Business Analyst

About Renaissance Financial

Renaissance Financial is a comprehensive financial services firm with locations in St. Louis, Overland Park, Omaha, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City. Our Mission: Using creative business and personal planning, we help our clients achieve financial freedom… one opportunity at a time. Our true team approach and entrepreneurial atmosphere set us apart from other firms in our industry. Joining our close-knit team at Renaissance Financial will inspire professional growth through numerous opportunities while creating a lasting impact on our organization and community. We support and reward our staff through team outings and industry leading benefits because we sincerely care about the well-being of our team members.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

The mission of this full-time position is to organize, manage, and plan complex projects for the organization’s research, development, and product implementation efforts.

Primary Responsibilities

• Engage stakeholders to gather software requirements/business rules and ensure alignment with development team.
• Capture business needs and requirements through collaborative end-user
• Documents business requirements using interviews, workshops, and/or existing system documentation or procedures to effectively capture business requirements.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverables such as use cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams.
• Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical
• Manages issues and reports status to assigned Scrum Master / Project
• Makes recommendations on applications for scalability, improved efficiencies, and risk
• Use professional knowledge, judgment, and analysis in making decisions or recommend a course of action that resolves a business need.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation for assigned
• Participate in the development life cycle and communicate progress to stakeholders, addressing questions, concerns, and/or complaints throughout the project and act as a liaison between team and end-users.

Other duties may be assigned to meet the business needs.

Essential Characteristics

• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills to ensure excellent client service and expedient business processing.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact and communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to review and analyze complex information, and then present complex material in a simple, easy to understand way.
• Forward-thinking approach to automating and building processes for scalability and
• Effective Information Literacy and Listening
• Sense of accountability, owning one’s work and taking pride in it; commitment to quality and continuous
• Good analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills to evaluate business
• Evidence of self-motivation, willingness to be a team player
• Builds and maintains a positive and results-oriented work
• Effectively work with both technical staff and business product
• Persuasive and able to overcome
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate clearly with various
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and approach work methodically with attention to detail.

Education, Training & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields, which may include Computer Science, Business, or Engineering, or relative B.A experience.
• Understanding of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks.
• Five years' experience as a Business
• Understanding of Dev Ops methodologies preferred, and capability of utilizing Dev Ops principles to help enhance team efficiency and support the company’s long-term
• Experience with financial industry is preferred.

Computer Equipment and Software

• Demonstrated experience with Atlassian Development tools (Jira) or similar products
• Proficiency in MS Office applications, g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Database Management would be helpful but not

Working Conditions

• Professional on-site office
• Standard work
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a
• We are committed to providing an accessible work If you need accommodations during the application or employment process, please let us know.

Benefits and Incentives

• Employer Paid Medical
• Employer provided 401k contribution (up to 10% based on team member eligible compensation annually).
• Potential for Annual Variable Compensation and