What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Systems Analyst - Asset Management position at Thrivent?
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Designing Solutions
Review, analyze & evaluate moderately complex business systems, applications, processes, data, and user needs
Refine user and functional requirements to guide development work
Create visual representations using diagrams, maps, and models to enhance analysis, understanding, and communication
Support 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 moderately complex test strategies, plans, and cases
Identify and communicate the root cause of issues and defects
Collaborate with team to resolve issues and defects
Maintain effective and efficient testing methods, tools, and procedures
Data Management
Maintain high standards of data quality and integrity
Participate in Asset Management’s Data Governance Strategy
Contribute to maturing data management practices
Conduct moderately complex data research and mining to support business decisions
Team Collaboration
Participate in product planning and implementation
Decompose work by creating user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria
Participate in team development, maturity, and accountability
Provide basic business expertise and analysis to solve problems and remove roadblocks
Collaboration with Stakeholders and Business Partners
Contribute to effective and efficient communication and interactions for your team with stakeholders and business partners
Build relationships with key stakeholders
Learn key business systems, applications, processes, and data.
Work with subject matter experts to understand, capture, and communicate moderately 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 moderately complex SQL queries
Driving Growth and Building Talent
Seek out opportunities to learn new techniques, approaches, and technology to enhance our product
Contribute to identifying and implementing best practices to drive continuous improvement
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
4-6 years of experience in the business system analyst field or related area
Technical expertise and strong understanding within multiple (3 ) functional areas
Moderate levels of analysis and independence
Solid working knowledge of systems design process and methodology as well as knowledge/use of systems tools including but not limited to Microsoft Office Suite
Familiarity with testing tools
Desired Job Qualifications:
Intermediate quality assurance/testing experience
Intermediate experience refining functional and user requirements
Basic Domain Expertise: Accounting, Investment/Asset Mgmt and related functions and data
Experience working in an agile environment, particularly on a Scrum Team
Intermediate 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.
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 $69,053.00 - $93,425.00 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 account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.
Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.
Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.
Salary : $69,053 - $93,425
