Senior Business Analyst - Pension
Company: Avenu Insights & Analytics
Location: Birmingham
Posted on: March 18, 2023
Job Description:
Job Description Job Summary:
- Responsible for analyzing customer requirements and the
analysis of information/data. Manages projects if required.
Provides input to improve overall efficiency and processes.
- The role holder is responsible for leading the effort to
understand the business needs and identify how best to meet those
needs. This includes working with the business and the technology
areas to gather requirements for development and management. The
role leads the effort to analyze, validate and document the
business and system requirements.
- Key facilitator within the IT organization, acting as a bridge
between the business and the IT groups, and is accountable for a
technology solution that supports the business request or
opportunity and is based on the enterprise architecture. This role
partners with the Architect during the initial stages of the
project/solution to ensure the accuracy of business cases and that
the solution will meet the business need.
- Designs, modifies and creates business processes that will be
used to implement the business transformation solutions. This is
done through research and fact-finding combined with a basic
understanding of applicable business processes, systems, and
industry requirements.
- Determines the process and requirements management methodology
practices. The role monitors the effort to ensure that the
methodology and quality standards are being met. Duties and
Responsibilities: Specific
- Multiple business processes, or sub-processes, spanning one or
more geographic regions and/or business units. Autonomy
- Has defined authority and responsibility for a significant area
of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects.
- Establishes organizational objectives and delegates
assignments.
- Accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and
subordinates. Influence
- Influences policy formation on contribution of specialization
to business objectives.
- Influences at level of division internally and influences
customer/suppliers and industry at senior management level.
- Decisions impact work of employing organizations, achievement
of organizational objectives and financial performance.
- Develops high-level relationships with customers suppliers and
industry leaders. Complexity
- Can absorb complex technical information and communicate
effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical
audiences.
- Is able to assess and evaluate risk and to understand the
implications of new technologies.
- Demonstrates clear leadership skills and the ability to
influence and persuade.
- Has a broad understanding of all aspects of information systems
and deep understanding of area(s) of specialization.
- Understands and communicates the role and impact of information
systems in the employing organization.
- Takes initiative to keep both own and subordinates skills up to
date and to maintain awareness of developments in the information
systems industry. General
- Recognized as an expert in own function
- Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends
solutions/best practices
- Decisions are guided by resource availability and functional
objectives
- Primarily domestic scope/accountability; may include some
international scope/accountability
- Progression to this level is typically restricted on the basis
of business requirement Primary Responsibilities
- Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine
requirements and specify effective business processes, through
improvements in information systems, data management, practices,
procedures, organization and equipment. Applies and monitors the
use of required modeling and analysis tools, methods and standards.
Conducts investigations at a high level for strategy studies,
requirements specifications and feasibility studies. Defines, plans
and justifies (in business terms) projects to develop/implement
automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
Key Tasks
- Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine
requirements, and specify effective business processes. Organizes
their implementation through improvements in information systems,
data management, practices, organization and equipment. Applies and
monitors the use of required modeling and analysis tools, methods
and standards in an intelligent and effective way.
- Co-operates with senior client and IS staff as required,
conducting investigations at a high level for strategy studies,
requirements specifications and feasibility studies. Maintains
technical awareness at a level where alternatives can be analyzed,
modeled and classified according to technical feasibility and
performance.
Utilizes business experience and skills to assess and advise on the
practicability of alternatives, marrying up technical limitations
with operational realities.
- Takes responsibility as needed for the detailed specification
and modeling of recommended solutions using resources, standards,
methods and tools as required. Maintains links with appropriate
counterparts within both software engineering and service delivery
functions and plays a full part in bringing systems to
implementation as detailed by organization policies and
methods.
- Applies available standards, methods and tools in an
intelligent and effective way, and produces a consistently high
standard of documentation of both a technical and a descriptive
nature.
Plans, arranges and controls meetings, workshops and relations with
client/user staff during system investigations and throughout
subsequent development work. Takes responsibility at a high level
for the proper conduct of such relations.
- Defines, plans and justifies (in business terms) projects to
develop/implement automated and non-automated components of new or
changed processes.
- Assists clients/users in defining acceptance tests for
automated systems, and takes responsibility for their proper
execution. Knowledge and Experience:
- A minimum of 10 years pension or benefit related
experience.
- A minimum of 5-7 years systems analyst experience.
- Exposure to systems / application development.
- Leadership / Management
- University degree or equivalent
- Designation or extensive experience / knowledge of the
following:
- Pension plan administration (DB and/or DC) (e.g. PPAC or CEBS
course - Pension Plans & Other Retirement Income
- Programs)
- Business Analyst Certification
- Travel will be required Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly motivated
- Team player
- Enthusiastic and high level of creative energy.
- Excellent interpersonal, facilitation/presentation and
negotiation skills.
- Advanced organizational, analytical and problem solving
skills
- Able to prioritize work, meet deadlines and perform well under
pressure.
- High integrity and commitment to quality.
- Adaptive to changing situations.
- Deals with ambiguity efficiently and makes sound
decisions.
- Demonstrates leadership through: challenging others to develop
as leaders while serving as a role model; proactively initiates,
develops, and maintains effective working relationships with team
members; generates enthusiasm among team members.
- Takes initiative and seeks responsibility.
- Demonstrates personal accountability / commitment for clients,
projects, tasks and responsibilities. Avenu Summary: Avenu provides
local governments with ways to achieve more predictable revenue
that supports growth, fuels modernization and ensures compliance
with mandated but underfunded programs. Avenus revenue enhancement
and administrative solutions find and recover license, permit and
other taxes that cities and counties struggle to collect. The
insights and improved fiscal posture enables governments to deliver
expected services and sustain a high quality of life for residents.
Avenu is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Selection for a position
will be made without regard to race, religion, national origin,
sex, political affiliation, marital status, non-disqualifying
physical handicap, and age. by Jobble
Keywords: Avenu Insights & Analytics, Birmingham , Senior Business Analyst - Pension, Professions , Birmingham, Alabama
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