Senior Business Analyst
Longbridge Financial
2021-12-03 08:53:56
Mahwah, New Jersey, United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Consulting & Corporate Strategy
Job description
Company Description
Longbridge Financial, LLC (LBF) is an innovative company committed to responsibly helping senior homeowners reshape their financial future to improve their retirement. Working together with other reputable companies in the financial services industry, we are moving into exciting new directions for the reverse mortgage business and anticipate rapid expansion offering many opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Recently recognized as an Industry Changemaker, Longbridge CEO Chris Mayer looks at the industry differently and values employees at all levels who drive our company forward. In fact, we are now a top 3 reverse mortgage lender.
Why work with us?
At Longbridge Financial, "We do the right thing" is more than a mantra, it's our guarantee. We want to attract the best and brightest-that's why we're committed to giving our employees the support they need and the respect they deserve. We offer competitive compensation packages and benefits, as well as a strong marketing and operations foundation. Join us for a rewarding career with remarkable growth potential. Ready to be changemaker and be a part of a team to help propel Longbridge to number one?
Longbridge Financial is looking for a highly motivated and collaborative Senior Business Analyst (BA) with experience working on projects of varying complexity to join our team. This BA will need to work with the project team and various stakeholders to complete the necessary project documentation to help define and implement assigned projects. This role will act as a business and technology liaison for stakeholders and will capture requirements necessary for the business to meet its goals.
This role requires the ability to quickly understand complex business operations and recommend solutions to improve general business processes and planning
Job Description
- Collaborates with the lines of business, technical partners, and leadership to capture and define scope, requirements, and use cases
- Conducts gap analysis and identifies opportunities for process automation
- Works with the project team throughout the lifecycle
- Gathers definitions of success and users' needs
- Translates high-level business requirements into functional specifications and manages changes to approved specifications
- Supports the development of user stories, test scenarios and test cases
- Analyzes and captures potential process improvements and creates detailed process maps
- Assists Project Managers in development of project plans and reporting, as needed
- Conducts feasibility studies to assess cost/benefit, efficiency, and technical viability of solutions to business problems
- Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience
- Assists in business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology
- Collaborates with technical partners and lines of business in systems development and design
- Supports all EPMO activities including process analysis, system analysis, reporting, and measuring success
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Two to four years of empirical or academic experience conducting business analysis and writing business/functional requirements required
- Two to four years of empirical or academic experience analyzing business processes and organizations preferred
- Two years of empirical or academic experience acting as a continuous improvement resource preferred
Education:
- 4-year college degree required; Business degree preferred
- Master's degree preferred
Skills:
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio required
- Experience with Smartsheet, MS Project or similar project management tools
- Understands iterative application development fundamentals
- Established competency in waterfall and familiarity with agile project management
- Able to quickly assimilate to new processes, technology, and/or applications
- Possesses excellent interpersonal, oral, analytical, written, and problem-solving skills
- Works well with people at all organizational levels
- Ability to effectively communicate complex ideas
Other:
- Business Analyst certification preferred
- CAPM preferred
- PMP preferred
- Mortgage background preferred
Additional Information
- Full benefits
- 401(k) with company match.
- Paid time off.
- Working in a growing and dynamic industry
- LBF is an EOE