Senior Business Analyst - PMO (Project Management Office)

Hilltop Holdings is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst (Enterprise Data Specialization) in the PMO (Project Management Office). 
 

The Senior Business Analyst (Enterprise Data Specialization) in the PMO (Project Management Office) is responsible for delivering business value through successful elicitation, prioritization, documentation, and validation of requirements for software implementations and business process improvement efforts that support multiple business lines.  This role manages the business and technical requirements, user acceptance testing, training material development and delivery, and assists with facilitation of change management for medium to large projects.  From initiation to completion, the Senior Business Analyst is accountable for the business requirements, both general and data-specific, facilitation and delivery of quality project deliverables, and obtaining the appropriate stakeholder reviews and approvals. Critical success factors in this position include experience in data mining, data analysis, system integrations, and process flow mapping at Enterprise and non-enterprise business groups. Data, platforms, and regulation experience with wealth management, banking, or finance industries is desired. The successful candidate will also demonstrate the ability to manage stakeholder expectations, synthesize multiple organizations’ needs into a common requirement package, identify integration opportunities, control project scope, assist with facilitating business change management and communications, and escalate project risks and issues. This role will work on multiple projects at a time with varying levels of complexity.

• Effectively elicit, document, prioritize, validate, and align business and technical requirements with project goals and objectives for complex IT and business process projects ensuring scope management and collaboration with sponsors, team members, and cross-functional experts  
• Effectively foster dialogue and capture IT and Business requirements to support project milestones.
• Translate conversations into rich visuals illustrating business process flows, data diagrams, and requirement understanding 
• Foster productive working relationships and manage expectations with business & technical team members and project stakeholders
• Coach/mentor less experienced business analysts in alignment with Hilltop’s standards and best practices
•  Define the necessary data movement pathways and Transformation rules (ETL logic) needed to accomplish inter-system data sharing, reporting, and/or dashboarding
• Participate in creation of technical documentation, including but not limited to Technical Design Documentation, Source-to-Target Mappings, Data Flow Documents, and other requirements-related artifacts for user stories 
• Influence and validate technical designs to the functional requirements and business use cases captured in user stories, features, and epics surrounding the project
• Translate business vs technical concepts to cross-functional team members, both internal and external (contactor or vendor), in order to achieve project goals
• Use SQL or other data management tools for advanced querying, extraction and analysis of scalable, complex data sets
• Identify opportunities and provide recommendations for process improvements, leveraging actionable insights derived from KPIs, metrics, etc. 
• Lead requirement reviews and facilitate approvals with project stakeholders
• Collaborate with developers and 3rd party providers to ensure understanding of the requirements and assist with issue resolution and root cause analysis
• Facilitate user acceptance testing from creation of test scripts, stakeholder participation and completion through traceability and integration with quality assurance for tracking and validation of remediation
• Develop training and change management materials and facilitate training as appropriate for the project
• Ensure assigned project deliverables and milestones are completed on-time, within budget, and meet quality standards
• Organize BA work across multiple projects in order to achieve project delivery expectations and business benefits
• Escalate risks and issues promptly to the project manager
• Assist in the development, maintenance, and training of business analysis methodologies, techniques, best practices, and organizational standards 

• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Must be able to report to Hilltop Securities Tower @ 717