Sr. Retail Banking Business Analyst / Lead

Position Description
The CGI Financial Services – Consumer team is looking for a Sr. Retail Banking Business Analyst Lead who has a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in the loan origination area within a financial services company, in lending technology and business processes. This position requires functional industry knowledge and expertise in the originations ecosystem, including common business practices, practical application of core originations concepts, understanding of regulations and compliance.

The Sr. Retail Banking Business Analyst Lead will also provide guidance and support for the product direction and contribute to the prioritization of the Originations’ functionality, including working with a global delivery team leveraging Agile Best Practices. Responsibilities include designing, documenting, and implementing a product roadmap and client enhancements to an enterprise web application. The Business Analyst Lead will participate in evaluating business features to determine the best approach for meeting the acceptance criteria within the existing application. The business analyst will be involved in backlog refinement, planning of sprints, sprint reviews/demos and meeting software compliance standards.

This is a remote role but Knoxville, TN is the preferred location.

Your future duties and responsibilities
• Originations system implementations.
• Work in a cross-functional SAFE environment, interacting daily with other team members.
• Advise architects and communicate with project stakeholders.
• Work in a cross-functional scrum team, interact daily with other team members.
• Assist with writing user stories using SMART acceptance criteria.
• Support testing activities including test preparation, ensuring test cases and scripts cover all requirements and design specifications.
• Proactively brings issues and problems to the attention of the team, generating, proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them.
• Log defects, testing/retesting defects, tracking progress and results and reporting status to the scrum master.
• Update product documentation for new or existing functionality.
• Up to 50% Travel

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 10+ years in the financial industry.
• 10+ years of direct operational experience in consumer Originations lending (financial or technology company experience preferred).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills- – including ability to orchestrate client needs into written business features to be consumed by the development team.
• Experience solving complex business needs through creating simplistic consumable processes with a transformation view.
• Facilitation skills, including leading meetings, presentation skills, problem resolution/mediation.
• High degree of responsiveness and ability to work collaboratively with other team members.
• Ability to work with virtual teams spanning time zones across the country and in India
• Ability to translate technical content into business language for internal and external clients.
• Creative approach to designing business solutions with configuration and long-term technology impact considerations.
• Exceptional people skills and ability to navigate a matrixed work environment.
• Ability to educate and foster support for new ideas and approaches.
• Proficient in gathering requirements and working with Product Owners, Architects and Product Management.
• Facilitation skills, including leading meetings, presentation skills, problem resolution/mediation.
• High degree of responsiveness and ability to work collaboratively with other team members.

Desired qualifications/non-essential skills
• Think outside the box
• Manage Pressure to maintain a balance with client and teams
• Focus and thrive in a dynamic environment
• Jira experience

“CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $85,000-$150,200.”

CGI anticipates accepting applications for this position through December 30, 2024.

CGI’s benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
• Competitive compensation including profit participation program
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Basic life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Matching contributions through 401(k) plan, and CGI share purchase plan
• Flexibility and paid accrued vacation leave, ranging from 10 to 20 days per year, based on job level, years of relevant prior experience, and years of service
• 10 paid holidays per year
• At least 80 consecutive hours of paid sick/safe leave (except where applicable state/local law requires more)
• Paid parental leave, ranging from 20 to 70 consecutive business days based on circumstances of leave and applicable laws
• Bereavement leave, ranging from 1 to 7 days per year based on relationship.
• Paid jury duty leave, up to time summoned
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well-being programs

For more detailed information about our benefits offerings visit
https://www.cgi.com/us/en-us/careers/our-benefits

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