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Education
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Certification
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Arunangshu Chakraborty

Arunangshu Chakraborty

Bengaluru

Summary

Business Analyst/Product Owner with 11 years of experience in Life Insurance, Annuities, and Property & Casualty Insurance across USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Expertise in translating complex business requirements into actionable product features, driving product development, and optimizing processes for enhanced operational efficiency. Proven ability to manage stakeholder relationships and navigate regulatory landscapes, delivering tailored solutions that meet market needs. Strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills, with a focus on critical thinking and innovative problem-solving to drive business growth.

Possesses sound knowledge of Life Insurance products in the North American (US, Canada), UK and Australian geography like traditional and advanced like Whole Life, Term Life, Universal Life, Variable Universal Life, Indexed Universal Life, Interest Sensitive Life, Modified Endowment Contract, IRA, Roth IRA.

Experienced and adept and possessing expertise on all the stages of STLC right from Project Initiation , Portfolio Planning, Resource Allocation, Preparation of estimates, preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), project management through JIRA and Confluence.

Expertise working on Waterfall and Agile Methodology (Scrum)

Extremely experienced and possess very good amount of expertise on various functionalities in Insurance like New Business, Underwriting, Billing, Claims, Commission Target, Shadow accounts and calculation of Safety Net Premium, Reinstatement, Policy administration, Reinsurance, Reissue, Grace and Lapse processing, Rate Class change, Face Amount Change, Pension/Superannuation, Annuities,AgencyCommissions, Disbursements, Systematic Withdrawals, Full/Partial Surrenders, Regulatory Changes, Reinsurance, Policy Pages generation, generation of Annual Statements and Premium Due notices .

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Consultant

Allianz Technology
Pune
03.2024 - 12.2024

Led development of Claims Creation, Processing, and Closure module for Allianz UK.

Supervised complex functionalities, including Claim Reporting and Claim Linkage to Incidents.

Functioned as Product Owner and Business Analyst within P&C Insurance landscape.

Drove enhancements in Allianz Business System to improve efficiency of claims processes.

Lead Business Consultant

Visionet Systems
Bengaluru
04.2023 - 03.2024

Identified and rectified faulty policies causing negative or zero AGSV on reinstated lapsed policies.

Led resolution efforts for IUL, VUL, and UL products, ensuring accurate AGSV display.

Oversaw code modifications to correct AGSV calculation errors impacting lapsed policy reinstatement.

Collaborated with stakeholders to clarify AGSV requirements and streamline policy management.

Lead Business Analyst

Atos Syntel
Pune
11.2021 - 03.2023

Directed development and management of retirement savings funds for employed and self-employed individuals at NEST.

Facilitated member enrollment, verifying existing registrations in NEST database.

Performed deduplication checks to efficiently identify and resolve duplicate entries.

Coordinated data transfer between front-end portal JAHIA and PEGA using two APIM layers.

Maintained data integrity in Sapiens Consolidation Master by creating unique party IDs.

Engaged with clients to align projects with organizational goals.

Senior Business Analyst

Allianz Technology SE
Pune
01.2020 - 11.2021

Investigated causes of negative benefit base in annuity contracts for Allianz Australia Limited.

Assessed effects of excess money withdrawals on future benefits and contract value.

Coordinated with ABS team to refine processes and enhance project outcomes.

Outlined strategies to prevent reduction of benefit base during excessive withdrawals.

Developed documentation detailing analysis results and proposed solutions.

Promoted understanding of Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefit among stakeholders.

  • Enhanced accuracy in assessing contract performance through data analysis.
  • Led discussions on optimizing withdrawal limits to protect benefit bases.

Business Analyst

Coforge (formerly NIIT Technologies)
Noida
11.2017 - 01.2020

Analyzed shadow accounts to calculate Early Pay Adjustment bonuses for Lincoln Financial Group.

Evaluated premium allocation among different tiers of shadow accounts using commission targets.

Developed actuarial spreadsheets to ascertain tier values and shadow account capacities.

Ran time-driven jobs to project policy aging and assess premium scenarios.

Implemented nightly batch jobs on Mainframe for processing future premium payments.

Conducted product testing for offerings such as Guaranteed Builder IUL and Custom Term Guaranteed UL.

Consultant

Allstate India
Bengaluru
10.2016 - 11.2017

Ensured all signed illustrations were included in the Agent Section of policy page packets.

Verified that no second signed illustration copies were issued to customers.

Implemented streamlined processes within Allstate, enhancing operational efficiency.

Collaborated with CyberLife, improving project alignment with requirements.

Reduced need for customer signature visits, lightening agent workload.

Facilitated compliance with delivery standards while optimizing resources.

Contributed to creation of policy pages tailored for producers and customers.

Analyzed workflows, pinpointing areas for potential time savings.

Product Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solution
Kolkata
12.2013 - 10.2016

Reviewed and processed transactions in CyberLife following policy creation in LifeComm and Life70 systems.

Ensured output verification across browser system, mainframe, and documentation for transaction results.

Administered New Business, Inforce transactions including Loans and Withdrawals effectively.

Facilitated material changes such as Increase, Decrease, and Rate class changes promptly.

Performed critical tasks for Payment processing, Billing, and Claims management.

Executed pre- and post-validation on mainframe segments surrounding transaction processing activities.

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Asansol Engineering College
Asansol
01.2013

Class XII - I.C.S.E

St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School
Asansol
01.2009

Skills

  • Life Insurance & Annuities
  • Property & Casualty Insurance
  • Term Life
  • Universal Life
  • Indexed Universal Life
  • Variable Universal Life
  • Individual and Group Life Insurance
  • Group Retirement & Benefits
  • IRA
  • Roth IRA
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SQL Databases
  • Vantage One
  • WMA
  • CyberLife
  • LifeComm
  • Life70
  • Performance Plus (P Plus)
  • FAST
  • Allianz Business System (ABS)
  • JCL
  • COBOL
  • DB2
  • Confluence
  • JIRA
  • Figma
  • MIRO
  • BRD
  • FRD
  • JAD
  • Mainframes
  • Tools for Reporting
  • Data Deduplication
  • PEGA
  • Illustration
  • Financial Consolidation
  • Actuarial Science
  • SDLC
  • Gap Analysis
  • Product Ownership
  • Business Analysis
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Claims processing
  • Business analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Data integrity
  • Project management
  • Policy management
  • Proposal development
  • Resource allocation
  • Change management
  • Configuration management

Certification

LOMA 280, 290, 301

CBAP

Hobbies and interests

Playing cricket, football, outdoor games.

Watching movies from all genres across world cinema.

Learning new languages.

Affiliations

  • I take a keen interest in reading books and keeping myself well informed about various fields ranging from science and technology to sports, global affairs, history, geography, art, music of all genres
  • I love learning languages as I believe it is a gateway to knowledge and meeting people of different cultures and enriching ones experience.
  • I love playing cricket, football and other outdoor games,

Languages

English
First Language
French
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Principal Consultant

Allianz Technology
03.2024 - 12.2024

Lead Business Consultant

Visionet Systems
04.2023 - 03.2024

Lead Business Analyst

Atos Syntel
11.2021 - 03.2023

Senior Business Analyst

Allianz Technology SE
01.2020 - 11.2021

Business Analyst

Coforge (formerly NIIT Technologies)
11.2017 - 01.2020

Consultant

Allstate India
10.2016 - 11.2017

Product Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solution
12.2013 - 10.2016

Bachelor of Technology -

Asansol Engineering College

Class XII - I.C.S.E

St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School
Arunangshu Chakraborty