Business Analyst - Corporate Finance

This is a hybrid opportunity in Miami Lakes, FL.

SUMMARY: The Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for working closely with business counterparts to identify technology solutions in business functional areas and help implement those solutions that help meet regulatory requirements and support the achievement of strategic goals. The BA is primarily responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and documenting business requirements for purposes of getting IT to understand what the business units need. The BA also acts as a liaison between IT and the business line on assigned projects/initiatives and works closely with Corporate Finance leadership, Project Managers, and/or Application Delivery Managers to keep stakeholders informed of progress. Coordinates test plans to meet project requirements and helps drive user acceptance testing to produce quality deliverables.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties and special projects may be assigned.

Requirements and Technical Analysis (30%):

• Analyzes and define user requirements to develop solutions that meet the strategic requirements of the business unit.
• Conducts discovery sessions to gather requirements from all stakeholders.
• Documents current state and future state process workflows.
• Creates a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for the business unit(s).
• Proactively collaborates with the business counterparts to identify potential process improvements and enhancements that increase efficiencies and decrease costs.
• Translates business needs into design documents and specifications.
• Prepares detailed specifications from which IT can program application solutions.
• Works with vendors on configuring third party solutions to meet the process needs of the Business Unit.
• Works with Corporate Finance and Information Technology teams to efficiently identify and coordinate resolution of issues.

Business Analyst Execution (20%):

• Provides both strategic and detailed support to the Director of Special Projects on significant projects and initiatives.
• Assists with delivery of projects/initiatives according to agree upon timeline, budget and scope.
• Works with the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) team and act as testing coordinator for key projects/initiatives as needed.
• Defines, documents the test plan, and coordinates user acceptance testing to help ensure requirements traceability and delivery of a quality solution.

Project Governance (20%):

• Prepares project artifacts as required by the Project Management Office Standard Operating Procedures to ensure satisfactory internal and external audits.
• Ensures timeliness of document approvals by stakeholders and accessibility of project artifacts on the project's SharePoint site.
• Completes required documentation for each assigned project & initiative on a timely basis, including Business Requirements Documents, File Conversion and Technical Design Specifications, Test Plans, and Process Flow diagrams.
• Ensures requirements inventory is properly maintained on SharePoint and validate traceability to testing. Monitor for proper change management of requirements.
• Ensures acceptance criteria is met prior to go live deployment of new solutions or enhancements.
• Identifies and shares best practices to grow the Business Analyst community of practice.

Industry Knowledge and Business Analysis Skills (15%):

• Develops and maintain appropriate banking industry knowledge of common financial services concepts, practices and procedures.
• Develops and maintain of project management concepts, practices and procedures, and knowledge of business analysis tools and techniques. Obtain and maintain appropriate certifications.

Teamwork and Leadership Skills (15%):

• Establishes and maintain business line partnerships.
• Demonstrates ability to guide teams toward the achievement of goals.
• Becomes the IT subject matter expert for solutions and processes supporting the business unit(s).
• Acts as the IT specialist responsible for engaging in assigned department planning activities to better understand business needs and assess feasibility of new solutions.
• Adheres to and complies with applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.).
• Adheres to Bank policies and procedures and completes required training.
• Identifies and reports suspicious activity.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree OR equivalent required.

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of business analysis experience (eg data analysis, process mapping, stakeholder management) required.
• 3+ years of banking experience, with added experience in Corp Finance &/or Data Analytics preferred.
• Experience in requirements gathering and development of business requirement documents and functional requirement specifications required.
• Experience with Agile and waterfall software development techniques required.
• Experience with Workday Financials and/or Adaptive Planning preferred.
• Experience with vendor management preferred.
• Experience in Quality Assurance, test plans and test coordination preferred.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Six Sigma Green Belt preferred.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred.
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) preferred.
• PMI Professional in Business Analysis preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to independently facilitate requirement elicitation sessions with business users required.
• Strong skills with workflow or data flow diagramming tools (e.g. Lucidchart, Visio, etc.) required.
• Critical thinking, problem solving and independent execution skills required
• Ability to grasp new concepts quickly required.
• Above-average facilitation, collaboration and relationship management skills required.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Candidates residing in locations within BankUnited's footprint may be given preference.