LOB Principal Business Analyst

Fifth Third Bank is a leading financial institution looking to enhance its operations through strategic analysis and project management. The LOB Principal Business Analyst will serve as a key liaison between business lines and technical teams, ensuring effective communication and project execution to meet business needs.

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 perform project 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