Guidewire Business Analyst [11 / 10 / 2025]

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery. In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to :

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

This position plays a key role in understanding the requirements from the business perspective. This role will work closely with business product owners and technical teams to lead the analysis of problems faced by business users through collaborative discussions.

This role is responsible for managing changes in requirements throughout the project lifecycle, always balancing scope with technical feasibility, and plays a lead role in quality assurance activities. Expectation is that there is a high emphasis on attention to detail and quality of documentation produced using a combination of experience, best practices, standards and an approach that aligns with the PwC SCO guidelines.

To succeed in this position, he / she must be adaptable to change, an adept listener, influencer, negotiator and facilitator, competent at relationship building and conflict resolution, possessing superior oral and written communication skills.

Key Responsibilities Include

The Business Analyst / Process Analysis must be organized, disciplined and focused with the ability to effectively gain trust by understanding, empathizing and eliciting information from business SMEs and / or technical people to produce the applicable project deliverables.

Qualifications

Education / Experience :

PwC Dimensions and Capabilities

Stakeholder Partnership

Business Knowledge

Judgment

Risk Management

Ownership and Commitment

Learning Agility