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Remote, MN, United States
Remote, PA, United States

Talented IT professional capable of providing business analysis support on U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, Inc. and PFM Asset Management LLC project initiatives.

• Provides project and analytical support to assigned business line or functional area.
• Performs research, analysis, review, development, implementations, and monitoring of new and/or revised products/services.
• Acts as a project liaison with other departments.
• Analyzes current costs and estimates the cost or cost savings.
• Compiles and analyzes information for an assigned project or areas making recommendations based on findings.
• May supervise a team of project staff.
• Leads the discovery, business analysis and requirements elicitation, as well as participates in the testing, quality assurance, and implementation of business and IT projects.
• Thorough understanding of standard project processes and the software development life cycle.
• Work closely with business line and operations SMEs to document the current and to-be processes, identify gaps, and elicit business requirements and business rules.
• Ability to translate the business requirements to the technology project team members to ensure understanding.
• Reviews the solution design and traces back to functional and non-functional requirements to confirm business needs and business rules are met.
• Follows project processes and procedures for IT projects to ensure all information systems, products, and services meet company standards and end-user requirements.
• Works with project team members to participate and provide input to project plans, schedules, detailed tasks, and milestone activities.
• May assist in the coordination of testing activities to verify quality and provides results to project leadership.
• May assist testers in writing test cases.
• May facilitate the definition and management of IT and UAT test environment requirements and setups.
• Ensures requirements deliverables meet audit criteria.
• Interfaces with stakeholders and end users to ensure that systems are developed which meet their business need and specifications.
• Provides status reporting to project team and project manager.
• Helps define risk mitigation strategies and actions to remove obstacles to quality solution delivery.
• Communicates and endorses strict adherence to methodologies, processes, and standards and monitors adherence on an on-going basis.
• Maintains contact with project stakeholders, when required, to ensure project quality expectations are understood and met.
• Experienced working on both Agile and Waterfall teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Eight to ten years of experience in project management activities

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Considerable knowledge of assigned business line or functional area
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Thorough knowledge of project management
• Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and to analyze data
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Master's degree preferred
• Experience in the financial services industry, with knowledge of asset management business, systems, and/or processes preferred.
• Proficiency with business process analysis and documentation
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills
• Flexibility to adapt business requirements and/or priorities based on changing business needs
• Ability to conduct an analysis of a business need, including scheduling meetings, planning agendas and conferring with business leaders and project stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple tasks/projects and deadlines simultaneously
• Proficient using a variety of software packages including Microsoft Office applications
• Strong technical skills in process mapping
• Business Analysis Certification preferred