Sr BSA

Athene USA - West Des Moines, IA

Full-time - Mid Level

West Des Moines, IA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Sr. Business Systems Analyst at Athene plays a crucial role in the Data Integrations team, focusing on eliciting, analyzing, and documenting both business and technical needs for strategic projects and production support initiatives. This position is essential for managing projects that span multiple business areas, characterized by medium to large complexity, ambiguity, urgency, risk, and technical and regulatory sophistication. The analyst will also be responsible for the initial triage of incidents and conducting investigative technical and business rule research as part of production support. In this role, the Sr. Business Systems Analyst will lead the analysis efforts for assigned programs and projects, coordinating the work of other business system analysts as necessary. Acting as a liaison, the analyst will facilitate communication among various business and IT stakeholders, ensuring that all parties are aligned and informed. The position reports directly to the Manager of Software Development, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and effective communication within the team. The analyst will support projects that involve inbound application processing and the downstream integration with other impacted systems. This includes managing sophisticated projects that encompass multiple multi-functional business areas, fostering relationships, and leading interviews with business and technology partners to gather comprehensive needs and identify potential interdependencies. The role also involves partnering with Product Owners to identify requirements for system and process enhancements, capturing user requirements, and translating them into user stories for product teams. Additionally, the Sr. Business Systems Analyst will analyze business problems, propose creative solutions, facilitate business process redesigns, and participate in vendor requests for information or proposals (RFI/RFPs). The position requires a proactive approach to change management, encouraging others through transitions while managing conflicts effectively. Continuous improvement of business analysis capabilities is a key focus, along with the ability to tailor messages to suit different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Supports projects and production support items encompassing inbound application processing and the downstream integration with other impacted systems.
• Supports sophisticated projects involving ambiguity and risk encompassing multiple multi-functional business areas.
• Fosters relationships and facilitates interviews with business and technology partners to coordinate comprehensive needs and potential interdependencies.
• Partners with Product Owners to identify requirements for system and process enhancements as well as production support.
• Captures user requirements and acceptance criteria from business partners and translates them to user stories for the product teams to work from.
• Leads analysis efforts and coordinates efforts of other BSAs.
• Leads techniques to create business and functional requirements artifacts.
• Analyzes business problems and makes recommendations for creative solutions.
• Facilitates, prioritizes, and proposes business process re-designs to improve process results.
• Participates in vendor requests for information or proposals (RFI/RFPs).
• Embraces change and provides encouragement to guide others through change; manages conflict.
• Increases business acumen and awareness of best practices to continuously improve business analysis capabilities.
• Proficient at right-sizing the message to the audience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
• 5+ years of progressive responsibility & successful business system analysis experience required; with 3+ years of experience operating as a Business System Analyst within an Agile framework.
• Annuity order entry systems, DTCC, and other related downstream system knowledge preferred.
• Proficient in business analysis concepts (business process modeling (BPM), context diagrams, use cases, user stories).
• Proficiency with techniques used in requirements elicitation, project scoping, requirements analysis, project planning, and analysis activities.
• Knowledge in Annuity domain is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Military experience will be considered in lieu of formal degree.