What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Applications Analyst - Remote/hybrid/in-office position at Longbridge Financial?
Company Description
Longbridge Financial, LLC (LBF) is an innovative company committed to responsibly helping senior homeowners reshape their financial future to improve their retirement. Our mission is to be consistently fair, transparent, and professional at all times with our employees, customers, and partners.
Recognized as an Industry Changemaker, Longbridge CEO Chris Mayer looks at the industry differently and values employees at all levels who drive our company forward. In fact, we are now a top 2 reverse mortgage lender.
Why work with us?
At Longbridge Financial, “We do the right thing” is more than a mantra, it’s our guarantee. We want to attract the best and brightest—that’s why we’re committed to giving our employees the support they need and the respect they deserve. We offer competitive compensation packages and benefits, as well as a strong marketing and operations foundation. Join us for a rewarding career with remarkable growth potential. Ready to be a changemaker and be a part of a team to help propel Longbridge to number one?
Job Description
The Enterprise Applications Analyst is responsible for analyzing, supporting, implementing, and maintaining Longbridge Financials enterprise applications. This role involves interacting with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, documenting business requirements, collaborating with the technical team to develop solutions, creating test scripts, leading business testing, and obtaining written approval in line with Longbridge’s Change Management and Project Management policies.
Primary Job Duties:
- Schedule meetings with business stakeholders to elicit business requirements and document current state and future state business process models. Develop expertise in how the data will be used by the business.
- Control the requirements management process by creating common understanding of requirements, communicating critical dates for delivering requirements, understanding critical needs vs. nice to haves and maintaining documentation according to the standard agreed process.
- Collaborate with the technical team to define the sources of data, type of ingestion, relationships, tables, variables, and transformations that may be needed.
- Oversee the configuration and deployment of new enterprise applications and/or enhancements to existing systems
- Assist in the integration of technical and application components to meet business requirements.
- Collaborate with the Reporting team and other SME’s to proactively troubleshoot data quality issues by identifying the root cause of data discrepancies and determining and implementing recommendations for resolution.
- Work with business counterparts on operational readiness activities to ensure that necessary training and procedure updates have occurred prior to implementation of enhancements and repairs.
- Develop Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Plan (UAT) and testing in coordination with project and business leads.
- Monitor application performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementation performance optimization strategies
- Monitor application usage data to identify trends and areas for improvement
- Schedule and lead business testing efforts, documenting defects and submitting for rework and obtaining written business sign off to deploy to production.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree, in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent experience.
- 4 years of business analyst experience (i.e., business requirements).
- Capable of self-managing workload with little to no supervision.
- Provide leadership and project management in a cross-team environment.
- Be comfortable juggling multiple projects and constantly shifting timelines in a fast-paced complex environment.
- Detail-oriented. Able to understand complex information and extract up or down as may be required to communicate to a technical associate or executive with appropriate level of granularity.
- Effective problem solving through understanding of complex issues and ability to develop creative workarounds.
- Clear and understandable speaking and writing capabilities.
- Experience navigating Microsoft SharePoint and Teams document repositories.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio required.
- Familiarity with Mortgage software, tools and processes preferred.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.