Product Analysis, Senior

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Posting Title:

Product Analysis, Senior

Position Overview:

This position is within Single-Family (SF) CFO Change management group of the broader SF Finance organization. The Single-Family Finance team is responsible for accounting, business decision support for respective business segments, financial results analysis, forecasting, profitability and performance analysis, as well as, planning, budgeting and expense management.

Our Impact:

Our team is responsible for leading requirements analysis, data analysis, and user acceptance testing for finance and accounting applications. We coordinate with project teams across divisions and are instrumental in resolving application issues during financial close. Additionally, we will be assisting the management with developing project schedules, resource allocation, project costing and project status reporting.

Your Impact:

In this role as a Business Analysis Senior, you will be leading requirements analysis, data analysis, and user acceptance testing for finance and accounting applications. Your work will fall primarily in 3 categories:

Business Analysis

• Leading/assisting in the implementation on a portfolio of change initiatives across all phases of project work
• Analyzing new products and enhancements, including new offerings in up and downstream systems, assess impacts on existing applications, and develop/implement operational changes to be made.
• Defining/Reviewing business requirements to capture business area (customer) needs and guide new change initiatives. Facilitate resolution of obstacles that emerge along the way to drive projects forward
• Developing user Stories, acceptance criteria's, test plans, and test cases, and support execution (and documentation) of UAT testing/Product validation.
• Developing long-term strategy for improvements to processes and technology.
• Working, in partnership, with internal and external stakeholders, including close partnership with IT and with external vendors and partners.

Business and Operations Support

• Monitoring and execute processes required for monthly close.
• Managing production application support duties which involve on-call support for troubleshooting critical issues of supported applications, logging issues, performing in-depth analysis, working with IT to determine root cause, developing recommended solutions and ensuring controlled, timely deployments to fix the issues.
• Supporting business operational risk controls, Internal/External audit activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business or accounting related field, preferred.
• Typically has 5-7 years related experience and 1+ years using agile methodology.
• SQL experience (is a must) in the most recent project experience with the following databases DB2/Oracle/Sybase/SQL server/Mongo.
• Demonstrated business analysis and project management experience with all aspects of the project lifecycle using Agile project methodology.
• Ability to support multiple concurrent efforts/projects in various capacities (lead one or more efforts while supporting others).
• Experience with all aspects of Agile/Modern delivery methodology.
• Python experience is a must.
• Scrum/Agile certification will be a plus.
• SAS experience will be a plus.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Demonstrated leadership skills and customer service skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven ability to learn new business concepts and skills quickly.
• Strong attention to details with proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to understand business needs and determine potential solutions.
• Strong verbal and written skills, including the ability to facilitate effective meetings and to develop and deliver presentations/materials to various levels of audiences.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $100,000 - $150,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.