·        Involved in the planning and startup phase of small company including:  business plan development, office space procurement and design, office equipment including phone system, desktops and servers, software applications.

·        Successfully negotiated and secured clients and deliverables which enabled initial profitability for the company.

·        Provided customized application software development services, database design and integration services, systems integration, consulting services and strategic assessments to customers, business partners, and external service providers.

·        Evaluated emerging business and technology trends in order to provide value to clients and to drive successful information technology deployment within organizations.

·        Included as member of  senior management team.



Other areas of expertise:

Technical Knowledge

Insurance Business Knowledge & Partnership

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Team Orientation

Leadership

Planning and Project Management

Financial Awareness

Human Resource Management


I would love to forward your credentials to the next level, but in order to do so...
I must have either your current salary or your minimum BASE salary figure (not counting annual bonus or other benefits).

** Where do you live NOW and is your location commutable to Hartford, Connecticut?  If not, we are not able to provide relocation assistance – are you willing to relocate yourself?

 

Also, write back with the following:

SUBMIT the number of years of experience /brief explanation of that specific experience in each of the following:

  • Experience in IT
  • PMI Certification (how long?)     
  • Experience as a Manager of Business Analysts (how many? How long? Where?)  

·       Experience as Project Manager

·       Experience as PROGRAM Manager       

·       Experience in a PMO capacity

·       Experience working in property & casualty (or other) insurance companies

·       Experience working with Transformation/Change Management (give 2 examples)

·       Experience with Process Improvement (give 2 examples)

·       Managerial experience (largest number supervised and where)       

·       Experience managing off-shore consulting resources (largest # supervised & where)

·       Root Cause Analysis

·       Budgeting (largest budget managed by you and where)

·       Previous experience with a Big 4 (which ones? how long?)

·       Six Sigma experience         

·       Methodologies  (Agile or others)

Ruthie Powell, Senior Sourcing Specialist for  Travelers Insurance

http://www.travelers.com/

 

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Send me an invitation for Linkedin.com to join my network.  http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthiepowell - I have over 8,000 1st Level Connections!

 
Travelers has been recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the most admired companies to work for, ranking 2nd amongst all property casualty insurers in 2009.
 
Travelers was recently ranked Top Property & Casualty Company in BusinessWeek's Best Places to Launch a Career Survey!
 

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