Business System Analyst
Company: Diverse Lynx
Location: West Des Moines
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
Job Description
Role: Business System Analyst
Location: West Des Moines, Iowa (Onsite)
Type: Full Time
Purpose:
The IT Business System Analyst acts as a primary liaison between IT
and Finance Business teams to ensure that project requirements and
business unit enhancements are implemented appropriately with
existing finance systems. This role is a change leader that drives
improvements through the organization by analyzing business
problems, participating in decision making, and finding creative
solutions acceptable to both IT and Business.
Accountabilities:
- Support small to medium sized projects with moderate complexity
within Finance IT
- Responsible for eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business
and technical requirements for projects
- Write user stories using Agile methods that are well formed and
have necessary acceptance criteria; communicate across Business and
IT teams to ensure understanding of change
- Participate in process re-designs to eliminate waste and manual
processes
- Support change requests for one or more core Finance technology
platforms including the General Ledger/EBS, Hyperion, Finance data
mart, and reporting systems
- Act as liaison between various Business and IT teams including
Finance, Investment Accounting, and Insurance Accounting areas
- Document current and future system states; support business
adoption and change management
- Ability to learn how to create workflow diagrams, data
mappings, and user story maps to help define complex systems
- Ability to learn basic insurance and accounting practices;
apply knowledge through requirements analysis to identify system
gaps and risks
- Support day-to-day Business operations and act as primary
contact to intake and define new change requests; add new work to
the team backlog and work with Product Owner to define
priority
- Analyze business problems and participate in recommendations of
creative solutions; follow a logical process and help prepare
alternatives in a way that enables decision making
- Employ various techniques to create business and functional
requirements (artifacts) including workflow diagrams, data
mappings, and user stories
- Partner with Quality Assurance (QA) to identify and document
testing considerations, develop traceability matrices, and assists
with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively within own team
and management; possess ability to tailor the message to the
audience
- Support internal policies and procedures; adheres to company
defined IT standards, controls, and procedures
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information
Technology, Management Information Systems or equivalent
combination of education and work experience
- 2+ years of progressive responsibility & successful business
system analysis experience, preferably with Finance, Accounting, or
Insurance Operations
- Proficient in business analysis concepts (business process
modeling, data mapping, use cases, user stories)
- Proficient in some facets of Project Management and SDLC
processes
- Experience with Agile/Iterative development methodology and
using JIRA to create user stories
- Experience gathering requirements, analyzing data, facilitating
meetings, documenting specifications and coordinating or leading
projects
- Familiarity with Annuities and strong documentation skills
Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All
qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment
without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely
on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven
capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding
role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels
in the company.
Keywords: Diverse Lynx, West Des Moines , Business System Analyst, Professions , West Des Moines, Iowa
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