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Manisha Madhu

Sydney,NSW

Summary

  • 16+ years of experience in BA/Functional P&C and Duck Creek along with its downstream applications.
  • Extensive experience in implementing medium to large modernization projects and products including Duck Creek (Policy, Billing and Forms) for global insurance carriers.
  • Multitasker with ample skill set in delivering multiple projects across the Insurance Value Chain ( Application definition , Customer Management, Underwriting, Claims, and Reinsurance).
  • Expert in handling Insurance and Reinsurance business from Underwriting and pricing standpoint for US and UK insurance market .
  • Delivered projects in P&C Insurance (Commercial and Personal lines), HR and Finance domain and life insurance domain. Cross Geographical work experience with teams based out of USA, UK, European Countries, Honk Kong, Malaysia and India.
  • Core Competency - Requirement gathering, documentation, sprint planning, project delivery plan, resource management etc.
  • Expert in customer liaising across all capabilities ( Underwriting, Claims, Actuarial, Consulting, Finance, Policy Servicing etc.) and technology teams.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Functional Business Analyst

COFORGE
06.2024 - Current

Responsibility: Requirement Gathering, Solution Designing & Documentation, Stakeholder Management, Fit Gap Analysis, Change Management and Communication, Testing and Validation

Project: Duck Creek (Forms and Communication) MDA National Insurance.

Contribution:

  • Leading the integration of SmartComm and Duck Creek for end to end automation of policyholder comms and document generation, ensuring seamless communication channels between core systems and external platforms.
  • Work closely with stakeholders and cross functional teams to gather requirements, define use cases and create comprehensive solutions for communication management.
  • Work with business for designing and developing communication templates using SmartComm to support various policy and billing related documents including reminders and follow-ups.
  • Performed testing and troubleshooting for SmartComm and Duck Creek systems, ensuring seamless communication between PAS and external platform.

Business Analyst Manager

Xceedance
01.2020 - 06.2024

Responsibility : Project Management, Requirement Gathering, Delivery Plan and Timeline Management, Resourcing, Task Management.

Projects: Duck Creek BHSI, Duck Creek Hollard, Bordereau Automation Tool, Submission System, Camunda BPMN, CRM Modernization, Building Valuation Tool, Workflow Management

Contribution :

  • Duck Creek product handling for Australia and US customers.
  • Handled Duck Creek Policy as well as Billing Modules.
  • Managing implementations in areas of Policy Admin System , Headless implementation , Unified Front end, General Liability LOB, Project scoping, Integration with Underwriting bench, Fit gap analysis , Assumptions and Estimation
  • Experience in preparing RFPs, RFIs for new clients. Working on the Discovery Phase of new businesses.
  • Requirement gathering , managing, and documenting business/functional requirements, gap and impact analysis, stakeholder communication and establishing functional checkpoints.
  • Regular client interaction to understand the expectation from a requirement perspective
  • Creation of mapping document for Duck Creek downstream Data Integration projects.
  • Working closely with technical team' and architects for solution/technical design – ensure business objective is achieved in technical design.

Lead Business Analyst

Xceedance
01.2018 - 12.2019

Responsibility: Project Management, Requirement Gathering, Delivery Plan and Timeline Management, Resourcing, Task Management


Projects: International Reservation System (IRS), Data Warehouse (EDW), CRM, AP Integration with Duck Creek


Contribution:

  • Preparation of project plan and tracking all the backlog items.
  • Responsible for getting estimation done for all requirements, provide story points to all user stories and perform the sprint planning accordingly.
  • Responsible to do all the research work to understand the generic expectation from an application during initiation of the project.
  • Analysis as-is and to-be state of the functionality and perform Gap analysis.
  • Preparation of various requirement documents like wireframes/proto-types, flow charts, BRDs, FSDs etc. as per CMMI level 5 standard.
  • Work as a functional architect to provide solutions and clarity requirements of a stakeholder

Assistant Lead Business Analyst

Xceedance
01.2017 - 12.2017

Responsibility: Requirement gathering, Delivery Plan execution, Analysis, Status update, Walkthroughs


Projects: HRMS, Workline HR, Master Data Management (MDM), Workflow Management System (WFMS)


Contribution:


  • Responsible for conducting multiple requirements gathering sessions to facilitate all change requests and enhancements.
  • Preparation of BRD, FSD, RTM, Sprints, user stories etc.
  • Backlog handling in TFS and Work with the team to determine story points and complete sprint planning.
  • Perform all agile events in the project.
  • Responsible for providing timelines and estimations for each requirement with collaboration with dev team.
  • Responsible for all client communication for status update, query resolution and clarifications

Senior Business Analyst

Xceedance
06.2015 - 12.2016

Responsibility: Requirement gathering, Documentation, Test cases review and execution Sanity, Status Update


Projects: Reinsurance Tool, Open Data Source (ODS), Reservation System


Contribution:


  • Ensured to provide project's status update on a regular basis and provide demo to clients on all new functionalities
  • Requirement gathering , documentation, regular connect with the stakeholders.
  • Co-ordinate with development, architect and testing team to ensure smooth delivery of the project.
  • Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD ), System Requirement Specifications ( SRS), Requirement Traceability Matrix ( RTM ).

Senior Business Analyst

Computer Science Corporation, CSC
08.2013 - 05.2015

Responsibility: Requirement gathering, Gap Analysis, Documentation, Product Walkthroughs, Test cases review and execution, Sanity


Projects: DHFL Pramerica, AIA-Hong Kong, India First Life, Aviva India


Contribution:

  • Produce detailed business and functional/non-functional requirement specifications from initial requirements
  • Part of BAFO discussion to understand and analyse client's requirement and identity in-scope & out of scope items on the basis of Integral Life base functionality.
  • Relate new business requirements/rules to current work processes and identify gaps under Gap Analysis .
  • Having good client facing skills and the ability to work/communicate with internal and external clients to develop and interpret business requirements.
  • Well verged with Life Asia/ AS400 system/ Genius and Opus system for Life, Group and General Insurance.
  • Preparing and reviewing BRD and getting the User sign off on all BRDs before starting any development.


Senior Underwriting Assistant - Team Lead

Torus Insurance
06.2010 - 07.2013

Responsibility: Process Manuals, SOPs, Capacity Utilization record, Policy Life cycle processing , Endorsement and claims management , US and UK Insurance and Reinsurance business


Projects: Property and Casualty Insurance and Reinsurance


Contribution:

  • Underwriting support to handle US and UK Insurance and Reinsurance business with endorsement handling.
  • Responsible to handle all complex RI endorsement for Property Insurance.
  • Set Service Level Agreement (SLA) for all tasks and then review them after every six months.
  • Expertise in transitioning new business from Onshore

Process Associate

Xchanging Technologies
07.2008 - 06.2010

Responsibility: Audit Processing, Claims, Reconciliation, MIS Reporting


Projects: Lloyd's Insurance and Reinsurance


Contribution:

  • Responsible for audit of Xchanging Transaction Process Business supporting Lloyds side of claims business, and reconciliation of financials, i.e. Reserves, settlements of indemnity and fees of ECF.
  • Responsible for taking action on all insurance claims for sending it to the next level under Awaiting action activity (LIRMA)

Education

MBA - Finance

Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, India
03-2006

Bachelor of Arts - Economics (Hons)

Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, India
03-2004

Skills

  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team handling
  • BA Center of Excellence
  • Project Management
  • Requirement elicitation
  • Expert in Insurance & RI business
  • Agile Methodology
  • DevOps (TFS)

Certification

  • Duck Creek “ BA Policy and Billing
Certified”
  • ITIL® V4 Foundation Certificate

· CSPO® - Scrum Alliance

  • Associate in General Insurance (AINS®) - The Institutes (AINS 21, 22, 23 and Business Ethics)
  • Underwriting 360 from The Institute
  • Licentiate in Insurance (LIII) from Insurance Institute of India (I.I.I)
  • Agile Scrum Master Foundation Course - Simplilearn®
  • SCRUM Fundamental Certified - SCRUM Study®
  • Business Analyst: Project Management Techniques and Tools

Timeline

Functional Business Analyst

COFORGE
06.2024 - Current

Business Analyst Manager

Xceedance
01.2020 - 06.2024

Lead Business Analyst

Xceedance
01.2018 - 12.2019

Assistant Lead Business Analyst

Xceedance
01.2017 - 12.2017

Senior Business Analyst

Xceedance
06.2015 - 12.2016

Senior Business Analyst

Computer Science Corporation, CSC
08.2013 - 05.2015

Senior Underwriting Assistant - Team Lead

Torus Insurance
06.2010 - 07.2013

Process Associate

Xchanging Technologies
07.2008 - 06.2010

MBA - Finance

Banaras Hindu University

Bachelor of Arts - Economics (Hons)

Banaras Hindu University
Manisha Madhu