Principal, Business Analysis

* THIS POSITION IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR VISA SPONSORSHIP
* What You'll Do:

This role will be responsible for establishing and maintaining effective relationships with leaders throughout the organization in order to help design solutions leveraging information gathering and analysis/modeling skills. Helping manage efforts utilizing an Agile method, this role will direct collaboration with owners, users, developers, and QA teammates to ensure that solutions are addressing the owner's vision and the challenges presented in the identified processes.

Analytical skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills, and knowledge automation capabilities are foundational to success in this role.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

* Manage relationships with internal stakeholders

* Direct organizational value through active listening and translating identified challenges into actionable plans and stories

* Ensure collective team efforts are measurable and support continuous improvement

* Collaborate with team owners and SMEs to identify process pain points and opportunities to leverage automation to increase value and efficiency throughout the organization

* Direct the development of a holistic approach by partnering with process owners to prescribe process solutions and manage expectations through the process

* Write agile user stories that will inform the development and testing teams as to required features

* Direct UAT and test scenario/case development

* Facilitate UAT of deployment complete projects

* Analyze impact from process changes to risks and controls within processes

* Manage expectations and report project progress to stakeholders, team members, and management

* Serve as a liaison between development partners and business SMEs

* Define and execute the roadmap for automation within OCC

* Work closely with OCC information technology teams to integrate the automation platforms with other existing platforms

* Direct and enable all Agile ceremonies that support solution delivery

* Work as a member of the Process Innovation team, and coordinate with all team members to address customer requests

* Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

* None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

* [Required] Proven experience in handling BPM and automation principles

* [Required] Understanding of SDLC methodologies including Agile

* [Required] Understanding of risk and controls within processes

* [Required]

Experience with Process Modeling and Continuous Improvement methods

* [Required] Familiarity with delivering human-centric design solutions

* [Required] Demonstrable experience in collecting and documenting business requirements to solve process inefficiencies

* [Required] Proven ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, team, and leadership

* [Required] Ability to think logically in a manner to learn script writing for automation tools

* [Required] Ability to interact with various departments to successfully collect needed information to complete analysis efforts.

* [Required] Ability to work proactively in identifying risks and proposing solutions

* [Required] Ability to plan/manage/prioritize work to meet objectives of multiple or competing priorities/projects

Technical Skills & Background

* [Required] Microsoft Office Suite

* [Required] Proven

Experience with JIRA

* [Required] Profound understanding of BPM tools and techniques

* [Required]

Experience with RPA Tools

Education & Training

* [Required] Bachelor's degree in Business or Technology field

* [Preferred] Master's degree

* [Required] 10+ years of experience

* [Required] Proven expertise in business analysis

* [Required]

Experience with SDLC methodologies including experience with Agile

Certifications

* [Required] Agile certifications (Scrum Master, Product Owner)

* [Required] Process Improvement techniques (Six Sigma, Lean)

* [Required] BPM technologies

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counter party (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee…