Experience more with a career at COUNTRY Financial!

We’re excited you’re interested in a career at COUNTRY as we strive toward our vision - to enrich lives in the communities we serve. Our footprint spans coast to coast. But more important than where we operate, is the people who do the work. Apply today to help our organization grow and make a difference for our clients.

About the role

Are you passionate about bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions? As a Business Systems Analyst, you will play a crucial role in defining systems scope and objectives through facilitation, thorough research, and fact-finding. You will be responsible for understanding the structure, policies, and operations of the enterprise while recommending business and/or technology-focused solutions to improve general business processes and planning. You will collaborate with business units to understand their strategies, business process flows, and opportunities to develop technical solutions, diagrams, and roadmaps that align with business and technical goals. Your role will involve analyzing business and user needs, documenting requirements, data analysis, and addressing system logic challenges as necessary. In doing so, you will elicit, translate, and simplify user requirements. Acting as a liaison between the technology development team, vendors, and business units, you will facilitate the development and implementation of new systems and enhancements to existing ones. Leading analysis sessions and preparing communications and presentations on system enhancements or alternatives will also be key aspects of your role.

How does this role make an impact?

- Based on internal and external customer needs, describes, prioritizes, and communicates requirements, ensuring recommended change is aligned to product roadmaps. May manage and execute long term road maps to drive the overall vision and execution of products. - Actively manages product development and provides regular updates to all stakeholders. Frequently touches base with development teams and the business for sprint reviews. - Applies design thinking techniques (e.g., user stories, wireframing, prototyping) in order to define product features. - Uses team scrum/agile development techniques and tools for team collaboration, product testing, issue tracking and backlog management. - Assists in developing business cases for product enhancements, establishment of the Minimum Viable product, Minimum Marketable Features, and product improvements. - Identifies and highlights risks and issues, articulating the impact of these on the product delivery. - Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs.

Do you have what we're looking for?

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Process mapping/modeling
• Experience working within the SAFe Agile methodology
• Prior Life insurance industry experience
• Typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience or a combination of related experience, education and training.

Base Pay Range:

$94,000-$129,250

The base pay range represents the typical range of potential salary offers for candidates hired. Factors used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, qualifications and experience.

Incentive Pay:

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a Short-Term Incentive plan.

Why work with us?

Our employees and representatives serve nearly one million households with our diverse range of personal and business insurance products as well as retirement and investment services. We build relationships and work together to create a stronger, more secure future for our clients and our communities. We’re a big company, yet small enough you can make an impact and won’t get lost in the shuffle. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow throughout your career, either within this role or by exploring other areas of our business.

You’ll be able to take advantage of our benefits package, which includes insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), 401(k) with company match.

COUNTRY Financial is committed to providing equal opportunity in all areas of employment, and in providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, disability, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

Come join our team at COUNTRY today!