Senior Business Systems Analyst

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IT - Business Analysis

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Facilitate the business analysis process to identify business requirements for system solutions or improved processes that will increase efficiency and overall productivity.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Conduct business process analysis and needs assessments in an effort to align IT solutions with business initiatives.

• Prepares “as is” and “current state” documentation in written and graphical form (flows).

• Conduct requirements gathering activities, including workshops, interviews, and documentation reviews.

• Develop clear and comprehensive business requirements documents and user stories in various formats.

• Analyze business unit requests and collaborate closely with the technology team to translate business requirements into functional specifications. 

• Provide input into the design of system solutions to ensure alignment with business needs.

• Conducts research and analysis to quantify business opportunities and develops formal recommendations to management.

• Collaborate with project managers and cross-functional teams to achieve project goals.  Assist in project planning and execution deliverable plans. 

• Provide test scenarios or test criteria based on knowledge gained through business and systems analysis.  May provide approval or quality check on test plans, test matrix, and user testing.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of business processes and system configurations.

• Ensure requirement documentation aligns with organization standards and best practices.

• May develop and deliver training materials for end-users on new systems and processes.  Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting assistance to ensure user adoption.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/experience, preferably in IT or a business area discipline (i.e. accounting, investments, or marketing). 

• Minimum of 5 or more years of experience in business systems analysis. 

• 2-4 years of industry experience also preferred. 

• Two years of experience managing technical projects in a complex environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Basic knowledge of insurance company operations.  

• Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail. 

• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

• Ability to accept and manage changing priorities and addr