Senior Business Analyst, Sikich
Insurance Accounting
Offers bonus
Technology-enabled professional services
Open for applications
Technology-enabled professional services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Offers bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide insights and transformative services to help strengthen every dimension of a business.
Role
Who you are
- 3–5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst within accounting, insurance, or financial services
- Strong understanding of accounting principles; insurance accounting experience is a big plus
- Hands-on experience with financial systems, insurance platforms, policy administration, or billing/payment systems
- A proven track record of gathering, documenting, and communicating complex business and system requirements
- Familiarity with Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies
- Comfort working directly with CFO’s and senior accounting leadership to define operational needs
- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Smartsheet, or similar workflow/documentation tools
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
- Values driven – You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation
- Uncompromising problem solver – You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions
- Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
- Instills trust – You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly
- Impact & influence – You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives
What the job involves
- You’ll collaborate directly with client accounting teams including Controllers, Finance Directors, and CFOs to unlock requirements, optimize processes, and translate business needs into powerful system functionality. You’ll be at the heart of helping insurance organizations modernize how they operate across accounting, billing, payments, and financial reporting
- Engage directly with accounting stakeholders across all levels, including CFO’s, to elicit and validate insurance and operating accounting requirements
- Translate complex business and accounting needs into clear user stories, functional specifications, and process flows
- Support implementations and enhancements for ConceptOne, Sure MGA, and related insurance accounting, billing, and financial platforms
- Partner closely with technical teams across the full SDLC: design, development, testing, and deployment
- Analyze current-state workflows and identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and operational excellence
- Support data validation, reconciliation activities, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, training meetings, and stakeholder discussions
- Ensure solutions align with accounting standards, regulatory needs, and client-specific business rules
- Contribute to client documentation, training, and knowledge transfer
- Other duties as assigned
Our take
Sikich is a global firm specializing in technology-enabled professional services. Offering a vast variety of CPA services from audit and assurance to cybersecurity. Its customer base has grown dramatically since founding in 1982 and it now hosts a diverse roster of clients.
Looking to consistently address it's clients business challenges and opportunities, the company has been recognized over the years, notably as a Best of the Best Firm by Inside Public Accounting. It has also has experienced significant revenue growth and completed several strategic acquisitions.
The recent addition of CLA's federal government practice to this roster strengthens Sikich's position in government services, and expands its footprint in critical markets such as Washington, DC. Looking forward, with recent funding and the launch of its AI solutions studio, the company is poised to continue its growth trajectory.
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Company
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Christopher Geier
(CEO & Chairman)Previously the Founder and CEO of GEI Capital & Advisor, and a Member of the Board Of Directors for Barrington 220 School District.
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