Location: Chicago, Illinois
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Job ID: 804
Date Added: 02/12/2025
TYPE OF ROLE: Hybrid (3 Days In-Office | Tuesdays and Thursdays Required + Another)
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
Who We Are:
Founded in 2011, McCann Partners is a Chicago-based IT staffing and recruitment firm with a national footprint.
We believe meaningful connections make for better business, a philosophy embodied in our community service and cultivated technology network. We are not just placing talent but making Chicago – and the greater tech community – a brighter place to work and live.
Our senior-level team is genuinely interested in people and their needs. The combination empowers a true culture match and ensures quality, whether client partners are hiring for contract, contract-to-hire, or direct placement opportunities.
When we collaborate for the common good, companies grow, careers thrive, and communities prosper – we hope you’ll join us!
Job Overview:
What you’ll do:
In this role you will act as liaison between business units and Information Technology to ensure quality of requirements definition, systems design, documentation, testing processes, and training. You’ll help propose ways to further bridge the gap between business needs and technology solutions, leveraging an Agile delivery process. You will also assist in building and maturing BSA practice as well as providing guidance and mentorship to BSA team members.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Help shape the BSA practice for the organization. Working to establish a methodology, clear role expectations, process design and deliverables to consistently and effectively gather requirements as a part of the software development lifecycle.
- Serve as a BSA on some of the organization’s critical financial applications. Partnering with the Product Owners and business stakeholders to ensure the delivery team is building software as needed to support business objectives.
- Serve as a mentor to more junior BSA staff members, guiding them in their development in the field of Business System Analysis and Software Delivery.
What you can expect:
- Provide the linkage between the business units and software delivery teams through relationship management. Facilitate communication and act as the liaison between the business units and delivery teams.
- Provide guidance and mentorship of BSA team members through formal and informal instruction.
- Expected to set standard for story writing, requirements gathering, feature to story decomposition, management of Agile boards.
- Expected to assist in leading Agile delivery team ceremonies.
- Assist BSA team in building a BSA practice, defining methodology, key artifacts, processes, role expectations and key relationships with other technical and business staff.
- Assist business in evaluating, defining, and justifying technology initiatives, and required budget.
- Assist product owners on work prioritization and road mapping.
- Identify and help prioritize/plan all maintenance related activities for the delivery team(s).
- Consult on new software selection, vendor negotiations, establishing SLAs, and ensuring compatibility and cost effectiveness.
- Leads and facilitates the process of defining requirements by working closely in a liaison role with business end users and technical development/support teams.
- Partner with solution architects, lead developers, and quality assurance to ensure technical solutions align with business needs and promote an understanding of business process and business requirements.
- Document current and to-be process flows, process pain points, system gaps, system controls, etc.
- Document data mapping for system integrations, which includes documenting payload specifications for APIs.
- Responsible for managing project scope alongside product owners.
- Develop and coordinate end-user training on IT projects.
- Transfer application knowledge to technical staff to ensure a continuity of support for end-users.
- Suggest and implement improvements to requirements gathering process.
- Expected to quickly become subject matter expert on applications, systems, and data.
- Will be expected to mentor, lead, and coach less experiences team members.
- Consult and assist on revamping of current Software Development Lifecycle Methodology
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, finance, or related subject area required. Advanced degree desirable.
- 7+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, previous experience as a BSA lead is preferred.
- Proven experience in business systems analysis with a strong understanding of both business processes and technical capabilities.
- Demonstrate sound understanding of software development process using a formal software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology (Agile/Scrum).
- Have demonstrated aptitude in leading a development team during requirements gathering and refinements sessions using leveraging strong analytical skills.
- Experience with automated project management and documentation tools (e.g. flowcharting, data modeling, Excel, UI design, Visio, Lucid Charts, etc.
- Technical documentation experience (e.g., data mapping, process & data flow diagrams, detailed functional requirements, technical specifications).
- 5+ years of experience in Finance, Banking, Treasury Operations, Capital Markets or Financial Services.
- Experience with Azure DevOps a plus.
- Experience with Money Market, Derivative and Fixed Income instruments a plus.
- Experience with loan underwriting processes a plus.
- Ability to work independently.
- Must have excellent communication (verbal, written, and listening) skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Requires ability to break down ideas/issues into solutions.
- Ability to conduct research on trends and solutions to common issues.
- Has mechanisms to stay up-to-date on trends in the BSA field, Agile development methodologies and requirements gathering techniques.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
- Must possess good leadership skills.
- Ability to mentor/coach others.
Benefits Offered:
Our client offers a highly competitive compensation and bonus package, and access to a comprehensive benefits program designed to meet the needs of their employees. Their retirement program includes a 401(k) and pension plan. Their wellbeing program supports employees at work and in their personal lives: Their generous PTO plan provides five weeks of vacation for new employees and 11 paid holidays per year; their Lifestyle Spending Account provides an annual stipend for employees to support wellbeing activities; and their central downtown location at the Old Post Office provides easy access to public transportation and breathtaking views from their award-winning rooftop.
McCann Partners LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances.
For California residents and workers: Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the information security obligations, property protection and return obligations, the ability to adhere to company policies, the need to exercise sound judgement, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, and the obligation to safeguard business operations and company and client reputations.
