<p>As a Business Systems Analyst / Scrum Master, you’ll play a pivotal role at the intersection of agile delivery, business processes, and technology implementation. You’ll guide cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions while ensuring business requirements are clearly defined, traceable, and aligned with strategic goals.</p><p>Our technology ecosystem spans multiple platforms, business lines, and integration points — success in this role means balancing structured analysis with agile adaptability. You’ll partner with product owners, technology leaders, application developers, quality assurance testers, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions deliver meaningful, measurable value.</p><p>This is a hands-on, high-impact role in a fast-paced environment where curiosity, communication, and ownership drive results.</p><p><br></p><p>Accountabilities</p><p>• Drive clarity and documentation — capture detailed functional and technical requirements, workflows, and process and technology dependencies across systems and integration points.</p><p>• Translate business strategy into execution — work with business and technology leaders to define clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint goals aligned to enterprise priorities.</p><p>• Facilitate agile delivery — lead sprint ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and coach teams in Agile principles to promote continuous improvement and accountability.</p><p>• Bridge communication across functions — ensure seamless collaboration between products owners, technology leaders, project managers, developers, QA, and other roles and teams as needed.</p><p>• Balance agility and structure — manage iterative delivery in an Agile/Scrum framework while applying structured analysis where appropriate for compliance and traceability.</p><p>• Enable transparency and decision-making — track metrics and report on sprint progress to stakeholders.</p><p>• Champion alignment — communicate complex business or technical concepts in simple, actionable terms for diverse audiences.</p><p>• Promote continuous improvement — identify opportunities to enhance team performance, process efficiency, and product quality.</p><p>• Remove impediments to team progress by proactively identifying, tracking, and resolving blockers that hinder delivery.</p><p>• Drive on-time delivery by ensuring the team meets committed sprint and project dates, facilitating alignment across stakeholders, and escalating risks when necessary.</p>
<p>Join our insurance client’s dynamic team in Des Moines, Iowa as a Senior Investment Accounting Analyst and play a pivotal role in shaping the organization’s financial landscape! This is your opportunity to step into a fast-paced environment where your expertise in investment accounting will directly impact business decisions and financial reporting.</p><p><br></p><p>As a Senior Investment Accounting Analyst, you'll manage and analyze investment-related financial data, deliver critical reports for internal and external stakeholders, and ensure compliance with accounting standards. You'll collaborate with professionals across departments, drive process improvements, and contribute to the organization's ongoing success.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Prepare accurate, timely annual, quarterly, and monthly investment reports for both internal leadership and external stakeholders.</li><li>Manage and maintain the organization’s investment accounting system, safeguarding data integrity and reliability.</li><li>Analyze and project cash flows to support financial planning and strategic decisions.</li><li>Update and maintain the investment database, ensuring information is both precise and accessible.</li><li>Be a subject matter expert on investment accounting, offering insights and guidance within your department.</li><li>Tackle complex assignments with professionalism and uphold compliance with statutory accounting principles and GAAP.</li><li>Collaborate effectively across all levels to achieve department and company goals.</li><li>Ensure adherence to regulatory and organizational standards in investment-related reporting.</li><li>Monitor and evaluate investment portfolios, including derivatives and fixed income assets.</li><li>Lead process improvements and contribute to enhancing reporting systems.</li></ul><p>If you thrive in a collaborative environment, are passionate about investment accounting, and want to take your career to the next level, our client wants to hear from you!</p>
<p>We are looking for a skilled Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team in Des Moines, Iowa. This long-term contract position offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to the quality and accuracy of agent-facing applications and policy submission workflows. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience in quality assurance processes, a strong understanding of annuity systems, and expertise in testing tools and methodologies.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Perform thorough testing of agent-facing applications to ensure policy submission workflows are accurate and efficient.</p><p>• Validate policy inputs and system behaviors using tools like AN4, Affirm, and FireLight.</p><p>• Support document scanning processes, including indexing pages, locating documents in Ignite, and ensuring proper routing.</p><p>• Conduct testing for both physical scanner operations and digital drag-and-drop scanning workflows.</p><p>• Maintain regression test suites for assigned applications and ensure test cases align with business requirements.</p><p>• Utilize Jira for tracking and managing test cases and defects.</p><p>• Collaborate with team members to improve QA processes and implement new testing techniques.</p><p>• Apply mathematical skills and attention to detail to analyze and synthesize complex information.</p><p>• Ensure customer service excellence by providing clear communication and addressing inquiries effectively.</p><p>• Drive improvements in testing tools and methodologies while adhering to the software development life cycle.</p>
<p>We are looking for a skilled Quality Assurance Analyst II to join our team on a long-term contract basis in Des Moines, Iowa. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the functionality, accuracy, and reliability of applications and data systems across both user interfaces and backend processes. Your expertise in quality assurance testing, particularly within the insurance and annuities domain, will play a vital role in maintaining high standards of performance and compliance.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Conduct comprehensive manual and automated testing, including functional and regression testing, to ensure system reliability.</p><p>• Validate data accuracy and consistency across policy administration systems, ensuring compliance with organizational and industry standards.</p><p>• Utilize tools like Postman and SQL queries to test APIs and analyze data flows between systems.</p><p>• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues, ensuring seamless integration and data display.</p><p>• Develop and maintain test cases, strategies, and plans using industry-standard tools like qTest.</p><p>• Monitor production applications, investigate reported issues, and provide detailed analysis to facilitate resolution.</p><p>• Ensure timely documentation of test results, bugs, and project reports while adhering to high-quality standards.</p><p>• Lead quality assurance efforts on projects of low to medium complexity, delivering clear and actionable insights.</p><p>• Create estimations, daily status reports, and project closure documents to support effective communication and planning.</p><p>• Identify potential risks within testing processes and propose strategies to mitigate their impact on project timelines.</p>
We are looking for a dedicated EUC Help Desk/Desktop Support Analyst to join our team in West Des Moines, Iowa. In this role, you will provide exceptional technical support and troubleshooting services to ensure smooth user operations. This is a long-term contract position ideal for professionals with a strong background in desktop support and system administration.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Deliver Tier 3 support for end-user computing systems, ensuring timely resolution of complex technical issues.<br>• Manage user accounts and access permissions within Active Directory.<br>• Perform troubleshooting for Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 environments to resolve hardware and software problems.<br>• Respond to and resolve service desk tickets efficiently, maintaining detailed documentation of solutions.<br>• Provide technical assistance to users, addressing system functionality and application concerns.<br>• Install, configure, and maintain desktop systems and peripheral devices.<br>• Collaborate with other IT teams to escalate and resolve advanced technical issues.<br>• Conduct system updates and patches to ensure optimal performance and security.<br>• Offer guidance and training to users on system operations and best practices.<br>• Analyze recurring problems to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
<p>We are looking for a detail-oriented Accountant to join our clients team in Des Moines, Iowa. In this role, you will play a key part in the preparation and review of financial statements, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and supporting quarterly and annual reporting processes. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with external auditors and contribute to process improvement initiatives within the financial reporting domain.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Support the quarterly financial statement close process by preparing and reviewing reconciliations and analysis files.</p><p>• Assist in the creation and review of financial statements and other regulatory filings, including Form 10-Q and Form 10-K.</p><p>• Collaborate with external auditors to facilitate audits and reviews effectively.</p><p>• Participate in the preparation of presentations and proxy statements for stakeholders.</p><p>• Contribute to the improvement of financial reporting processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.</p><p>• Maintain compliance with SEC reporting requirements and ensure accurate documentation.</p><p>• Engage in actuarial and related discussions to support financial decision-making.</p><p>• Perform additional tasks as assigned to support the financial reporting team.A</p>
<p>- Opportunity to help build a Finance Center of Excellence for a historic, 100-year-old insurance company expanding in Des Moines</p><p>- Join a small local team with plans to double in size and shape the growth from the ground up</p><p>- Be part of creating new processes and a collaborative culture—put your personal stamp on how things are done</p><p>- Unique chance to influence office expansion and not just be a cog in the wheel</p><p><br></p><p>Roles we are sourcing for:</p><p>- Director of Investment Accounting</p><p>- GAAP Senior Accountant</p><p>- Treasury Operations Analyst</p><p>- Senior Investment Accountant</p><p>- FP& A</p><p>(Must have insurance accounting experience)</p><p><br></p><p>Curious and open to a quick conversation to understand what is in it for you, reach out now!! Client is meeting candidates later this week (2/19 & 2/20)</p><p>If you are currently working with one of my business partners (Jessica Gianulis, Jill Smith or Malinda Hostetler) – please reach out to them immediately as we are a team all working on the roles!</p>
