Sr. Business Analyst

Location: St. Louis, MO

Categories: Business Analyst

General Summary

Under limited supervision, serves as primary liaison between users and IT teams to analyze business and functional requirements and establish data requirements and processes related to reporting and analytics. Evaluate business requests to determine requirements, feasibility, and recommend business solutions.

Principal Duties, Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Develops, validates, documents, and maintains business and functional requirements; conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members.

• May work with project teams to support requirements gathering.

  • Analyzes source system data in support of integration of applications into a business intelligence environment.
  • Defines data mapping specifications to support data transformation.
  • Facilitates the identification of common data elements and their definition.
  • Facilitates the identification of master data elements and their definition.

• May analyze source system data, etc. in support of improving data quality.

  • Works with the business to identify data issues and identify potential solutions.
  • Proactively works to identify ways to improve data quality through various processes, including business rules automation.

• Evaluates business requests to determine feasibility; researches and identifies options.

• May lead acceptance testing to ensure client/user needs are met.

• Responds to questions from business and IT teams.

• Evaluates and tracks new or enhanced solutions to determine potential issues and communicates how problems may affect business and recommends solutions.

• Participates in change management activities, Q&A testing, troubleshooting, and investigation.

• Performs task automation and implements process improvements; recommends enhancements that result in increased quality and service.

• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Preferred:

• LOMA Certification
• ARA Designation

Experience & Skills

Required:

• 5-7 years IT-related experience, such as business analysis, data analysis, etc.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods while working under tight deadlines and stressful conditions.
• Advanced data analysis skill.
• Advanced investigative, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously; ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment and participate in department and team projects.
• Ability to balance detail with departmental goals and objectives.
• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable and accepted solutions.
• Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills.
• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines.
• General business knowledge.

Preferred:

• 8+ years IT-related experience, such as business analysis, data analysis, etc.
• 2+ years life insurance industry knowledge.
• Experience with MDM and/or data governance implementations.
• Experience with SSRS reporting.