Business Process Owner Lead

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

As a dedicated Business Process Owner Lead, you will lead planning for highly complex processes including problem definition, evaluation of requirements, design, testing, and implementation of business processes. You will be responsible to understand the process operating objectives, business rules, performance requirements, risks, and controls and interactions between dependent processes to minimize failures, eliminate redundancies, and control process performance necessary to achieve efficient, effective design and execution of the process You will be responsible to actively develop and drive alignment of process to overall experience strategy and vision.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: Chesapeake, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, Phoenix, AZ, Plano, TX, San Antonio, TX, or Tampa, FL.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

These positions will support Advanced Capabilities.

What you'll do:

• Develop business process deliverable program plans that align customer, business deliverable and enterprise strategy. Ensures alignment with customer and appropriate roadmap(s).

• Apply and maintain expert knowledge of the business and manages ongoing alignment and development of business deliverable processes and capabilities with business needs to materially change and improve business performance.

• Serve as strategic advisor bringing diverse perspective to leverage multiple ways of thinking while developing end-user focused process solution.

• Guide and influence process re-engineering and technology implementation to enable process redesign and innovation. Lead the overall management of process performance by developing control limits, monitoring key performance indicators, and informing stakeholders of any deficiencies, improvements, operational risks issues, etc. and drives collaborative efforts to ensure process delivers against requirements.

• Identify, own, execute, enhance, and align controls to mitigate operational and compliance risks as it pertains to owned processes as it pertains to owned processes.

• Collect and consolidate demand and identify opportunities by business portfolio, vertically within the business unit and/or horizontally across the enterprise. 

• Review, advise, and develop communication plans for customers and internal stakeholders and ensures communications are in alignment with overall strategy.

• Ensure alignment between internal stakeholders and customers across all business process projects and services using proactive communication and engagement strategies.

• Utilize data and analytics to deliver insight into customer and business process performance and shares best practices with overall team.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluates business processes to lead continuous process improvement efforts.

• Lead solution development including business case / benefits substantiation and drive business requirements for process improvement initiatives. 

• Provide mentorship and guidance support for team and applicable business partners.

• Plan and design business processes and make recommendations and changes in order to improve and support business systems and activities and/or to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency.

• Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree: OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• 8 years business process execution/knowledge/experience, consulting, and/or process engineering/optimization.

• Experience in successfully applying quality management, process improvement, and problem-solving tools and methodologies.

• Experience in implementing and sustaining change/improvements (change champion).

• Extensive hands-on experience with Process Mapping and Modeling and creating and validating process documenta