Business System Analyst

Athene Annuity And Life Company • West Des Moines, IA

291d

About The Position

The Business Systems Analyst is responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business and technical needs of strategic projects and system enhancements for the Data Integrations (DI) and Automated Order Entry (AOE) teams. Projects will involve several business areas with scope of medium to large complexity, ambiguity, urgency, risk, and technical and regulatory sophistication. Serves as the lead for all or majority of the analysis efforts of assigned programs/projects for these teams and coordinates dependency efforts with other business system analysts as needed. Acts as a liaison, facilitating and communicating among several business and IT stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
• 3+ years of progressive responsibility & successful business system analysis or relevant experience required.
• Order Entry Platform and other related downstream system knowledge preferred.
• Knowledge in business analysis concepts (business process modeling (BPM), context diagrams, use cases, user stories).
• Knowledge with techniques used in requirements elicitation, project scoping, requirements analysis, project planning, and analysis activities.
• Knowledge in Annuity domain is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supports all projects and system enhancements encompassing DI and AOE and the downstream integration with other impacted systems.
• Supports sophisticated projects involving ambiguity and risk encompassing multiple multi-functional business areas.
• Fosters relationships as well as 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.
• Captures user requirements and acceptance criteria from business partners and translates them to user stories for the product teams to work from.
• Conducts analysis efforts and coordinates efforts of other BSAs.
• Leads/demonstrates techniques to create business and functional requirements (artifacts).
• Analyzes business problems and makes recommendations for creative solutions.
• Provides production support for analysis and resolution of system defects reported by business partners.
• Facilitates, prioritizes, and proposes business process re-designs to improve process results.
• Participates in vendor requests for information or proposals (RFI/RFPs).
• Embraces change and provides encouragement to guide others through change; manages conflict.
• Increases business acumen and awareness of best practices to continuously improve business analysis capabilities.
• Proficient at right-sizing the message to the audience.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree