For over 75 years, Allstate has been helping protect homes, cars and families across the country.

As the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurance company, our success is built on an environment where the talents and contributions of every person are supported, respected and encouraged.

BUSINESS ANALYST - Entry-Level Opportunity

As a Business Analyst - Specialist, you will be responsible for applying business knowledge and communications skills to gather and create business and functional requirements.

This position will initially be based in the Allstate Technology Operations organizaiton within the Distribution, Marketing and Enterprise Application (DMEA) Division. This organization supports the enablement of technology for Allstate business units.

Primary responsibilities include:

Providing business knowledge and expertise in a focused area of the business by developing a keen understanding of business needs.

Partnering with business clients to gather and create business/functional requirements and application functionality.

Creating functional designs and leveraging basic technical skills to address relatively simple business processes, issues or single project requirements.

Assisting with project planning by either contributing or creating project definition documents for less complex projects.

Organizing and leading design review sessions for basic business requirements and issues resolution.

Contributing to detailed deliverables and obtaining requirements documents and functional designs sign-off.

Consulting on function test plan content for assigned applications/projects.

Assisting to gather and develop user and training documentation.

The successful candidate should exhibit the following skills and abilities:

Business Requirements Definition - Demonstrated knowledge of business requirements definition in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Able to analyze business requirements to determine processing flow, testing scenarios and user requirements.

Business Knowledge - Fundamental knowledge of the insurance industry and familiar with competitors.

Business Analysis - Ability to grasp and apply basic analysis concepts and break-down a problem to achieve conclusions.

Change Management - Working knowledge of technical tools to analyze changes, and skills to communicate with internal and external work partners.

Internal Consulting - Understands the basic role of an internal consultant in terms of client relationships and staff interactions.

3 years of experience in a business environment working in the applicaiton of technology.