Senior Business Systems Analyst

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

At Schwab, the Finance and Regulatory Reporting Technology team provides business technology strategy, solutions and support for Schwab's Corporate Controller, Financial Planning & Analysis, Regulatory Reporting, Profitability Analysis function, Procurement and Finance functions and Corporate Vendor Management. Our team is committed to providing innovative technology solutions to our business partners in alignment with Schwab’s purpose and values, and our Corporate Strategic Plan.

As a Senior Business System Analyst supporting our procurement and vendor management platforms, you’ll help translate complex business needs into reliable technology solutions while improving how these platforms operate and evolve. create, maintain, support, and improve complex technology operations for our core procurement and vendor management platforms, with a strong focus on driving continuous process improvement through modern engineering practices, including CI/CD and DevOps methodologies.

You’ll partner with product owners, business stakeholders, and technical teams to define and prioritize requirements, support Agile planning and releases, and maintain traceability to business objectives. You’ll apply analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to design solutions, facilitate informed decisions, support integrations and testing, and move changes successfully into production. Your experience with vendor lifecycle processes, modern engineering practices, and continuous improvement will help strengthen technology that enables critical business operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Support PI Planning, sprint planning, grooming sessions, and release activities.
• Drive the ProcessUnity effort into the existing ecosystem.
• Ensure requirements traceability and alignment to business objectives.
• Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders and technical partners to define strategy and scope of software requirements (decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks).
• Design, develop and present solutions and recommendations to leadership and project stakeholders.
• Deliver technical solutions, perform integration and acceptance testing and deploy to production.
• Conducts in-depth analysis, evaluates factors, and influences decisions with insights.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and implements creative solutions.
• Writes concise, well-structured, and engaging business documents.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ Years experience implementing and supporting ProcessUnity automations for risk & compliance required.
• Experienced in full lifecycle software delivery.
• Experience with API-based integrations and middleware platforms.
• Strong understanding of domain-specific toolsets for conducting analysis.
• Ability to consolidate, organize, and convey complex problems.
• Clear and concise communication skills.
• Experience with SQL.
• Data conversion and mapping skills.
• Understanding of DevOps/Operations.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems through analytical thinking, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Working knowledge of Python.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with supplier onboarding, contract management, and third-party risk processes.
• Experience using software delivery collaboration tools such as GitHub, Jira, Rally or comparable platforms.
• Understanding of Generative and / or Agentic AI concepts and responsible application of AI technologies within software workflows.
• Experience leveraging automation or AI-driven approaches to optimize development processes, system operations, testing, or documentation.
• Experience supporting Zip or another modern procurement intake, vendor onboarding, procurement, or contracting technology.
• Experience applying Agile practices to PI planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, prioritization, and release activities.
• Experience managing requirements and maintaining traceability between business objectives, features, stories, and delivered solutions.
• Ability to develop and present technology solutions and recommendations to leadership and project stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for process improvement and adapt solutions as business and technology needs evolve.

In addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.