Business Analyst - Enterprise Project Management Office - HomeTrust Bank

Job Summary

The Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) leads projects for all areas of the organization. The Business Analyst has a critical role in helping the bank succeed at its continual business transformation by being the connection between Line of Business partners and EPMO, ensuring efforts are thoughtfully assessed, scoped, documented, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities / Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Leadership of project requests from intake through end of initiation:

• Refine project requests by collaborating with project requestors, stakeholders, and project managers to clarify business needs and objectives.
• Work with subject matter experts and both internal and external stakeholders to gather detailed business and technical requirements needed to achieve business needs and objectives.
• Ensure clarity and accuracy of project’s proposed budget and schedule through conversations with stakeholders, subject matter experts and project managers.
• Translate gathered business and technical requirements into combinations of Business Requirements Documents, Process and Data Flow Diagrams, and System Requirement Documents that are appropriate for each project.
• Prepare artifacts used during final project review and approval. Examples of artifacts are Business Case, Project Charter, Pro Forma, Communication Plan and others as needed. 

Project support during planning and execution:

• Ensure related artifacts are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support project teams with documentation and tracking of risks, issues and change requests.
• Capture EPMO project team meeting minutes and action items when needed.
• Maintain dashboards/status reports for consumption by EPMO and business unit leaders.
• Assist in the gathering of lessons learned throughout projects to improve our management of future initiatives. 

Independent leadership of select projects:

• Lead select projects that are low-to-medium complexity.
• Responsible for ownership of all phases of these projects from Intake through post-implementation Monitoring and Closure.
• May independently manage individual workstreams of larger, more complex efforts or programs led by other project management colleagues.
• Establish and lead cross-functional project teams from across the organization, including external partners and stakeholders.
• Organize and lead regular consultation with business stakeholders to ensure project remains aligned with strategic objectives.
• Lead projects primarily using waterfall methodologies, applying others where appropriate.
• Use knowledge of HomeTrust organization and Project Management skills to anticipate and address risks to scope, quality, budget, and schedule.

• Maintain confidentiality and security of sensitive information.
• Adhere to all corporate policies and procedures, Federal and State regulations, and laws.
• Complete all mandatory annual compliance training.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.
• Follow regulatory requirements including those pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Customer Identification Program (CIP), and OFAC to assist in the identification, detection and determent of money laundering and other unlawful activities, as well as regulations pertaining to lending and consumer compliance to include fair lending laws. 

Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required:

• Must be located within the HomeTrust footprint and able to travel as needed for in-person collaboration.
• 2+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: business analysis, project management, project coordination, strategic planning, or implementation
• Ability to lead conversations with people at all levels of the organization and to ask probing questions that clarify project objectives and requirements.
• Ability to transform business and technical processes into easy-to-follow visual diagrams.
• Strong organizational skills, acute attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple tasks while still meeting deadlines.
• Positive, helpful, and collaborative team player.
• Comfortable operating in an environment where standards, processes and documentation standards are still being refined based on lessons learned.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products. 

Preferred:

• 2+ years of related experience in the banking industry.
• Experience with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or other project management tool.
• Experience with LucidChart, Visio or other diagramming tool. 

About HomeTrust Bank

HomeTrust Bank, founded in 1926, is a North Carolina chartered, community-focused financial institution committed to providing value-added community banking through online/mobile channels and multiple locations in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Learn more at www.htb.com. Apply today to take your first steps towards joining this talented population of employees within a growing organization. 

Work Environment, Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  HomeTrust Bank promotes an equal employment opportunity workplace which includes reasonable accommodation of qualified applicants and employees.

• This job operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and fax machines.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Physical activity requiring reaching, sifting, lifting to 25 lbs., finger dexterity, grasping, feeling, repetitive motions, talking and hearing are required.
• The employee will frequently communicate and must be able to exchange accurate information with others.
• The employee may need to move around their office to attend meetings and to access files, machinery, or other job-related tools.

DISCLAIMER:  HomeTrust Bank is an evolving company.  As such this job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job.  While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

HomeTrust Bank values and promotes diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our business and at every level within the company. We recruit, hire, and promote employees based on their individual ability and experience and in accordance with Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. Our policy is that we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)