Business Systems Analyst (932423)

Purpose Financial Services, inc.; Spartanburg (SC); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Purpose Financial/Advance America seeks a skilled Business Systems Analyst to articulate business needs, translate them into system requirements, and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to deliver software solutions within the financial services domain.

The role emphasizes requirements design, timelines, and interaction with executives, managers, and developers to ensure feasible, high-quality features and defect corrections.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and product management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience interpreting customer business needs into application requirements.
• Ability to interact professionally with diverse groups including executives and managers.

Responsibilities

• Develop functional requirements specifications using standard templates and natural language.
• Serve as conduit between customer community and software development team for functional requirements.
• Collaborate with developers and SMEs to establish design vision and analyze usability vs. performance needs.
• Elicit and drive functional requirements using interviews, workshops, and use cases.
• Design solutions as part of an integrated team for software product offerings and defects.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Requirements elicitation

Product management

Agile

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Job description

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Company: Purpose Financial/Advance America.

Address : 135 N Church Street , Spartanburg , South Carolina , United States - 29306

Since 1997, Advance America has helped millions of hardworking people with a variety of personalized financial solutions. We are a nationally recognized, fully licensed financial services company with over 1,900 locations and online lending services.

We are currently seeking highly-skilled, career-oriented individuals ready to be part of a growing company!

This position reports to the Director of Continuous Improvement and, is responsible for requirements elicitation, understanding the business and making recommendations for improvement and analyzing the requirements to determine the system needs to fulfill those requirements. Works with Systems Solutions team to determine high-level estimates on the level of effort and target implementation timeline as well as overall feasibility and solutions options. Responsible for designing functional requirements (functionality, workflow, usability, but not architecture), as part of an integrated team, for software product offerings, enhancements, extensions, features and defect corrections. Requires a core understanding of existing systems architecture and platforms. Responsible for setting and meeting implementation deadlines for work streams where a Project Manager is not involved. Interfaces with business owners, project managers, developers, software quality engineers and external parties. The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) role is a combination of business analyst, requirements analyst and systems analyst.

Job Responsibility

Support

• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Develop functional requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.

Influence

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional Requirements Document including Use Cases, User Interface Design, and Process Models.
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which functional requirements flow.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the design vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
  • Elicit and drive functional requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis and workflow analysis.
  • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
  • Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.

Job Responsibilities Cont.

Manage

• Responsible for designing solutions, as part of an integrated team, for software product offerings, enhancements, extensions, features and defect corrections.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Will be accountable for Requirements Design time estimates in hours.
• Needs to have light project management skills (for work streams that do not include a PM).
• Presents Functional Designs in Business/IT review meetings.
• Reviews Technical Design documents, Development integration tests and Quality Assurance test plans and/or matrices for conformance to design.

Maintain

• Facilitates definition and division of software development tasks among team members in an agile environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Adhere to all points of the creed.

Education Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

Experience Required

Five or more years of Business Requirements decomposition and Software Design. Five or more years in Financial/Lending Services. Web application Design, Testing and Implementation. Reasonable database development. Agile development methodologies all preferred.

Physical requirements

Sitting for long periods of time; standing occasionally; walking; bending; squatting; kneeling; pushing/pulling; reaching; twisting; frequent lifting of less than 10 lbs., occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs.; driving and having access during the workday to an insured and reliable transportation; typing; data entry; grasping; transferring items between hands and/or to another person or receptacle; use of office equipment to include computers; ability to travel to, be physically present at, and complete the physical requirements of the position at any assigned location.

Action Oriented

Core Values and Business Ethics

• Customer Focus
• Drive For Results
• Functional/ Technical Skills
• Innovation and Quality
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Personal Learning
• Team Relations
• Time Management
• Supervisory Responsibiity

Travel

As needed.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

Salaried position working 40 hours per week.

Attire

Business casual.

Other Duties

Must be eligible to work in the USA and able to pass a background check.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
Requisition ID: 1695

Nearest Major Market: Spartanburg
Nearest Secondary Market: South Carolina