Senior Applications Analyst ID-2582

December 3, 2024

First Merchants Bank Responsible is seeking a Senior Applications Analyst to join to our team! This position is responsible for eliciting needs of the stakeholders, analyzing business requirements, identifying business opportunities, preparing documentation, and evaluating risk for assigned applications. Ensure assigned applications work reliably for the business and are kept current per the vendor requirements; maintain, troubleshoot, and support systems daily.

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Ensure the assigned applications are fully utilizing the feature/functionality and that processes are efficient. Perform business process review and analyses in order to drive efficiency and utilization gains throughout the department. Actively seek ways to improve the client experience.
Responsible for evaluating product offerings and potential enhancements and identifying the feasibility, business value proposition, and/or the benefits to be gained. Make a recommendation to team with rationale and obtain a supported team decision.
Lead and/or participate on projects as needed (system upgrades, bank integrations, etc.). Collaborate with other departments to lead and facilitate the implementation and fulfill the initiative purpose and goal through standard best practice project management techniques. Ensure all aspects of the project is completed:
- Documentation of the project needs.
- Analysis/options or feasibility research of needs and possible solutions.
- Visually map solution and present in an easy-to-understand manner to get a decision.
- Identify technology and/or business requirements.
- Gather, document and update business requirements.
- Complete detailed workflow process mapping.
- Develop testing strategies and execute test plan to mitigate deployment risk.
- Recommend preferred solutions.
- Implement - identify issues and escalate/manage resolution as required.
- Develop supporting documentation including process/procedure manuals.
Maintain and manage reporting systems to provide actionable information to drive business decisions.
Maintain Disaster Recovery plans and models.
Ensure all application changes follow the standard process while keeping exceptions to a minimum and only with special approval.
In Addition to the above, these may apply:
- Manage operational vendor relationships.
- Administer and monitor application-level security.
- Coordinate Application Group with Clients as required.
- Perform application maintenance including incident tickets, workflow design and process change requests.
- Perform assigned application upgrades and plan independently with management and technology teams to ensure application is kept current with vendor's release schedule, patches and other requirements.
- Lead team on discovery of new technologies and/or modules and provide recommendation to management for application replacement and/or enhancements.

In order to be successful in this position, we require the following:

High school diploma or equivalent (GED).
Over three (3) years of application/business/systems analyst experience in a financial industry environment.

The following would be a plus:

Bachelor's degree in business, operations or a related field.
Direct Banking experience, including exposure to and understanding of bank structure/operations.
For Enterprise Applications:
- Technical certifications in Microsoft, CompTIA, and/or Cisco.
- Foxtrot Certification.
- Knowledge of SQL, SAS Visual Analytics, SSRS, or other reporting technology.
For Deposit Applications:
- Payment Certifications (AAP, NCP, and/or APRP).
- Knowledge of SQL.

First Merchants offers the following:

Base Pay PLUS Bonuses
Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
401k
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
Vacation/Sick Time
Paid Holidays
Paid Parental Leave
Tuition Reimbursement
Additional Benefits

Senior Applications Analyst ID-2582

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Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

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4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

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5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

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6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

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8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

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9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

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10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...

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Senior Applications Analyst ID-2582

Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

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