Senior Business Analyst – Dealer Finance

Role Overview

• Partner directly with Dealer Finance clients to understand business needs, answer questions, and provide day-to-day application support.
• Lead design and development execution for Dealer Finance projects, ensuring delivery aligns to client requirements, product strategy, and enterprise priorities.
• Collaborate with technical teams supporting a COBOL-based mainframe application and associated GUI front-end solutions.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements for system enhancements, defect resolution, and process improvements.
• Create and maintain functional specifications, user stories, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Investigate, reproduce, and document system issues; provide business analysis and support root cause identification efforts.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support test planning, test case development, test execution, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Work closely with developers to ensure business requirements are fully understood and implemented.
• Analyze dealer warehouse financing, dealer line of credit, and dealer loan processing workflows to identify opportunities for optimization and automation.
• Facilitate communication between clients, business stakeholders, and technical teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Requirements

• Strong experience working on design and development–focused projects
• Proven ability to work directly with clients to gather requirements, write Business Requirements, and translate them into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrated experience delivering solutions within Dealer Finance or financial services domains.
• Strong collaboration skills across Release Management, Product, QA, and Development teams.
• Ability to operate independently on complex, multi‑team initiatives with significant business impact.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Ownership or related Agile delivery roles.
• Dealer Finance experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with AF/ALS platforms will be considered
• Experience supporting production systems and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Bonus if you have Knowledge of dealer finance, commercial lending, floor plan financing, warehouse lending, or dealer lines of credit.
• Experience supporting mainframe applications and working with COBOL-based systems.
• Familiarity with mainframe technologies such as TSO/ISPF, JCL, and CICS.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools such as Jira.
• Understanding of financial transaction processing, loan servicing, and credit management workflows.
• Experience supporting large-scale, client-facing financial platforms.
• Knowledge of system integration, data analysis, and production support best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible and creative work environment
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology
• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!
• Time to support charities and give back in your community.