Sr Business Systems Analyst

As a Senior Business Systems Analyst, you will support systems, applications, reports, and data for middle and back office operations of Thrivent's Asset Management Division. You will join a Scrum Team that includes Business Systems Analysts, Application Engineers, a Product Owner, and a Scrum Master. This is an influential role with high visibility working closely with business partners, requiring strong collaboration, business analysis, ownership, and quality assurance acumen to effectively support Mutual Fund Accounting's business priorities, deliver value, and drive impactful change

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Designing Solutions

• Review, analyze & evaluate complex business systems, applications, processes, data, and user needs
• Define and refine user and functional requirements to guide development work
• Create complex and detailed visual representations using diagrams, maps, and models to enhance analysis, understanding, and communication
• Ensure that solutions align with business objectives and user needs
• Drive change that is focused on maximizing business value and meeting user needs
• Accountable for compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations

Quality Assurance

• Design and execute complex test strategies, plans, and cases
• Identify and communicate the root cause of issues and defects
• Lead efforts to resolve issues and defects
• Establish and maintain effective and efficient testing methods, tools, and procedures

Data Management

• Establish and maintain high standards of data quality and integrity
• Act as a Technical Data Steward as part of Asset Management's Data Governance Strategy
• Contribute to maturing data management practices
• Conduct complex data research and mining to support business decisions

Team Collaboration

• Actively contribute to product planning and implementation
• Lead developers in defining and decomposing work by creating user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria
• Drive team development, maturity, and accountability
• Provide advanced business expertise and analysis to solve problems and remove roadblocks

Collaboration with Stakeholders and Business Partners

• Drive effective and efficient communication and interactions for your team with stakeholders and business partners
• Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Actively develop a deep understanding of key business systems, applications, processes, and data
• Work with subject matter experts to understand, capture, and communicate complex business and user requirements

Additional Business Support

• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation to intake, diagnose, and support resolution of business issues
• Build and support business reporting
• Create and execute complex SQL queries

Driving Growth and Building Talent

• Seek out opportunities to learn new techniques, approaches, and technology to enhance our product
• Actively identify and implement best practices to drive continuous improvement
• Provide coaching and training for teammates to promote growth and development
• Partner with Scrum Master to align on team focuses, approaches, and messaging.

Desired Traits:

• Collaborative - You can win the trust of others and help your team problem solve
• Growth Mindset - You are open to new and better ways of doing things
• Critical Thinking - You apply critical thinking to identify, understand, and manage key details
• Adaptable - You can adjust to changing situations and priorities
• Analytical - You can gather information and drive to solutions
• Change Influencer - You can work with your team and partners to enact change
• Big Picture Thinking - You understand the end-to-end process and data flows through the organization and the impacts of decisions
• Action Oriented – When you see something that needs to be done, you take ownership and do it

Required Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 6-8+ years of experience in the Business System Analyst field or related area
• Technical expertise and advanced understanding across many functional areas
• Advanced levels of analysis and independence
• Advanced working knowledge of systems design process and methodology, as well as knowledge/use of systems tools, including but not limited to Microsoft Office Suite, and other applications/software as required
• Solid understanding of testing tools

Desired Job Qualifications:

• Proficient quality assurance/testing experience
• Proficient experience creating and refining functional and user requirements
• Proficient Domain Expertise: Accounting, Investment/Asset Mgmt industry and related functions and data
• Experience working in an agile environment, particularly on a Scrum Team
• Ability to set standards and best practices and provide training for others
• Ability to provide team oversight to maintain a high-quality development process
• Proficient SQL knowledge and experience
• Experience with tools:
• Jira, Xray, Miro, Visio, Microsoft 365 (including PowerBI, Excel, Power Query, Access, SharePoint)

Additional Information

• This position requires you to work on-site in Appleton, WI or Minneapolis, MN on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.

Pay Transparency

Thrivent's long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $89, $121,621.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings