Japanese Bilingual Business Analyst
Guidewire
Japanese Bilingual Business Analyst
Guidewire
Cloud-based SaaS platform for P&C insurers
Summary
For Senior Consultant, GSCJob Description
Guidewire is seeking a Japanese bilingual Business Analyst to support strategic business and technology initiatives for the Japan market. You will translate complex business needs into clear, implementable solutions and act as a bridge between Japan business teams and global technology teams.
Bilingual Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise between Japanese‑speaking business users and English‑speaking global teams; lead bilingual workshops and requirement discussions.
Requirements & Design: Gather and analyze business needs; create and translate business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories. Help the team understand the business requirements.
Process & Gap Analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders to document business processes, assess gaps between existing and target-state operations, and recommend process enhancements.
Delivery & Testing: Support backlog refinement and sprint planning, ensuring clear Japanese–English acceptance criteria and helping business testers validate outcomes in ST/IT/UAT
Stakeholder Alignment: Communicate options, risks, and decisions to Japanese and global stakeholders and drive consensus.
Actively use Guidewire tools, automation, and responsible AI capabilities to increase your productivity and improve the quality and consistency of project outcomes.
Japanese language proficiency at business level (equivalent to JLPT N2 or above).
5–8 years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar role on technology or transformation programs.
Proven experience in requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, and working with Agile/Scrum teams.
Strong English communication skills (written and verbal).
Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement in your current role.
Experience in the Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance domain.
Guidewire experience or certification (e.g., Guidewire PolicyCenter/ClaimCenter Business Analyst or InsuranceSuite Integrations).
Experience working with Japanese insurers or Japan insurance products.
Exposure to data‑driven or analytics‑heavy initiatives.
Bengaluru (3 days mandatory work from office)
Full‑time
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.
Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.
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Guidewire provides software for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry. Its platform is a cloud-based suite that helps insurers run core operations such as underwriting, policy administration, billing, and claims, with added analytics and AI features. Customers subscribe to the software as a service (SaaS) and pay for cloud access, implementation, and ongoing support. The company differentiates itself by its deep specialization in P&C, a large number of successful implementations (about 1,600), a track record of industry recognition (awards and a strong position in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for P&C Core Platforms in North America), and an integrated set of digital, core, analytics, and AI tools designed to modernize insurers’ core systems. Its goal is to help P&C insurers modernize their technology, improve customer experiences, and grow their businesses through a cloud-based platform.
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