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Senior Project Analyst
- US Bank (Minneapolis, MN)
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At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
Job Description
Job description:
We are seeking an experienced and driven Business Analyst within U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, Inc.’s Business Solutions team to execute on the portfolio of initiatives. This role acts as the bridge between business and operations stakeholders, technology teams, and external vendors to ensure solutions meet the needs of USBAM, our clients, and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of business processes and technology that support the asset management business, is proficient with agile and waterfall methodologies, and is an analytical thinker with the ability to translate overarching goals into concrete requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
+ **Requirements Gathering and Prioritization**
+ Leads the discovery, business analysis and requirements elicitation
+ Performs detailed analysis, & captures current state, future state, and gap analysis.
+ Conducts business data analysis – collects, identifies, analyzes, and interprets business data using various kinds of techniques. Interprets and documents the findings of data analysis to support the decision-making process.
+ Elicits functional and non-functional business requirements from stakeholders, writes user stories, and ensures traceability to solution-design and development.
+ Acts as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the development teams, ensuring clear communication of requirements and expectations.
+ Identifies business needs and translates them into actionable requirements and evolving improvements.
+ Prioritizes features and enhancements based on business value, regulatory requirements, and technical feasibility.
+ Collaborates with other product or project teams to map, reduce, and manage dependencies, and cross-team planning.
+ Works with project management to provide input to project plans, schedules, and milestone activities.
+ **Performance Monitoring and Optimization**
+ Monitors the performance and adoption of changes, gathering feedback from users to drive continuous improvement.
+ Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and user experience.
+ Participates in the process of determining KPIs and metrics to influence decisions.
+ **Stakeholder Engagement**
+ Builds strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors
+ Communicates effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, collaborating across different teams and leadership levels
+ **Testing and Validation**
+ Coordinates test planning and execution through user acceptance
+ Ensures thorough testing is conducted on new features and enhancements
+ Validates that delivered solutions meet requirements and maintain high standards of accuracy and reliability.
Basic Qualifications
+ Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
+ Typically 10 or more years of related experience
Preferred Qualifications:
+ Experience in the financial services industry, with knowledge of asset management preferred.
+ Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
+ Thorough knowledge of project management.
+ Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and to analyze data.
+ Demonstrated leadership skills
+ Business Analysis Certification preferred
+ Proficiency with business process analysis and workflow documentation.
+ Flexibility to adapt business requirements and/or priorities based on changing business needs.
+ Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
_The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days._
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants) .
Benefits:
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):
+ Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
+ Basic term and optional term life insurance
+ Short-term and long-term disability
+ Pregnancy disability and parental leave
+ 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
+ Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
+ Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
+ Adoption assistance
+ Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
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The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $105,400.00 - $124,000.00
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
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