Business Analyst

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Job description

Axos:
Axos Clearing is a leading correspondent clearing firm serving independent broker-dealers in the retail, active-trading, and institutional markets. Axos Clearing also offers flexible custody solutions for Registered Investment Advisers (RIA) and is a subsidiary of Axos Financial publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AX" (NYSE: AX).

We bring together human insight and digital expertise to anticipate the needs of our customers. Our team members are innovative, technologically sophisticated, and motivated to achieve.

The Opportunity:
Axos Clearing is looking for a technical Business Analyst to support our software development team on complex, customer-facing integration and UX projects. Not only will you be a critical member of an innovative team, building large, complex systems using the latest technologies, but you will join a growing company that is focused on continuing that growth through investment in its software and its team members.

The Business Analyst plays an important role in the organization by performing several activities related to the company's PMO functions. This position will be primarily responsible, under limited supervision, for acting as the BA on various IT Agile initiatives in accordance with Axos' Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes. This role will be responsible for eliciting, documenting, communicating, and storing the functional requirements for projects.

The Role:
Coordinate the elicitation, specification, and validation of the functional requirements for the project with the business (including the creation of PBIs/user stories)

Conduct interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods

Clearly translate conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements

Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics

Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards

Use ADO (Azure DevOps) as a tool to document PBIs/user stories and acceptance criteria accurately

Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts as needed

Create test plans and scripts to validate that requirements are met, or work with QA to achieve the same as needed

Document and communicate enhancements and modifications of business requirements to stakeholders/team

Report their actual level of effort in the agreed upon time tracking system, Daptiv

Perform other duties as assigned

Are You A Fit? :
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, IT, Finance or related field, or equivalent experience

3+ years' as a Business Analyst with implementation experience in complex environments

Experience working in the securities/clearing industry

Experience with Agile/SCRUM project methodologies

Knowledge of all phases within the SDLC and experience managing or working with IT software development projects

Ability to gather requirements on multiple, complex projects simultaneously and manage competing priorities

Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Independent, self-starter with the demonstrated ability to learn/adapt to new technologies and techniques

Ability to effectively prioritize, lead, and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

Knowledge of Daptiv, Tableau, and Azure DevOps

Apply directly for consideration as we are not using any outside agencies for any of our openings:
Pre-Employment Drug Test:

All offers are contingent upon the candidate successfully passing a credit check, criminal background check, and pre-employment drug screening, which includes screening for marijuana. Axos Bank is a federally regulated banking institution. At the federal level, marijuana is an illegal schedule 1 drug; therefore, we will not employ any person who tests positive for marijuana, regardless of state legalization.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Axos Bank is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.

Job Functions and Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to sit for extended periods of time. Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard and mouse, calculator, telephone, copiers, etc.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.