Lead 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

Leads the business analysis process and those who are identifying business requirements for system solutions or improved processes that will increase efficiency and overall productivity. Recommends potential solutions that provide the most effective results for the enterprise. Recommends changes in procedures. Ensure the use of consistent team operating procedures.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Leads the effort in which the BSA group conducts business process analyses and needs assessments in an effort to align information technology solutions with business initiatives.

• Use Business Process Modeling techniques and tools to create business process models.

• Lead effort to develop new or revised processes or procedures in lieu of system development.

• Facilitates the elicitation of business and systems requirements, utilizing comprehensive understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.

• Provides leadership to analyze business unit requests and understand business requirements. Work with various technical staff members to determine possible solutions and communicate business and system impacts to IT and Operations staff.

• Prepare complex documentation for business and system requirements in various formats.

• Leads project teams that are developing or modifying highly complex information systems. Includes leading the analysis and documentation of business and system requirements.

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

• Participates in the Enterprise Architecture program. This may involve providing input as to how data is created, stored and used (re used) as it relates to our business processes.

• May use project management and program management methodologies to support a systems development methodology to meet project deliverables.

• May be responsible for instructing, directing, mentoring, and checking the work of other business systems analysts.  Plans, conducts and may supervise assignments.

Qualifications

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

• Minimum of 8 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