Business Project Lead Analyst - HIH - Evernorth

Cigna Investment Management (CIM) has overall responsibility for the over $30 billion of invested assets for Cigna's Insurance Portfolios and the Cigna Pension Plans.  Cigna is a leading global health services and insurance provider and Fortune 15 company whose invested assets include public and private corporate bonds, commercial mortgages, private corporate mezzanine debt and equity, real estate equity, public equity and short-term investments.

Investment Management Operations - Business Project Lead Analyst
 

Position Summary:

The Business Project Analyst is responsible for helping support the CIM PMO and business areas in the identification of key data elements across the business, identification of sources, enabling the connection across sources and ultimately supporting the consumption model of this data.  This individual will work with business users, technology, accounting and finance to develop requirements and support delivery of consumable data for business insights.

Job Description & Responsibilities:

The Business Project Analyst partners with the CIM PMO and workstream owner structure.   Key stakeholder partners will be Finance, Accounting, Technical Teams and Automation and AI teams. 

• Collaborate with Workstream Lead to support requirements identification, documentation and communication to technical partners.
• Support design conversations to support technical and functional requirements.
• Support review of functional design and technical design documentation as needed
• Support the identification of testing scenarios and correlated test scripts.
• Support the generation of training materials with the use of content creation technologies
• Provide support as an early tester of capabilities
• Engage with stakeholders to support requirements gathering and understanding.
• Support driving project deliverables on time, on budget with quality results
• Continuous improvement in the identification of opportunities for process improvement or process enhancements in day-to-day execution
• Familiarity with burn down chart development/management and field mapping
• UAT Plan development and execution.  Assistance with test scenarios
• Assistance with defects for end-to-end testing

Competencies / Skills:

• Ability to review deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards.
• Strong business acumen including ability to effectively articulate business objectives.
• Analytical skills, Highly Focused, Team player, Versatile, Resourceful
• Ability to learn and apply quickly including ability to effectively impart knowledge to others.
• Precise communication skills, including an ability to project clarity and precision in verbal and written communication and strong presentation skills.
• Requirements gathering

Experience Required:

• Experience: 5 to 8 years in business or systems analysis, including writing business specifications, technical design documents and solution overviews 
• Technical Skills: Familiarity with tools like Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Alteryx, Dataiku, JIRA
• Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, SDLC, and Waterfall are commonly used frameworks 
• Documentation: Proficiency in creating BRDs, FRDs, SRS, UAT plans, and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) is essential

Preferred Attributes

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills 
• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines independently 
• Strategic and tactical thinking for high-level design reviews 
• Experience in field mapping, defect management, and regression testing

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