Advanced Business Analyst – nCino Loan Origination Platform at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, Illinois

Job Description:

Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $50 billion assets under management and traded on the NASDAQ:WTFC. Built on the "HAVE IT ALL" model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen community bank subsidiaries with over 170 banking locations in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas. Additionally, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units including commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services, mortgage origination and purchase, wealth management services and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges.

Why join us?

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 8 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)




• Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible




• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few




• Promote from within culture

Why join this team?

• The Application Development team provides custom solutions that directly enable the business and our customers




• This role is part of a new Center of Excellence being built to support the implementation and management of Loan Origination through nCino across several lines of business




• This is the chance to get involved in the ground floor of creating the new team and business capabilities




• We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun

Position Overview

The Advanced Business Analyst is a mid-level business analysis position and serves as a key subject matter expert for organizing and coordinating strategic business analysis services to business partners. The focus of this position is to work closely with the business units to gain in-depth understanding of customer's business strategy, processes, services, roadmap and the context in which the business team operates. This role will be key to understanding and documenting capabilities and business, functional and technical requirements needed to address business challenges. Business Analysts work closely with Business resources and stakeholders, internal Technology teams, and various vendors and third-party consultants and implementers.

What You’ll Do

• Liaison with Business Units to gather business, functional and technical requirements for new initiatives




• Work with IT internal teams to optimize workflow and ensure tasks defined in the project plan are understood and executed




• Ensure overall compliance with the Enterprise Project Management Office’s (ePMO) project governance framework




• Function as a key member of a cross functional team to assist with defining and executing on delivery and implementation plans




• Other duties as assigned




• Create and manage JIRA stories in collaboration with developers throughout the SDLC process

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent




• 3-5 years working in a financial services environment with special emphasis on coordinating business, functional and technical requirements and/or project management across large cross functional teams, programs or projects




• 2+ years working on the Salesforce CRM Platform




• 2+ years working with JIRA




• nCino experience desired




• Salesforce Administrator Certification a plus




• Advanced knowledge of general IT, and Business Operations




• Must possess solid leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills




• Advanced knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes




• Exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile and Scrum Methodologies




• Must have working knowledge of business productivity tools like Microsoft Office, Excel, Power Point, and Visio.




• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, must be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical people




• Ability to create and manage JIRA user stories throughout the SDLC process following AGILE methodology

#LI-REMOTE

From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life. To be Chicago’s Bank® and Wisconsin's Bank®, we need to reflect that diversity both in all the communities we serve, the people we employ, the organizations we work with, and our banking and lending practices. Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.