LOB Principal Business Analyst

Fifth Third Bank is a financial institution seeking a LOB Principal Business Analyst to lead the liaison between line of business, operational support, and information technology. The role involves analyzing business needs, coordinating development and support for applications, and ensuring effective communication across teams to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Functions as the liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle
• Acts as team leader for projects
• Possesses strong knowledge of the business line, including the business plan, products, process and revenue streams
• Plays a key role in the planning, testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions. Ensure system enhancements follow the appropriate IT guidelines, meet or exceed user requirements, and are completed in a timely fashion. May performproject leader role for projects
• Identifies system enhancements, documents business needs and determines development impact to current system processing. Works with programmers and users to ensure accuracy of enhancements
• Reviews operational procedures and methods and recommends changes for improvement with an emphasis on automation and efficiency
• Provides input into the creation of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates and their aspects of assigned projects
• Provides guidance and context in prioritizing and determining complexity of problems and requests
• Partners with the technical areas in the research and resolution of system and process problems
• Identifies, researches, and analyzes production problems develops solutions, and resolves problems
• Works with programming resources (in house and third party) to ensure development work is completed to specification
• May perform some aspects of Project Management including but not limited to Approval gathering, Readiness Assessments, and other artifacts and controls
• Other duties as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years work experience in banking, financial services or related experience
• Minimum 3 years of project management experience
• Proven leadership experience in areas of operations, manufacturing or quality
• Possesses a broad understanding of business systems and industry requirements
• Ability to present to senior leadership on sensitive subject matters
• Ability to facilitate large groups toward the Development of common solutions
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and be flexible
• Ability to Manage multiple projects, work under pressure, and adapt to sudden changes in the work environment
• Proficient in Windows based software programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio)
• Six Sigma Green Belt or PMP preferred