afarax - Senior Functional / Business Analyst

afarax is looking for a freelance Senior Functional / Business Analyst. We need you!

The project

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

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

• 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

• 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