What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Solutions Analyst position at Assurity?
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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
40% Leads and owns solution design and cross-functional Initiatives, which includes:
- Evaluating business challenges and opportunities and defining clear, practical solution approaches, with accountability for solution outcomes.
- Leading cross-functional initiatives such as product implementations, system enhancements, and operational improvements.
- Facilitating discussions across all stakeholders to drive alignment and decision-making.
- Defining scope, approach, and success criteria for initiatives and maintaining accountability for achieving intended outcomes.
- Challenging existing processes and assumptions to design simpler, more effective solutions and improve end-to-end outcomes.
- Partnering with leadership to translate strategic priorities into actionable solutions and deliverable plans.
25% Defines business system direction and solution approach, which includes:
- Establishing how systems should support business processes, workflows, and user experience.
- Defining platform usage approaches, configuration direction, and enhancement priorities for key systems, including document generation, enrollment, and sales support platforms.
- Partnering with technical resources to translate solution designs into system specifications and implementation plans.
- Ensuring alignment between business needs, operational workflows, and system capabilities.
- Providing system and integration perspective to inform solution decisions and avoid downstream impacts.
25% Supports process and workflow design across functions, which includes:
- Partnering with stakeholders to provide input on workflow design, particularly where systems, data, and integrations are involved.
- Ensuring solutions align with business objectives and operational workflows, with accountability for how solutions perform across teams.
- Recommending approaches that balance ease of doing business externally with internal discipline and scalability.
- Bringing a cross-functional perspective to ensure solutions work effectively across upstream and downstream teams.
- Influencing decision-making across stakeholders and leadership levels without direct authority, building alignment and momentum for change.
10% Performs other functions as assigned, which includes:
- Participating in company-wide committees and teams.
- Contributing to special projects and other tasks.
The list of essential functions is not exhaustive and may be substituted as necessary.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS
- Five or more years' experience in business analysis, systems, operations, product or project-based roles, with demonstrated responsibility for leading cross-functional initiatives and developing solution recommendations.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate options and recommend solutions.
- Ability to facilitate discussions, challenge assumptions, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
- Understanding how business processes and systems interact, including workflow and integration considerations.
- Professional oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to interact effectively and professionally with others.
- Effective planning, organizational, analytical, problem-solving, decision making, and negotiation skills.
- Talent required in values, work intensity, achiever, positivity, relationship, resourcefulness, persuasion, command, relationship-extension, and exactness.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
PHYSICAL AND WORK SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS
- May require work beyond standard hours to fulfill job duties.
- Hybrid position based in Lincoln, NE. Requires three days per week onsite and provides a hybrid schedule with two remote workdays.