Senior Associate, Business Systems Analysis

Please Note:  This Position Is Not Eligible For Visa Sponsorship

What You'll Do:

OCC is seeking an individual who would be responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of internal and external sources, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a proven change agent that demonstrates the ability to solve complex problems through logical, digestible solutions that deliver key value to our stakeholders. Additionally, this individual must be comfortable communicating to all levels of the organization as well as inside and outside the organization. Skills that are foundational to the success of this role include, but are not limited to, communication, analytical, problem solving, process modelling, facilitation, elicitation, scope management, leadership and agile mindset.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

 •    Act as a partner to both the business and the technology teams
•    Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in depth

understanding of current state (i.e., legacy system) and future state
•    Identify product team dependencies and plan for resolution
•    Work cross-functionally to analyze and define key stakeholder business

needs
•    Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration

analysis, and data flow design
•    Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog

grooming.
•    Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals
•    Build high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum

team to refine user stories
•    Provide requirement and design support to scrum team
•    Support development of user interface requirements and design by collabo

rating with UI/UX tools and teams
•    Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results veri

fication
•    Assist in building cross-team collaboration and define acceptance criteria

for integrated components
•    Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories

•    Assists in developing and maintaining policies, standards, guidelines and

documentation to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the

enterprise

Supervisory Responsibilities:

•    Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.
 

•    [Required] Experience in Agile and software development
•    [Required] 3+ years of experience in business system analysis or related ex

perience
•    [Required] Preferred business experience in clearinghouse activities
•    [Required] Flexibility working with remote teams in alternate time zones
•    [Required] Self-motivated and self-starting; working with little supervision

and picking up new and unfamiliar concepts
•    [Required] Experience using Confluence and Jira
•    [Required] Experience with process modeling tools such as Visio

Technical Skills:

•    [Required] Knowledge and/or vested interest in event driven applications,

streaming and batch analytics technologies
•    [Preferred] Knowledge and/or vested interest in cloud technologies; experi

ence working with AWS
•    [Required] Knowledge and/or vested interest in different data management

and visualization tools (SQL, Figma, Tableau, Business Objects, etc.)
•    [Required] Knowledge and/or vested interest in complex data analytics sup

ported by python and R
•    [Required] Knowledge of Business Analysis best practices including require

ments elicitation, solution evaluation, requirements analysis, gap analysis,

and requirements decomposition
•    [Required] Knowledge and/or vested interest in fundamental of virtual and

physical infrastructure provisioning, networking, and data storage

management

Education and/or Experience:

•    [Required] Bachelor’s degree
•    3+ years of experience
•    [Preferred] MBA/MS degree

Certificates or Licenses:

•    [Preferred] CCBA, CBAP, AAC, and/or any related certification

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction