Senior Business Analyst

Description

Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Business Management Office (“BMO”) within the Office of the CIO at Huntington Bank. The BMO currently supports certain verticals within Technology, but over time, will support all verticals to provide the CIO with a full landscape of the business operations of Technology. As the BMO grows to support all of technology, existing processes and reporting must be improved upon and automated to scale and be repeatable, where able. The BMO seeks to hire this critical role to reinforce the existing team with both leadership and delivery of existing and routine deliverables while also looking for efficiency gains to scale.

The ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of experience with analysis in both Finance and Operations, preferably within a financial services organization or within a technology line of business supporting a financial services enterprise. This individual will work closely with Technology teams and stakeholder groups like Finance and Accounts Payable, among others, to deliver routine operational reporting while improving the underlying reporting structures to drive BMO team efficiency. As the candidate grows, they will move from an individual contributor role to a lead role within the team. The candidate will need to have a strong background in Tableau and PowerBI, and familiarity with ServiceNow.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage business analysis efforts for Technology, specifically expense management and budgeting.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Finance and Technology teams) to review new budget and approval to spend requests, to ensure alignment to existing financials:
• Able to offer guidance and best practices while collaborating; requires strong executive presence.
• Facilitate meetings, presentations, and updates for senior management and other key stakeholders. Able to lead by influencing these stakeholder groups.
• Very detail oriented.
• Manage and update budget items throughout the year; able to analyze and understand changes and impacts based on movement in the budget.
• Assist BMO team lead(s) by providing support and oversight to junior team members.
• Ability to query databases, perform data validation, and troubleshoot reporting anomalies.
• Act as a point of contact for the BMO, ensuring excellent customer service to internal stakeholders while balancing efficiency.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment while understanding the underlying risks to help re-prioritize work.
• Able to create new business processes and continuously improve upon existing processes, reports, and methodologies to increase efficiency and quality of deliverables.
• Ability to be detail-oriented but also understand and communicate the key messages hidden in the data to face off with various Technology leaders.
  
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 4 to 8 years of related experience
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders; ability to draw out key messages from the data while tying the data back to business needs of the Technology team – identifying the ‘so what’.
• Strong data analysis experience and knowledge of expense management and budgeting processes.
• Able to lead and coach team members.
• Critical thinker with strong organizational skills and detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple efforts concurrently while ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and work independently.
• Project planning and management, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge and/or Experience in waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience in a Business Analyst role performing the listed responsibilities, including experience with the following artifacts is desirable:
• Eliciting and documenting functional requirements and use cases
• Producing process flows using Visio
• Demonstrable technical skills and ability to learn technology
• Experience facilitating group sessions to gather requirements with ability to ask relevant questions to drill into the details
• Experience tracking and driving deliverables to completion
• Preferably local to Columbus, OH or Dallas, TX.
  
  
  

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Yes

Workplace Type

Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Huntington will not sponsor applicants for this position for immigration benefits, including but not limited to assisting with obtaining work permission for F-1 students, H-1B professionals, O-1 workers, TN workers, E-3 workers, among other immigration statuses. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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