Business Systems Analyst

Taylor Corporation is a dynamic, diversified company with big plans for the future ― and your career. We power our employees’ potential and strive to create opportunity and security for every member of the team. If you’re ready for something bigger ― more challenge, more variety, more pathways for professional growth ― we should talk. We’re passionate about our work, we believe there is always a better way, and we’re looking for people like you.

Ready to reach your potential? It’s time to look at Taylor.

Your Opportunity:

Venture Solutions, Inc, a Taylor Corporation company, is looking for a dynamic and self-motivated Business Systems Analyst to join their technology team in Ft. Worth, TX! In this role, you will be facilitating discussions with our clients and internal cross-functional teams to help develop detailed business and technical documentation to support software systems that integrate with complex data systems to build new solutions or modify existing customer solutions and products. It’s critical (and exciting) to our future! You would help us elicit and document requirements, communicate workflows, log issues, build training documentation/videos, and offer clarification to business users regarding IT solutions.

Work Authorization:
To be considered for the Taylor opportunities, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Your Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document requirements

• Facilitate requirements gathering and review sessions

• Bridge the gaps and serve as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution

• Understand and analyze workflows, identify inefficiencies, and recommend process improvements to optimize mortgage operations

• Translate business needs into clear and concise technical documents and functional specifications for developers; translate information and questions from developers into language stakeholders can understand

• Perform gap analysis of current state and desired end-state of an application

• Assess and validate solutions to ensure internal and external requirements are met throughout the development cycle

• Create and maintain artifacts for projects and system documentation, including workflow diagrams, spreadsheets, PDF mockups, training presentations, BRDs, and user guides

• Participate in project planning sessions, defining the scope of the project and defining the business requirements

• Design and execute test plans and participate in system testing

• Participation in R&D Team Meetings and prepare and/or edit meeting minutes, presentations and tables

• May be called upon as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for business partners, clients and/or the technical team for post deployment product support, relating to business process and workflow

• Work with project stakeholders to identify, document and validate requirements. Help to scope the system, identify potential areas of automation and reengineer the underlying business process

You Must Have:

• Superior communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas to a variety of stakeholders, business partners, and technical teams

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to handle changing priorities and multiple projects at the same time

• Ability to work collaboratively and build rapport with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail

• The initiative to take responsibility for understanding the problem, finding alternative approaches to troubleshoot or solve issues

• A Bachelor’s degree plus professional experience in the role of business analyst or systems analyst

• Knowledge of the fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of business analysis, project management, and client support

• The ability to respect and maintain confidential information

• Experience with creating various technical artifacts – process maps, business requirement document, gap analysis document, etc

• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office product suite (Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, etc.)

• A growth-oriented mindset that never stops learning

We Would Also Prefer:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field

• Experience in the mortgage, insurance or financial services industry

• Experience in the print industry

• Project Coordinator or project management experience

• Knowledge of Agile and/or Kanban as well as the Waterfall Frameworks

• Familiarity with Jira and the software development life cycle (SDLC)

• Basic knowledge of marketing, advertising, and/or application development

• Certifications: IIBP-CBAP, PMI-PBA, IIBP-AAC or similar

• Fluent in English and Spanish, both written and verbal, highly preferred

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $75,000-85000. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The range listed is just one component of Taylor Corporation’s total compensation and benefits package for employees.

About Taylor Corporation

The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

Taylor Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Taylor Corporation including all partners and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.