VP, Senior Business Analyst

At Axiom Bank, we encourage you to aim for the sky and leverage your expertise and passion to excel. We are a growing, dynamic organization – this is an exciting time to get on board!

We believe in the value of promoting a healthy work/life balance and are committed to recognizing the role everyone plays in our ongoing success. We offer the following benefits to our Full Time Employees:

• 12 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 4% Match on our 401(k)
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• 100% Company Paid Life, AD&D Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Business and Functional Requirements: Lead discovery sessions and workshops with stakeholders across the bank to gather, validate, and document business, functional, operational, and reporting requirements for strategic initiatives and enterprise projects.
• Current- and Future-State Process Analysis: Document existing processes, pain points, controls, and dependencies; define future-state workflows that improve efficiency, strengthen controls, and support the bank’s strategic objectives.
• Gap, Impact, and Risk Assessment: Evaluate differences between current processes and target solutions, identify business impacts, dependencies, risks, and issues, and partner with stakeholders to develop recommendations and action plans.
• Business Documentation: Translate business needs into clear, traceable requirements, use cases, user stories, process maps, business rules, and decision documentation for use by project teams, technology partners, and testers.
• Systems Implementation Support: Support business-facing activities for system implementations, enhancements, process improvements, and operational change initiatives, including requirements validation, solution reviews, readiness planning, and post-implementation support.
• Testing and Validation: Develop and coordinate business test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria; support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, and validation of end-to-end workflows and controls.
• Stakeholder and Vendor Coordination: Serve as a liaison among business stakeholders, project leadership, technology teams, and third-party vendors to drive decisions, resolve issues, and maintain alignment on scope, priorities, timelines, and readiness.
• Operational Readiness and Change Support: Support organizational readiness through procedure updates, training coordination, business readiness checklists, communication of process changes, and implementation support for impacted teams.
• Governance and Reporting: Maintain organized, audit-ready project documentation including requirements, process maps, action items, risks, assumptions, issues, and status updates for leadership and governance forums.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve controls, enhance the customer and employee experience, and support ongoing operational and strategic improvements across the bank.
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Supervision of Personnel

• None

Working Conditions

• Normal office environment; extensive use of computer; lifting up to 30lbs. The incumbent will be expected to be able to work Monday through Friday; occasional evening and weekend work may be required.

Travel

• Occasional travel may be required based on project needs.

Qualifications Summary

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

Experience

• Minimum of seven years of experience as a Business Analyst in banking or financial services, including experience supporting large-scale system implementations, process improvement initiatives, or enterprise transformation efforts. Experience wo