Sr Business Systems Analyst-Technology

The Sr. Business Systems Analyst position is within Field Administration & Banking Systems; with a focus on the Field Administration and Compensation Capabilities: People, Position, Location, Organization, Regulatory, and Hierarchy Management; Credential Management; Compensation Management – Product, Non-Account, Advisor, Leader, & Financial Institution Compensation; Client Assignment and Practice Relationship Management; and Information Delivery Management. The person filling this position will be responsible for delivering on their own project assignments, developing others, and evolving and delivering on strategy roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, document and manage business and user requirements (both functional and non-functional) to effectively recommend technology solutions that best address the requirements.  Identify potential solutions for the business and provide input to issues or risks (through solid knowledge of the business and user requirements). Identify project interdependencies and communicate requirement/scope issues and participate in driving them to resolution for inclusion in the functional specifications.  
• Translate business and user requirements in to detailed system requirements for the IT organization and manage all changes to the source documents. Ensure appropriate bi-directional tracing of project modifications back to business and user requirements. Complete project work objects and deliverables using Ameriprise Quality Measurement Systems (AQMS) standards. Facilitate walk-through of project deliverables. Assist with the development of the testing strategy - plan thorough requirements testing.
• Demonstrate expert level knowledge in all systems, processes and data relating to the assigned business or project. Leverage domain expertise and analyst practice expertise to provide the most effective solutions to the business partners in the most efficient means possible. Select appropriate analysis techniques and tools (process modeling, use cases, etc.) for each project. Educate business partners on systems capabilities and the feasibility of developing specific solutions. 
• Leverage technical knowledge and business acumen to manage effective working relationships with technology teams and business partners at management and end user levels.  Work effectively in a team environment to ensure that solution delivery is on time, within cost estimates and meets business needs.  Negotiate technical and non-technical solutions that both satisfy the business users and conform to the technical architecture.  Prepare estimates of Business System Analyst work efforts for assigned projects.
• Complete all support documentation on assigned projects, including creating and updating all user and technical procedures/manuals, operational support documentation and archival of all related project documentation.  Define and monitor all implementation tasks such as the production check-out process, including review of reports, data files and Online screens to ensure technical solutions perform according to the specifications and meet defined business requirements.
• Actively champion and contribute to the continuous improvement of business systems analysis best practices, using innovative ideas to increase effectiveness of the overall analyst organization.  Provide subject matter expertise in areas including strategy/approach, requirements gathering, process modeling, use cases and other areas of expertise based on established business analysis tools and techniques.  Proactively mentor others in the business analyst practitioner community.   

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, similar field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience required.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in business and functional requirements elicitation, translation and documentation.
• Expert level analysis skills including ability to identify patterns, potential issues and then translate those into functional and test requirements.
• Expert level understanding of business functional areas and management issues as well as the IT organizations systems and capabilities.
• Knowledge of and ability to effectively use the appropriate modeling methodologies and tool-sets, requirements management methodologies and tool-sets, requirements visualization methods and tool-sets, and artifact versioning tools.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Insurance, Annuity and Brokerage Products and system knowledge
• 2-3 years testing experience and knowledge of Ameriprise systems and linkages.
• Certifications Preferred: CSPO.
• Experience working with