Sr. Business Analyst

About This Job:
As the Sr. Business Analyst, you will dig deep into a specific business area and help define the details of how to drive business results through technology. Work on a cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, designers and subject matter experts in an agile methodology to deliver on outcomes.
What You'll Do:

• Business Expertise: Provide deep expertise in at least one business area or domain with a broad understanding of business and domains surrounding the main focus.
• Articulate this knowledge as an expert at the department level.
• May be called on to provide insight at the enterprise level to provide detailed analysis.
• Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Independently assess and document current state across multiple processes, business areas and domains while consulting and mentoring other Business Analysts.
• Think strategically in understanding business drivers to define "target state" solutions.
• Gather Requirements: Lead requirement gathering for larger efforts and across multiple business domains or from other business analysts.
• Author User Stories and/or Features: Author user stories and/or features independently with medium to high complexity and sometimes across multiple teams.
• Act as a subject matter expert throughout the development process as needs arise.
• Test Plan Reviews: Support solution delivery by coordinating and facilitating the business test planning and test execution by authoring, participating in, and ensuring business sign-off of testing processes for medium and large efforts.
• Leadership: Work independently and may coordinate work for others and/or provide mentorship.
• May provide business direction, guidance, and decisions to development and delivery teams.
• Project Management: Use advanced project management skills to lead, complete and advance work.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree.
• 4-5 Years Prior Experience demonstrating business analysis.
• Knowledge and skillset to position themselves as the communications expert and go to resource for key information and decisions making.
• Domain expertise via previous internships or similar roles in the past.
• Certifications demonstrating mastery of role specific competencies.
• Deep familiarity of agile & scrum development environments.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

What Sets You Apart:

• Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
• User Story: Translates requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases around a product and communicates them effectively.
• Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality: Assists and applies problem solving methods to understand the fundamental reasons of faults and problems; makes timely, data-driven decisions by understanding the probability of success, identifying customer risks, gathering business requirements, and developing value statements.
• Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them.
• Technical & Digital Acumen: Leverages knowledge and approaches of digital products and technologies to solve problems, complete tasks and accomplish goals. Demonstrates effective adaptability to new and emerging technologies.
• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
• Process Mindset: Demonstrates ability to define processes to organize people, activities, and milestones. Understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work-flow; creates metrics to measure success. Identifies opportunities for synergy and integration where others can't. Simplifies complex processes and produces more out of fewer resources.

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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$89,360.00
Pay Range - End:
$134,040.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$98,320.00 USD - $147,480.00 USD
Structure 115:
$102,800.00 USD - $154,200.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
Skills
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Escalation Tracking (NM) - Advanced, Customer Analysis (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Client Advocacy (NM) - Advanced, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Solution Design Oriented Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Competitive Benchmarking (NM) - Intermediate, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate, Product Lifecycle (NM) - Intermediate, Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Intermediate, User Story (NM) - Advanced, Process Mindset (NM) - Advanced
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We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups