Business Analyst

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

All applicants must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident who have resided in the US for at least the last 3 years.

This job is available on a Hybrid schedule with at least 50% of the office time expected onsite.

The SRC Partners Group (SRCP) of the Supervision, Regulation, and Credit (SRC) Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (FRBB) has an opening for a Business Analyst. SRCP is responsible for the department’s Communications, Finance, Learning, Information Security, Conference/Office Management, Quality Management, Records Management, and more.

As a Business Analyst, you will be primarily responsible for activities related to local information security communications, assessments, security audits, compliance security requests, certificate management, and the support of information security policies. The position will leverage your expertise with data, database structures and tools to extract, manipulate and transform data into meaningful and valuable input while providing analysis, visualization and reporting. You will be responsible for making recommendations to increase efficiency and streamline and automate processes. This position will also determine the best approaches to storing and capturing data in alignment with local and national standards. The ability to collaborate with multiple teams and levels within the organization is required. You will be best suited if you have a passion for proactively utilizing your technical expertise to look for information and accurately querying and sharing data to a diverse set of individuals and groups.

The position and job description posted is for a Business Analyst. The successful candidate will be placed into an appropriate level within the Business Analyst job family (including Business Analyst Senior I or Business Analyst) based on knowledge and experience.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Manage security and maintain division records of access to various outside environments (e.g. FDIC, OCC, BOG).

• Provide expert level user support across the department's information security. Develop and facilitate training for department users.

• Possesses thorough understanding of complex data, tools, and technology to perform routine and non-routine data querying.

• Leverage expertise to create reports and visualizations of data.

• Under some supervision performs business analysis on complex department data, including, financial, structure, supervisory, time tracking, conflicts, records data among others.

• Analyzes business problems with appropriate logic and fact-finding and begins to identify underlying issues or problems and recognizes trends and cause and effect relationships.

• Trains others and performs troubleshooting when errors occur.

• Collaborates with team members within the unit, the department, the Bank and the System. Coordinates own work with others in group projects. Manages workflow independently with occasional communication with supervisor.

• With some oversight, presents both orally and in written form on non-complex business matters to internal and external stakeholders, System colleagues, and the Board of Governors.

• Demonstrates flexibility and ability to adjust to new and different priorities.

• Perform business impact analysis, crisis planning, and post event assessments/lessons learned related to business information security events.

• Develop, analyze, and improve new and existing procedures and documentation. Participate in System, Interagency, Bank or departmental initiatives such as workgroups, taskforces and peer reviews.

Desirable Knowledge and Skills:

• Proficient technical knowledge of Active Directory (AD) groups, SAFR, and familiarity of management information systems, audit and internal controls.

• Proficiency using SQL, R, SAS, or similar programming and analytics tools.

• Experience in utilizing using Tableau, PowerBI, Shiny or other data visualization tools.

• Meticulous attention to detail, can organize multiple reviews at once, arranges and organizes information and files in a useful manner.

• Skilled planner, accurately scopes out length and difficulty of projects, develops schedules and tasks to meet deadlines, anticipates and adjusts for roadblocks.

Other Accountabilities:

Perform other duties as assigned.

Supervision:

This position is not required to directly supervise others.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Knowledge and experience normally acquired through, or equivalent to, the completion of a Master’s degree and 3 years of related work experience.

• Appropriate industry certifications (SAFR, FISMA) are preferred.

The Federal Reserve Bank is committed to a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

This position requires access to confidential supervisory information and/or FOMC information, which is limited to "Protected Individuals" as defined in the U.S. federal immigration law. Protected Individuals include, but are not limited to, U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents who either are not yet eligible to apply for naturalization or who have applied for naturalization within the requisite timeframe. Candidates who are not U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents may be eligible for the information access required for this position and sponsorship for a work visa, and subsequently for permanent residence, if they sign a declaration of intent to become a U.S. citizen and meet other eligibility requirements.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years. All candidates must undergo an enhanced background check and comply with all applicable information handling rules.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

Last Update: 01/2025

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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