Position: Guidewire Business Systems Analyst
Duration: 6 months assignment (contract with possible extension)
Client Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Engagement Model: Professional Services Engagement – B2B (Incorporated Entities Only)
About the Engagement
Akkodis is seeking the services of an experienced Guidewire Business Systems Analyst.
Job Details:
What You Will Do
- Lead requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation for Guidewire PolicyCenter initiatives
- Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, and walkthroughs with business and technology stakeholders
- Translate business needs into clear user stories, business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, data mapping documents, and acceptance criteria/use cases
- Support PolicyCenter enhancements, integrations, cloud migration readiness, remediation activities, and production support initiatives
- Analyze current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps, assess impacts, and recommend practical solutions aligned with business objectives
- Work closely with product owners, development teams, QA, architecture, and business SMEs to ensure requirements are understood and delivered as intended
- Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, and release planning activities
- Assist QA teams with test scenario review, test case validation, UAT coordination, defect triage, and business sign-off activities
- Track risks, issues, dependencies, and requirement changes, ensuring timely escalation and clear communication with stakeholders
- Prepare clear documentation, status updates, presentations, and leadership-ready summaries as required
Who You Are
- 8 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, with a focus on Guidewire-related work for at least 5 years
- Hands-on experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter implementations, enhancements, integrations, or production support
- Strong understanding of property and casualty insurance processes, including policy lifecycle, underwriting, rating, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and related downstream impacts
- Experience creating business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process maps, data mapping documents, and traceability documentation
- Strong experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as JIRA and Confluence
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, developers, QA, architects, vendors, and support teams
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience supporting testing activities, UAT, defect management, and production validation
- Guidewire certification in PolicyCenter or Insurance Suite Analyst preferred
- Experience with Guidewire Cloud implementations, cloud migration readiness, archive/purging, or remediation initiatives preferred
- Knowledge of integrations, APIs, data mapping, payment platforms, document generation, or downstream insurance systems preferred
- Experience with rating, pricing, forms, underwriting rules, transactions, renewals, cancellations, or policy servicing preferred
- Experience preparing executive-level updates, dashboards, delivery summaries, and governance documentation preferred
How to Apply
Submit your resume in confidence to Sam.mehta@akkodisgroup.com or via the Akkodis Canada website.
We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only candidates meeting the above qualifications will be contacted for further discussions.
Accessibility:
At Akkodis, part of The Adecco Group, our purpose is simple: to make the future work for everyone. We live our values, Passion, Collaboration, Inclusion, Courage, and Customers at Heart, by fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated and every voice matters. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Together, we’re making the future work for everyone.
