Sr Business Systems Analyst

Symetra has an exciting opportunity to join our growing team as a Sr. Business Systems Analyst!

About the role

Responsible for performing moderately complex, cross functional and cross asset class business and process analysis. Scope of work includes understanding of business analysis techniques needed to effectively and efficiently analyze enterprise-wide systems, extracts and interfaces. Has a good understanding of the interrelationships between systems and processes with those of the overall enterprise and can identify some possible impacts as a result of more complex changes. Uses understanding of enterprise systems relationships to assess process and systems improvements to insure alignment of current needs with desired future direction. Demonstrated understanding of SIM REI’s business and systems domains as well as the industry in which we operate. The Sr Business Analyst will collaborate with Project Managers, Data Analysts, and business users to document requirements, improve processes, and validate system outputs — ensuring SIM delivers high-quality investment data, insights, and service to internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, works closely with SIM REI customers, vendors and intermediaries to provide support, access control and system subject matter expertise.

What you will do

• Stakeholder identification, selection of business analysis techniques, process that will be used to manage requirements, and how to access the progress of the work.
• Evaluates project complexity of all domains (Business, IT, Vendor)
• Builds relationships with business partners including users, vendors, project team and management at all levels.
• Develops a communication plan to meet the needs of all business partners and can adapt communication style to different audiences.
• Utilizes some advanced techniques to measure quality of business analysis and can implement appropriate change based on the metrics.
• Manages changes to requirements and assesses impact to scope of moderate to complex projects.
• Manage conflicts and collaborates with project team and stakeholders to gain consensus.
• Develops and maintains traceability of the requirements from planning through post-production phases of projects to ensure quality of delivery.
• Has a good understanding of reuse standards and can help develop and apply new standards for maintaining analysis artifacts.
• Creates comprehensive requirements artifacts at the level of details to support development of solution.
• Facilitates reviews of requirements using formal and informal techniques for large projects.
• Ability to use the more complex analysis techniques, identified in planning, to accurately flush out requirements.
• Able to determine when additional information is needed to discover requirements that the stakeholder is not aware of.
• Accurately documents the requirements so that the stakeholders understand and can review
• Validates the requirements are what the stakeholders intended in order to meet their needs.
• Identify business needs, refine and clarify the definition of the needs and validate the solution meets the needs.
• Problem definition and analysis, business case development, feasibility and definition of the scope.
• Helps stakeholders identify areas of opportunity and facilitates exploration
• Has a broad understanding of business functions such as Service and Operations, Sales and Distribution, Compliance etc.
• Understands organizational culture and uses relationships to influence decisions at project, business and management levels.
• Has a good understanding of the framework of the company (structure, people, processes and technology.
• Ability to prioritize requirements based on cost, timelines and business value.
• Assess a large amount of information and can organize in ways that various stakeholders understand.
• Leverages models to provide insight into opportunities for improvement.
• Develops abstract models that describe business domain, in order to elect requirements.
• Utilizes matrices to organize and show relationships between requirements.
• Assess proposed solution to determine which solution best fits the business need, identify gaps in solution, and