Senior Business Analyst (US hours)

To position MassMutual as a market leader for the next stage of growth, it is critical that we build top engineering capacity in a rapidly changing digital world. Romania has a significant pool of highly trained engineering professionals and so we are very excited to build operations in both Bucharest and Cluj.

▪ Bachelor’s degree
▪ +5 years of experience as a business analyst
▪ 3 years of mentoring experience
▪ Seasoned individual capable of managing multiple priorities simultaneously
▪ Proven track record of working through ambiguity, and leveraging influencing skills, to execute on strategic objectives in a large corporate environment
▪ Drives continuous improvement and efficiencies beyond own scope of responsibility
▪ Ability to mentor other Business Analysts
▪ Nice to have: Experience with IT projects in a financial industry
▪ Required to work 7:30 am – 4:00 pm EST as a work regular schedule

The Senior Business Analyst will work from our Bucharest or Cluj office while collaborating with the Global MassMutual teams and develop highly performing applications & supporting the Compliance and Law departments.
MassMutual’s Corporate Application Services organization is seeking an exceptional and experienced Business Analyst in all phases of the project lifecycle (Waterfall & Agile)
Responsibilities:
▪ Responsible for understanding the needs of business partners and stakeholders to ensure that solutions to business and/or system problems and opportunities are aligned to the needs of the organization
▪ Perform analysis to determine current state capabilities and identify the capabilities needs for the future
▪ Devise or modify procedures to solve highly complex problems, which include analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements, and translating into proper business and/or system requirements.
▪ Documents business requirements using advanced business architecture techniques: business domain modeling, capability definition, value steam analysis, process workflows, etc.
▪ Communicates, verifies, and gains approval of the requirements from stakeholders
▪ Provides input to various other project documents such as project plans, estimates, readiness, or, defect management
▪ Lead analysis of business processes, procedures, data, and rules
▪ Leads business analysis across multiple parallel initiatives
▪ Monitor and report on all requirements activities, expectations, and deliverables
▪ Manage to estimate, approved funding, and forecasts
▪ Facilitate and drive requirements gathering sessions
▪ May create and maintain a business architecture reference state
▪ Collaborate with senior business and systems leaders
▪ Understand who to bring together to rapidly resolve issues
▪ Continuous process improvement
▪ Provide oversight of overall quality of work product
▪ Negotiate and influence requirements direction
▪ Mentor other business analysts
▪ Assists in the evaluation, assessment and selection criteria of vendor or third-party software solutions that will achieve a desired business outcome