Senior Applications Analyst - Drive Efficient Banking Apps

First Merchants Bank; Tennessee; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

401k

Vacation/Sick Time

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

First Merchants Bank seeks a Senior Applications Analyst to elicit stakeholder needs, analyze business requirements, and evaluate risk for assigned applications, ensuring reliability and alignment with vendor requirements.

You will lead initiatives, manage reporting, support disaster recovery plans, and collaborate across departments to drive efficiency and improve client experiences within our financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of application/business/systems analyst experience in a financial services environment.
• Ability to elicit stakeholder needs, analyze requirements, and document risk.
• Experience with enterprise applications, bank integrations, and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the assigned applications are fully utilizing features and drive efficiency; improve client experience.
• Evaluate product offerings and identify feasibility, business value, and benefits; present with rationale.
• Lead or participate in projects (system upgrades, bank integrations) using standard project management practices.
• Maintain reporting systems to provide actionable information for decisions.
• Maintain Disaster Recovery plans and models.
• Ensure changes follow standard processes with approvals.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

SQL

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, IT, or related field

Financial services knowledge

Tools

SQL

SSRS

SAS Visual Analytics

Microsoft Excel

Job description

First Merchants Bank seeks a Senior Applications Analyst to elicit stakeholder needs, analyze business requirements, and evaluate risk for assigned applications, ensuring reliability and alignment with vendor requirements.

You will lead initiatives, manage reporting, support disaster recovery plans, and collaborate across departments to drive efficiency and improve client experiences within our financial services environment.