Accounting Business Systems Analyst

<>Job Title: Accounting Business Systems Analyst 
Location: West Des Moines, IA
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Experience: 8+ Years
Minimum Pay Rate: $44.83/hr
Maximum Pay Rate: $48.15/hr

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Accounting Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to bridge the gap between accounting, finance, insurance operations, and technology teams. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of accounting processes, insurance operations, financial systems, requirements analysis, and system implementation.

The candidate will support business requirements, system integrations, testing, data reconciliation, reporting, controls, and process improvements across accounting and insurance platforms.

Primary Skills

• Accounting Business Analysis,
• Finance & Accounting,
• Insurance Processes,
• General Ledger (GL)
• Sub-ledgers
• Reconciliations
• Requirements Gathering
• SQL
• Insurance Financial Systems

Secondary Skills

• SAP FI/CO,
• Oracle Cloud / Oracle R12,
• NetSuite,
• Guidewire
• Duck Creek
• Advanced Excel
• Power BI
• Tableau
• Data Modeling
• APIs & System Integrations
• UAT / SIT
• Agile
• Reinsurance
• Statutory Reporting
• GAAP
• SOX
• Data Warehousing
• ETL
• Informatica
• Azure Data Factory

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with accounting, finance, and insurance operations teams to gather and document business requirements.
• Analyze insurance workflows including policy administration, premium billing, claims accounting, commissions, and reinsurance settlements.
• Translate business requirements into process maps, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Support implementation, configuration, testing, and enhancement of ERP and insurance platforms.
• Design and validate integrations between policy, billing, claims, and general ledger systems.
• Create and execute unit, SIT, and UAT test plans.
• Manage defect triage, remediation, and change-control activities.
• Build and optimize accounting processes involving premium recognition, reserves, claims payments, commissions, and reinsurance.
• Ensure data completeness, accuracy, and reconciliation across sub-ledgers and the general ledger.
• Develop financial and insurance KPI reporting and dashboards.
• Support statutory, regulatory, and management reporting.
• Assist with internal controls, audit requests, process documentation, and data lineage.
• Facilitate workshops, sprint planning, stakeholder discussions, and cross-functional alignment.
• Create training materials and maintain process documentation, configuration guides, data dictionaries, and SOPs.
• Support continuous improvement and process re-engineering initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in Business Systems Analysis, Accounting, Finance, Insurance, or related areas.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial processes.
• Experience with GL, sub-ledgers, reconciliations, month-end close, revenue recognition, and reserves.
• Strong knowledge of insurance policy lifecycle, billing, claims, reinsurance, and statutory reporting.
• Proficiency in SQL and advanced Excel.
• Experience with data modeling, APIs, integrations, and reporting tools.
• Strong requirements gathering, documentation, and analytical skills.
• Experience with UAT coordination, change management, and defect resolution.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across Accounting, IT, Insurance Operations, Actuarial, Underwriting, Claims, Billing, and Compliance teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP FI/CO, Oracle, NetSuite, Guidewire, or Duck Creek.
• Knowledge of GAAP, Statutory Accounting Principles, SOX, and state insurance regulations.
• Experience with NAIC statements, Schedule P, Schedule F, or similar insurance reporting.
• Knowledge of reinsurance structures including treaty/facultative and proportional/non-proportional arrangements.
• Experience with Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience with data warehouses, ETL, Informatica, or Azure Data Factory.
• Experience supporting large-scale insurance or financial-system transformation initiatives.

Top 3 Required Skills

1. Accounting & Insurance Business Analysis
2. SQL, Data Analysis & Financial Reconciliation
3. Requirements Engineering & Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management