Sr Business Analyst

About this Role

As a Senior Business Analyst, you are responsible for planning, designing, developing and launching efficient business, financial and operations systems in support of core organizational functions and business processes.

In this Role You Will

• Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial and operations requirements, define systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues

• Lead current state and future state documentation and coordinate prototype efforts for new systems for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations and information process flow

• Create feature maps, user stories, and assist in the development process through the utilization of Agile and other software development methodologies

• Assist in the management of development efforts through Scrum and Kanban process, which includes scrum meetings, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings.

• Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas in operating systems across the organization

• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analysis for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions

• Create business process models, specifications, diagrams and charts to provide direction to system programmers

• Develop test conditions, test scripts and performs test validation to ensure that the appropriate level of testing is performed prior to implementing system changes

• Plan, coordinate and perform in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new systems, and other post-implementation support

Qualifications, Competencies and Skills

• Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) from four-year college or university in the field of business administration, computer science, accounting or management information systems; and/or seven or more years work experience and/or training in the field of business systems analysis or software development; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Minimum of five years' experience in overseeing the design, development, testing, training and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems or products.

• Possess in-depth technical and general business knowledge.

• Familiar with different development approaches including: traditional waterfall, agile, proto-typing, and other methods.

• Experienced in software requirement elicitation, documentation, analysis and testing.

• Experience in Business gap analysis and process flow modeling.

• Preferrred Experience:

• Supporting cloud development

• Banking experience

• Digital transformation experience

• Technical writing

• Experience with MS Visio for process mapping

Compensation Disclosure

The range for this role takes into account many factors that First Bank considers when making hiring decisions, including but not limited to prior experience, skill set, training, and other internal business and organizational factors. First Bank generally does not hire at or near the top of the stated range. The range is driven by the geographic location of the anticipated hiring location; however, the specific range may vary depending on the geographic location for remote positions. Compensation decisions depend on the specific facts and circumstances of each hiring instance.

A reasonable estimate of the current pay range is $81,500 - $100,000.