Strategic Database Business Planning Analyst - (Work from Home)

Job Family

Corporate Development, Strategy and Sustainability

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Support management to ensure strategic business priorities are identified, prioritized, executed and results measured. Maintain the strategic roadmap and business intake project portfolios.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains databases used by operations
• Identifies solutions
• Triages issue ticket and enhancement requests (performing  analysis)
• Documents requirements, test cases and performs testing.
• Work tickets through execution
• Update master ticket with information- ticket phase, target implementation date, risk reportable event etc.
• Assist in creation of creating alerts for database outages or issues
• Raises up concerns or risks to leadership
• Shares production support ticket root causes for broken functionally.
• Coordinate with peers across the organization (including the PMO as a key stakeholder) to develop and execute a holistic strategic planning process.
• Identify integrations and establish contacts across the organization to align efforts and plan implementation.
• Assist with escalated issues on priorities, goals, strategies, resources and key initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or equivalent experience.
• Five years of strategic planning experience in a similar environment or in a planning/consultant role.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization to influence others towards strategic goals.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to plan strategy, tactics and perform root-cause analysis.
• Familiarity with project management tools, lifecycles, etc.
• Proficiency using MS Office tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Insurance/financial services experience.
• Knowledge of LEAN Six Sigma methodology.

Working Conditions

• Remote
• Occasional travel to attend strategic planning sessions.

*Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimated based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations.**

 

The salary for this position generally ranges between $78,000 - $104,000 annually. This range is an estimate, based on potential qualifications and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

 

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