Business Analyst

Description

Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.5+ years of experience as a successful Business System Analyst with increased responsibilities in the annuity or insurance industry.
Proficient in business analysis concepts (business process modeling (BPM), system context diagram development, data analysis, use cases, user stories).3+ years of experience operating as a Business System Analyst within an Agile framework.
Proficiency with techniques used in requirements elicitation, project scoping, requirements analysis, project planning, and analysis activities.
Domain experience with Hedging Platforms and Derivative Trading Systems and processes, licensing and appointments, commission processing and hierarchical structures.
Hands on experience in creating and maintaining Epics and User Stories in JIRA and maintaining well structured Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog
Hands on experience ins Confluence Documentation.

Responsibilities

• The Sr. Business Systems Analyst here is responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business and technical needs of strategic programs/projects on the Derivative Trading and Hedging area for Investment Risk Management.
• Projects will involve several business areas with scope of medium to large complexity, ambiguity, urgency, risk, and technical and regulatory sophistication.
• The Senior Business Systems Analyst serves as the lead for most of the analysis efforts of assigned programs/projects; coordinating the work with other business system analysts or developers as needed.
• Acting as a liaison, facilitating, and communicating among several business and IT partners.
• Accountabilities: Supports all projects encompassing Derivative Trading team and impacted systems.
• Supports medium to large complex projects involving ambiguity and risk encompassing multiple cross-functional business areas.
• Facilitates and leads interviews with business and technology partners to coordinate comprehensive needs and potential interdependencies.
• Partners with Product Owners to identify requirements for system and process enhancements.
• Collects user requirements and acceptance criteria from business partners and translates them to user stories for the product teams to work from.Creates Epics and User Stories in JIRA with clearly documented Acceptance CriteriaEnsures all User Stories meets the Definition of Done established before moving them into Sprint Backlog from the Product Backlog.
• Creates and Ensures the right amount of Confluence documentation on the Released Features and Epics.
• Leads analysis efforts and coordinates efforts of other BSAs.Leads/demonstrates techniques to build business and functional requirements (artifacts).Analyzes business problems and makes recommendations for creative solutions.
• Facilitates, prioritizes, and proposes business process re-designs to improve process results.Develop relationships across multiple business and technology areas.
• Increases business acumen and awareness of best practices to continuously improve business analysis capabilities.Proficient at right-sizing the message to the audience.