Why USAA?
Let’s do something that really matters.
At USAA, we have an important mission: facilitating the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. Not all of our employees served in our nation’s military, but we all share in the mission to give back to those who did. We’re working as one to build a great experience and make a real impact for our members.
We believe in our core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty and service. They’re what guides everything we do – from how we treat our members to how we treat each other. Come be a part of what makes us so special!
The Opportunity
We are currently seeking a dedicated Business Support Analyst Lead to participate in Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) Fellowship Cohort 24-3 with USAA. The HOH Fellowship Program builds an extraordinary experience for transitioning service members, veterans, and military spouses that increase competitiveness and improve opportunities to find meaningful employment by providing development, skills, and exposure to corporate working environment and private sector business operations. HOH Fellowship Programs are best-in-class workforce development programs that are cohort based and twelve weeks in duration.
As a participant in the Military Fellowship Program, we understand that in most cases Fellows are ending their active service commitments and actively relocating. Therefore, while participating in the Fellowship program, Fellows are authorized to work remotely. If selected for full time employment, we offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, Chesapeake, VA or Tampa, FL
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
What you'll do:
- Evaluates complex business data and trends to recommend changes in methods or procedures to increase efficiency and facilitate significant improvements to processes and systems.
- Provides support and direction to team members and functional partners with identifying and solving identified opportunities, resolving gaps as they are identified and updating reporting metrics.
- Applies subject-matter-expert functional knowledge to produce complex work deliverables in support of departmental and enterprise initiatives such as audit reviews, business strategy development and project business support.
- Assists and mentors team members and project managers in developing problem solving approach, identifying gaps, and determining optimal way to aggregate and communicate findings.
- Manages broad functional projects and/or participates as a SME resource on larger initiatives to support business requirements.
- Represents the business or staff agency as the subject matter expert and may be a proxy for middle-management leadership.
- Maintains broad system knowledge, stays current on all system enhancements, identifies training needs and implements plans.
- Maintains broad business knowledge, stays current on key business strategies and initiatives and identifies opportunities for support and enablement.
- Plans and designs business processes and make recommendations and changes in order to improve and support business systems and activities and/or to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency.
- Provides insight, analyses, advice and recommendations to keep business on operational and financial plan.
- Gathers information, analyzes data and trends to identify and implement business optimization opportunities.
- Supports team with assigned analysis, contributes in discussions of strategic options and recommendations.
- Develops/advises on policies, standards, risk management and controls related to relevant processes.
- Coaches and provides on-the-job training for other team members.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
What you have:
- Current participant in the 24-3 Hiring our Heroes (HOH) Cohort or a current contractor in the Non-Direct, 24-2 HOH program.
- Bachelors degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree
- 8 years of experience in end-to-end analysis and/or operations experience, including: requirement gathering and documentation, operational planning and forecasting, data analytics, or current/future state analysis, in direct support of business planning initiatives and optimization of business operations.
- Knowledge of business operations and systems/business requirements processes.
- Experience facilitating and driving collaboration to common understanding of business requirements and driving standard enterprise wide business processes.
- Knowledge of business analysis tools for ex: MS Visio MS Excel, Tableau, SQL.
- Experience applying best practices to identifying and interpreting trends or patterns in data to develop recommendations to improve business operations.
What sets you apart:
- Experience with building reports and providing report brief outs to senior level management.
- Experience with project/program management, Scaled Agile Framework Methodology, or technical capacity and resource reporting.
- P&C Insurance acumen a plus.
The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job experience and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.
What we offer:
Hiring Our Heroes Fellows are paid by the HOH program.
If selected for a full-time role, USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location. The hiring range for this position is: $109,130 - $208,580.
Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.
Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.
USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
