Lead HR Systems Business Analyst

Role Description

You desire impactful work. You’re RGA ready. RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

• Serves as a Strategic Business and Technology partner, helping share product direction, evaluate complex business needs, challenge assumptions and translate ambiguous opportunities into clear actionable solutions.
• Contributes to product vision and strategic direction.
• Identifies potential efficiency gains in team process/procedures including leveraging innovation where feasible.
• Fosters mutually beneficial working relationships for business and IT by working closely with end users and application development team.
• Uses their deep business and technical knowledge to contribute to system capabilities.
• Acts as a trusted thought partner to HR, IT and leadership stakeholders by bringing forward both insights as well as options to drive recommendations and tradeoffs in order to improve delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS), or equivalent experience.
• 8+ Years of IT-related experience, such as Business Analysis, Data Analysis.
• Lead an Agile/Iterative project team in the role of business analyst.
• Knowledge of programming languages, project management, and application or systems development methodologies.
• Maintains a working competency of technology stack associated with project solutions.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge.
• Advanced ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines.
• Advanced investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced data analysis skill.
• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions.
• Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously.
• Advanced ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Advanced skills in customer relationship management and change management.
• Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills.
• Ability to operate independently and to bring structure to ambiguity.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions.
• Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects.
• Advanced interpersonal skills.
• Basic SQL query writing skills and other technical acumen.
• Requirements management tool experience (Azure DevOps or others).

Requirements

• Provides day-to-day leadership and direction to analysts and project support resources.
• Coaches team members on requirements quality, stakeholder management, solution design and best practices.
• Adheres and furthers established standards for documentation, backlog refinement and release preparation.
• Conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members.
• Assists with prioritizing work within an iteration and targeted release.
• Documents the clients’ business needs in the form of user stories.
• Creates business process and technical diagrams for shared understanding of how system capabilities connect across processes data, integrations, reporting, compliance and the user experience.
• Contributes to roadmap planning and prioritization.
• Evaluates new or enhanced solutions to determine potential issues and communicates how problems may affect business and recommends solutions.
• Creates defect and enhancement items to be added to the backlog, collaborates with software engineer for mutual understanding.
• Assists in evaluation of business requests to determine feasibility, researches and identifies options.

Benefits

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.
• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.
• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.
• Compensation Range: $107,060.00 - $159,390.00 Annual.
• Annual bonus plan and eligibility for long-term equity incentive plan.
• Full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.