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As a 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. This position provides an excellent opportunity to grow in the field of business analysis, quality assurance, and software development, and gain experience working with both technical and business teams.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Designing Solutions

+ Review, analyze & evaluate moderately complex business systems, applications, processes, data, and user needs

+ Ref ine 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 Strateg y

+ 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

+ D ecompose work by creating user stories , tasks , and acceptance criteria

+ Participate in team development , maturity, and accountability

+ Provide basic business expertise and analysis to solve problem s 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

+ Creat e and execut e moderately complex SQL queries

Driving Growth and Building Talent

+ Seek out opportunities to learn new techniques, approaches, and technology to enhance our p roduct

+ 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 impact s of decisions

+ Action Oriented – When you see something that need s 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 E xpertise: Accounting , Investment/ Asset Mgmt and related functions and d ata

+ Experience working in an a gile environment, particularly on a Scrum Team

+ Intermediate SQL knowledge and experience

+ Experience with tool s :

+ 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 Monday s , Tuesday s , 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 $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 [email protected] or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.

At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given. At our heart, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our customers. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow.

For over 100 years, Thrivent has been helping people build their financial futures and live more generous lives. Today, it’s a Fortune 500 company that offers a full range of expert financial solutions, serving more than 2 million customers, as well as the communities in which they live and work.

Thrivent fosters a diverse workforce to serve our diverse clientele, reflecting a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. If you’re intrigued about our work and the possibility of becoming part of it, we invite you to visit Thrivent.com to learn more. You won’t just build a career; you’ll be part of an organization focused on growing, innovating, and serving.