Client Services Analyst I

As a Client Services Analyst at Zinnia, you will be a crucial part of delivering Zinnias software platforms and business solutions to clients. Your role involves acting as a primary point of contact between clients, internal delivery teams, and implementation leadership to ensure client requirements are clearly understood, documented, and successfully delivered. Your responsibilities will include requirements analysis, documentation, solution design, and client support throughout the implementation lifecycle. Additionally, you will be expected to foster strong client relationships and maintain high standards of service delivery. Key Responsibilities: - Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned clients, managing both voice and non-voice communications during US shift. - Provide timely support for client issues, service requests, system defects, and business queries while meeting defined SLAs. - Analyze reported issues, perform initial troubleshooting, coordinate with internal teams, and provide regular status updates until resolution. - Build and maintain strong client relationships by understanding client business objectives, operational processes, and product requirements. - Conduct client meetings, status calls, requirement discussions, issue reviews, and stakeholder communications. - Gather, analyze, validate, and document business requirements, translating client needs into BRDs, user stories, process flows, use cases, and solution specifications. - Facilitate requirement workshops, gap analysis sessions, impact assessments, and solution discussions with business and technical stakeholders. - Evaluate enhancement requests and recommend optimal business and technical solutions aligned with client objectives. - Prepare Statements of Work (SOW), effort estimates, cost estimates, change requests, and impact assessments for client enhancements. - Act as the liaison between clients and cross-functional teams including Product Management, Development, QA, and Infrastructure. Qualifications Required: - Strong Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering, and Documentation skills. - Experience in client-facing support, stakeholder management, and relationship management. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with US-based clients. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities. - Experience in incident management, issue resolution, escalation handling, and product support. - Ability to translate business requirements into functional specifications and technical deliverables. - Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and Release Management processes. - Strong organizational, planning, multitasking, and project coordination capabilities. - Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Desired Skills: - Experience in Life Insurance, Annuity, Retirement Services, or Financial Services domains. - Experience with tools such as Jira, basic of XML and MS office. - Ability to work in overlapping US business hours and support client engagements. - Experience in a B2B SaaS environment supporting enterprise clients and product delivery. At Zinnia, you will collaborate with smart, creative professionals dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of the Zinnia website. Zinnia is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. Zinnia does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. As a Client Services Analyst at Zinnia, you will be a crucial part of delivering Zinnias software platforms and business solutions to clients. Your role involves acting as a primary point of contact between clients, internal delivery teams, and implementation leadership to ensure client requirements are clearly understood, documented, and successfully delivered. Your responsibilities will include requirements analysis, documentation, solution design, and client support throughout the implementation lifecycle. Additionally, you will be expected to foster strong client relationships and maintain high standards of service delivery. Key Responsibilities: - Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned clients, managing both voice and non-voice communications during US shift. - Provide timely support for client issues, service requests, system defects, and business queries while meeting defined SLAs. - Analyze reported issues, perform initial troubleshooting, coordinate with internal teams, and provide regular status updates until resolution. - Build and maintain strong client relationships by understanding client business objectives, operational processes, and product requirements. - Conduct client meetings, status calls, requireme