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Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Department: Conversion Team

Reports to: Project manager

Job Type: Full-Time

FLSA status: Exempt

ELCO’s Expectations for All Employees

As an ELCO employee you will be responsible for understanding, practicing, and promoting ELCO’s Purpose Statement.

ELCO will cultivate, nurture, and enhance long standing relationships with insurance professionals and policyholders by being a trusted partner providing tailored solutions to achieve financial goals.
Job Summary

Our Business Analyst will facilitate assigned projects by serving as a liaison between users and developers, setting and communicating goals, and evaluating and refining results. Their duties include analyzing financial reports, market research and operating procedures, strategizing ideas to improve business operations and meeting with company executives and other stakeholders to provide suggestions based on their analysis.

Job Responsibilities

  • Elicit requirements by the use of interviews, workflow analysis, requirements workshops, and surveys to provide business process descriptions, business requirements, use cases, and user stories.

  • Collaborate with project team members (developers, architects, product owners) to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.

  • Perform analysis of potential solutions against business requirements and financial impact to identify the best solution for the business.

  • Actively engages with the client community (internal and external) throughout all stages of project lifecycle, including business requirement elicitation through implementation.

  • Can translate business needs into project requirements.

  • Supports quality assurance through QA team collaboration and project team validation.

  • Act as a facilitator for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with the client, third party vendors or other testers that use the product leveraging acceptance criteria defined with the business partner. Collaborate with supported business units to define project milestones, requirements, and define solutions.

  • Facilitates the PMO, ensuring the right capabilities are encompassed in the project team and scope.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Success Factors

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

  • Detail-oriented and possesses exceptional organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills.

  • Proven track record in working across departmental lines.

  • Experience, comfort level and success working in an agile environment.

  • Ability to adapt to change, learn quickly and to be able to creatively solve new problems.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree in business or related field or an MBA.

  • 3-5 years’ experience in business analysis, financial services preferred.

  • UAT experience

  • Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.

  • Advanced technical skills.

  • Project management experience, a plus

  • Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.

  • A track record of following through on commitments.

  • Experience leading and developing top-performing teams.

  • A history of leading and supporting successful projects.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

*Physical demands: Constant use of both hands, arms reaching handling/ grasping/fingering while keyboarding, using phone, calculator, and other office equipment, writing instructions, filing and performing other administrative duties.

Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

*Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.


Benefits

  • Competitive Pay

  • Company contributions towards employee and dependent health, dental and life insurance plans

  • Paid time off, PTO

  • 401K Contribution

  • Tuition Assistance

  • Will evolve into a hybrid work environment

  • 37-hour work week

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