Staff-Business Systems Analyst

Job Description

Your Opportunity

Charles Schwab Investment Management is responsible for managing the Schwab mutual funds and Schwab ETFs. The objective of the CSIM Business Analysis team is to gain in-depth business knowledge to successfully represent the business community in arriving at technical solutions that lead business strategies through implementation. The team also participates in the day-to-day support of CSIM applications.

The CSIM-Business Analysis Team acts as the liaison between Charles Schwab Investment Management (CSIM) and the CSIM Technology group.

What you’re good at

• Requirements gathering and functional testing areas in an Agile team.
• Serving as the primary contact between our business partners and CSIM Technology to ensure that business requirements are well-documented and transformed into conceptual technical solutions
• Conducting requirements-gathering meetings with users, developers, system design architects, system integrators and vendors.
• Partnering with QA in the Agile team in generating UAT test scripts
• Coordinating user acceptance testing.
• Ensuring that system solutions are delivered successfully to the business stakeholders.
• Providing technical support and maintenance of existing systems, as needed.
• Gaining in-depth business knowledge to successfully represent the business community in arriving at technical solutions that support business strategies
• Adapting to changing priorities and managing multiple tasks.
• Understanding the data elements required to support risk monitoring.

What you have

• 3-6 years of relevant experience working as an IT business systems analyst or individuals with business analyst experience looking to transition to technology.
• Ability to manage and communicate multiple and changing priorities and deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze/provide technology recommendations to the business.
• Experience in systems development life cycle including the ability to define and document specifications, work with developers to design/analyze alternative technical solutions, test completed code and complete a smooth implementation with the business partners.
• Confidence in presenting to the team and management for both big-picture planning and day-to-day management of project goal.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Education: BA/BS.