Summary
Are you a Japanese insurance industry professional? Do you have deep knowledge of Japanese claims and/or policy processes and implementing those processes in enterprise insurance systems? Are you looking for a new challenge? Then join us at Guidewire Software and help set the direction for the next generation of Japanese insurance solutions.

Our insurance industry analysts are our insurance experts within the product management team. Your primary responsibility is to explain and represent the Japanese insurance industry to the product development organisation.

Your background will be in Japanese insurance, policy and/or claims, with roles at insurers, brokers, software vendors, or others within the insurance vertical. Maybe you've been an underwriter or underwriting manager, claims manager, a business analyst, or a product manager. You will have a high degree of comfort with technology, and exceptional analytical and communications skills. You will also be comfortable both engaging in product design discussions with developers and presenting to prospective customers.

Because of our strong commitment to quality across the development team, you will also support the creation, execution and validation of robust functional and integration test cases that truly reflect how our customers would exercise our solutions.

When applying for this role include a cover letter that explains why you want to be part of our team and how your experience sets you up for success.

Job Description
*As a Business Analyst at Guidewire, your responsibilities will include:*

• Providing context and perspective to the Product Managers designing and prioritising features for our products.
• Research of insurance industry questions, including interpretation and summarization of insurance manuals, and publications from professional organisations or regulatory bodies.
• Helping implementation teams to understand and interpret the requirements provided by insurers.
• Being the insurance expert who can help customers, prospective customers, engineering, QA, support, sales, and other groups with questions.
• Eliciting, analysing, specifying, and validating the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
• Collaborating with sponsors to determine feature scope and vision.
• Proposing solutions for representing Japanese content in Guidewire products, and identifying and communicating platform gaps where they exist.
• Creating sample policies, claims and other relevant data and validating test results to support application feature design.
• Acting as a subject matter expert on their line(s) of business for customers implementing Japanese local content.
• Documenting known issues and workaround for release notes.
• Participating in Guidewire events as a subject matter expert.
• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

Must Have Skills And Experiences

• 5+ years of experience in the Japanese general insurance industry.
• 3+ years of experience on the IT side of the general insurance industry working as a subject matter expert or business analyst on a Japanese insurance implementation project.
• Subject matter expertise in Japanese property and casualty insurance.
• Technical capacity - you should feel comfortable with non-code technical artefacts that describe application configuration and be able to communicate with the engineering team on tactical technical decisions.
• Familiarity with Insurance modelling.
• Familiarity with modern, rules-based, configurable software applications.
• Ability to translate high level requirements into detailed product specifications.
• Ability to manage complex initiatives with limited supervision.
• Ability to take care of issues directly, firmly, and on time
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• Good decision-making and analytical skills.
• Ability to excel in a team-oriented environment. Experience with agile software development is a plus.
• A real passion for Insurance, software systems and problem solving.
• Familiarity with one or more applications from Guidewire InsuranceSuite is desirable
• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as using data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Other Requirements

• Proficiency in English and Japanese, spoken and written, is required for this role
• Must have the right to live and work in Japan
• Willingness and availability to travel part of the time as needed

Guidewire Software is a leading provider of flexible, enterprise software products focused on servicing the USD$1.5 trillion property and casualty (general) insurance industry. Our products enable companies such as Sompo Japan Insurance (損保ジャパン), Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire (東京海上日動火災保険) and Mitsui Sumitomo & Aioi Nissay Dowa (三井住友海上火災保険株式会社、あいおいニッセイ同和損害保険株式会社) to efficiently run their high volume, complex and mission-critical insurance operations, including underwriting, policy administration, claims, and billing. Guidewire is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with regional development centres in Dublin, Kraków, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Chennai and Toronto.

Insurance is the most complicated and under-served software market in the financial services space. The applications we build are large and extraordinarily complex, and support the needs of customers across the diverse global property and casualty insurance market.

If working in a fast-moving, low-bureaucracy environment sounds good to you; if you'd like to work with a team of great engineers, and you would enjoy being part of a financially strong and growing company, then please contact us. If you'd like to learn more about our work environment, please visit

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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 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.