Senior Functional / Business Analyst - afarax H/F/X

Founded in 2010, afarax is your trusted B2B partner specialized in IT consulting and staffing. Our mission is to identify, attract and place top professionals in positions where they can thrive. We aim to help our consultants and clients succeed by shaping the future of their careers and the growth of their businesses. Our expertise : - Strategy & IT Governance - IT Security - Data Analytics & BI - Project Management - Software Development - Digital Marketing - Infrastructure
afarax is looking for a freelance  Senior Functional / Business Analyst.  We need you!

The project:
Our client in the Insurance sector, is seeking an  experienced Functional / Business Analyst.

Main responsibilities:

• 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.
• Analyse business processes, user needs, application behaviour 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.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous team improvement.
• Communicate progress, decisions, risks and functional issues clearly to all relevant stakeholders.

Is this you?
Required Experience and Expertise

• 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.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• 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.

How afarax supports you?

• You benefit from our extensive network
• You will have access to projects that fit your expertise
• We help and support you throughout your project
• We offer the possibility to build a valuable and lasting partnership

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Compétences linguistiques

• Anglais (atout)

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• Français (atout)

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• Néérlandais (atout)

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  • Lire : Indépendant - (B1)
  • Parler : Indépendant - (B1)