Senior Business Specialist

Job Posting End Date: July 27

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• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

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General Summary:

Colonial Life is looking for a Senior Business Specialist in Columbia, SC to support Underwriting and product development teams. This is the second level in a three-level career path. This position is primarily responsible for providing extensive system (automated and manual), processes, testing and project support for medium to large sized functional and/or cross-functional business area initiatives. The incumbent partners extensively with IT, other functional areas and the Program Office. The incumbent also mentors junior team members.

Please note, this role is available in only in Columbia, SC,  requiring a minimum of 3 days in the office.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Application/Technical/Process Support

• Directs/Leads the effort to identify, research and resolve complex problems.
• Ensures that a variety of solutions are analyzed and the appropriate solution is implemented.
• Ensures that production systems/processes are being monitored.
• Support the identification, analysis and documentation of complex System Change Requests that impact one or more systems or business units.
• Ensures that appropriate level of analysis has been conducted to develop requirements.  Partners with other functional areas and IT to help prioritize and implement system change request.

Subject Matter Expert

• Represents functional area on large functional/cross-functional projects which are highly complex to effectively communicate business needs.
• Actively participates in and partners with others on requirements elicitation sessions and other phases of the system development life cycle.
• Ensures that all the system development/enhancement work undertaken keeps the customer (end user) in mind.
• Support the documentation for the system and/or processes the business area owns/supports is comprehensive and adequately maintained.
• Assesses technical/process impact of making complex business changes.

Testing (System Change Request (SCR) and Projects)

• Manage testing for medium to large initiatives, within or outside of the functional area and with IT partners, ensuring testing is comprehensive in order to have high quality and minimize defects.
• Able to develop test timelines, test plans, test cases and management updates.
• Ensures that testing results are analyzed thoroughly, tracked, effectively documented and has proper signoff.
• Ability to think beyond the current system/process being tested and assesses impacts to other systems/process that integrate/touch the system/process being tested.

Business Initiatives

• Performs project coordination, extensive situational business analysis/problem solving and/or implementation support for large sized functional/cross-functional projects which have high degree of complexity.

Partnering and Communications