Sr Business Analyst

A leading retirement services company that issues reinsures and acquires retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs.
The company sees every day as a new opportunity to measure ourselves against the best and then we dont stop until weve set the bar even higher. Purpose: 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 the Derivative Trading team and impacted systems.
Supports medium to large complex projects involving ambiguity and risk encompassing multiple crossfunctional 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 meet 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 redesigns 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 rightsizing the message to the audience.

Qualifications and Experience:
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 and 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.
Handson experience in creating and maintaining Epics and User Stories in JIRA and maintaining wellstructured Product Backlog and Sprint BacklogHands on experience in Confluence Documentation.