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Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Business Analyst to join our Group Benefit team, who will collaborate with Product/Business Owners, and Developers, to analyze the business need, explore and help to make that solution reality!

Responsibilities

• Using your analytical skills and critical thinking to ask questions, understand business needs, and ultimately bring order and precision to scope of work to be delivered.
• Uncovering and understanding current business processes and conducting workflow analysis and documentation.
• Research business and user problems while working closely with Group Benefits’ business and IT Partners to evaluate and validate proposed solutions for a variety of initiatives such as service quality and/or efficiency enhancements and/or the implementation of new products and technologies.
• Developing and detailing business requirement documents and specifications so that all partners have a clear and consistent understanding of the proposed solution.
• Perform the analytical work to refine requirements such as customer journey mapping, identifying epics/user stories, process mapping, acceptance criteria, decision tables, business rules, and test cases – to convey requirements clearly and accurately and ensure a successful implementation.
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing and identify the issues impacting business.
• Actively participating in an agile environment involving team members with varying degrees of expertise and specialization.
• Adapting quickly to changing priorities and timelines while keeping business needs in focus.
• Lead meetings and present written information to teams and business partners.
• Identify efficiencies within the team with a continual focus on process improvement.

Requirements for this role

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business/Computer Science preferred.
• 3+ years of progressive business analysis experience.
• Must be experienced using SQL
• Solid, hands-on experience in writing business requirements/user stories and test cases
• Understanding of software/digital channel products and related project management/delivery lifecycles.
• Strong organization, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to cultivate relationships with key partners presenting a broad range of functions and levels.
• Robust knowledge MS applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.) is a must.
• Adaptable, flexible, and comfortable working in a fast paced, dynamic business environment with a positive can-do demeanor.
• Agile/SAFe knowledge and JIRA/Confluence experience is an asset.

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
• You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment to you

• Values-first culture
  We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
• Boundless opportunity
  We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
• Continuous innovation
  We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
• Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
• Championing Corporate Citizenship
  We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

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About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife /John Hancock , we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour , ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process . All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies . To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact recruitment@manulife.com .

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Salary range is expected to be between

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact recruitment@manulife.com for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact recruitment@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.