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MUNIREDDY KRISHNAREDDY

MUNIREDDY KRISHNAREDDY

CRAWLEY,UNITED KINGDOM

Summary

Experienced Senior Business Analyst with 14+ years of experience in the Insurance domain, specializing in Digital transformation, stakeholder collaboration, co-ordination with cross-functional teams and Project Planning.

Proven expertise in delivering end-to-end IT and business change projects, collaborating with Architects and technical teams with a focus on developing Underwriting Platforms, Broker platforms, Documents management, regulatory change management, pricing modelling, integration with RADAR and pricing validation for Insurance products, Data Analysis, System migration and user cantered solutions.

Adept at working across Life and General Insurance (P&C, Financial Lines, Multinational, A&H Insurance (Group Personal Accident, Business Travel & Driver Personal Accident Insurance)) and Reinsurance (FAC, Captive and Treaty RI) verticals across multiple Lines of Businesses

Leveraged expertise in requirements gathering/Analysis, API/Configuration Data mapping /management /migration, and coordination of UAT to ensure project success.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior business analyst

CHUBB Insurance (EMEA)
Crawley, United Kingdom
01.2020 - Current

To replace Legacy mainframe UW and Admin systems with new web-based Underwriting Platform for CHUBB A&H Insurance (Group Personal Accident, Driver Personal Accident & Business Travel Insurance Products) also Integration of Broker Platforms & Migration of corresponding policies to new system

  • As Senior Business Analyst, led implementation of web-based Accident & Health underwriting platform , successfully gathering requirements, Configuration/reference data and migration of 40,000+ policies from legacy mainframe systems (Genius).
  • Led rollout of underwriting platform across EMEA (19 countries), improving efficiency by 25% and reducing errors in policy issuance.
  • Configuration and attachment/Integration of Treaty Reinsurance at A&H Portfolio level.
  • Mapping of Input/Output fields for Pricing Models for RADAR Pricing Tool with Underwriting platforms and validation of pricing for Policies
  • Extracting Rating Factors for Insurance products from existing local Excel raters with help of Actuaries and underwriters, streamlining rating process across EMEA countries, defining Rating process/calculation rating models, convert pricing factors in format required by RADAR team to configure Rating Models in RADAR
  • Gained sign off on rating models from Actuarial and Underwriting teams and coordinated rollout of pricing models with RADAR for 19 EMEA countries
  • Coordinated with Business to define UAT scenarios, test data creation, Pricing output validation of RADAR with local raters/client In-house raters
  • Gathering requirements for Quote and Policy Pack/Documents, mapping of fields in documents with UW Platforms
  • Managed cross-functional teams for data, policy, Documents Migration (xPression and Quadient Document Generations Tools/systems) and application migrations as part of large-scale digital transformation initiative.
  • Coordinated comprehensive SIT/UAT, reviewing SIT scenarios & preparation of UAT scenarios, in meeting user requirements and expectations.
  • Managed Integrations with Underwriting applications with Broker/Customer facing platforms with Azure Services Managing team of 3+ Business Analyst and UAT testers.
  • Training Business Users (Underwriters, Brokers, and Operations teams) on UW platform and Broker Platforms along with upstream and downstream systems
  • Mentored junior analysts, fostering skill development and promoting best practices in business analysis methodologies.

Business analyst

CHUBB Insurance (EMEA, APAC & LATAM)
Crawley, United Kingdom
08.2012 - 01.2020

The program's objective was to replace Legacy mainframe UW and Admin systems with a new web-based Underwriting Platform for CHUBB P&C, Financial Lines (D&O, E&O, PI, Cyber, ML & FI Insurance) and Multinational (Inward/Outward) Insurance and Migration of corresponding policies to new UW platform.

  • As a Business Analyst, led Business workshops, requirements gathering and migration for Property & Casualty and Financial Lines Underwriting systems, transitioning from mainframe legacy systems to modern web-based applications.
  • Enhanced global rollout processes (39 Countries include key APAC, EMEA and LATAM countries), reducing deployment time by 20% through streamlined workflows and targeted stakeholder training.
  • Involved in complex Multinational Policies requirements analysis, which includes MN Outward/Producing Policies (Master/producing Country, Freedom of Service, Non-Admitted Permitted Countries), Locally Admitted Policies and MN Inward/Service Office Policies (with both Affiliated and Non-Affiliated companies
  • Creation and attachment of FAC Reinsurance at Policy level for P&C Policies, attachment of Captive Reinsurance for Multinational P&C Policies
  • Mapping of Input/Output fields for Property &Casualty Pricing Models (RADAR), validation of pricing and CAT Modelling for Property Policies
  • Gathering requirements for Quote and Policy Pack/Documents and mapping of fields with UW Platform
  • UW Platform Property Survey mapping requirements to integrate Survey system (Eureka 2)
  • Conducted comprehensive SIT/UAT, preparing /reviewing SIT/UAT scenarios in meeting user requirements and expectations.
  • Training Business Users (Underwriters and Operations teams) on UW platforms along with upstream and downstream systems
  • Performed gap analysis between existing systems or processes and desired state, identifying areas for improvement or enhancement.

Programmer analyst

Hartford Insurance (USA)
Chennai, India
12.2010 - 08.2012

The objective was to replace Legacy mainframe UW and Admin systems with a new web-based Underwriting Platform for Hartford Retirement Portfolio – Corporate & Government Plans and Migration of corresponding policies to new UW platform.

  • As an Analyst, contributed to digital transformation of Life Insurance policy administration systems, including regulatory compliance requirements for retirement plans/Policies (401k & 408b).
  • Analysed system requirements and translated them into functional specifications for development teams.
  • Collaborated with developers to eliminate 99% of software bugs during deployment of new product lines, including lifetime income insurance products.
  • Coordinated with Business on preparation and execution of UAT scenarios, change management, production issue root cause analysis and provided workarounds to Business to ensure Business continuity.
  • Implemented data migration strategies ensuring accuracy during system upgrades and transitions.

Education

Bachelor Of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

SJC Institute of Technology - VTU
Karnataka India
08.2006 - 05.2010

Skills

Primary Expertise:

  • Life Insurance, Commercial Insurance & Reinsurance domains expertise
  • Digital transformation of Underwriting & Broker Platform
  • Requirements gathering / User Story/BRD creation & Product configuration data management
  • Gap Analysis & Policy/Data Migration
  • Document Management and field mapping
  • Pricing modelling, integration with RADAR and validation of pricing for policies
  • User Journey, Target Operating Models
  • System Analysis, Process development/Mapping
  • COTS Product Implementation
  • Regulatory, MI Reporting & Change Management
  • User Training, Product Management & UAT Coordination
  • Agile and Waterfall delivery methods

Technology & Tools:

  • IBM DB2, SQL
  • Java, HP ALM, Visio
  • JIRA, Confluence
  • Advanced Excel, Power BI
  • Azure, BizTalk, NET
  • RADAR, Gherkin
  • xPression, Quadient

Certification

  • CII – LM1: London Market Insurance Essentials Certification
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Certification
  • AWS Business & Technical Professionals Cloud Certification
  • ISTQB Certified Professional
  • Generative AI Capability Certification.

Languages

English
Fluent
Telugu
Fluent
Kannada
Fluent
Tamil
Fluent
Hindi
Intermediate

Timeline

Senior business analyst

CHUBB Insurance (EMEA)
01.2020 - Current

Business analyst

CHUBB Insurance (EMEA, APAC & LATAM)
08.2012 - 01.2020

Programmer analyst

Hartford Insurance (USA)
12.2010 - 08.2012

Bachelor Of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

SJC Institute of Technology - VTU
08.2006 - 05.2010
MUNIREDDY KRISHNAREDDY