Sr Business Analyst - Dealer Finance Background Preferred

About the role

The Dealer Finance team at FIS supports a mission-critical financing platform that enables lenders to manage dealer warehouse financing, dealer lines of credit, and dealer loan portfolios. The application combines a graphical user interface (GUI) with a robust COBOL-based mainframe backend that processes and manages complex dealer financing transactions. Our team works closely with clients on a daily basis to support their business operations, analyze requirements, troubleshoot issues, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness. We serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring client needs are understood and translated into successful technology solutions. Our team consists of experienced business analysts, developers, and product professionals who collaborate to support production operations, deliver enhancements, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. We value teamwork, innovation, and a customer-first mindset. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Dealer Finance clients to understand business needs, answer questions, and provide day-to-day application support.
• Lead design and development execution for Dealer Finance projects, ensuring delivery aligns to client requirements, product strategy, and enterprise priorities.
• Collaborate with technical teams supporting a COBOL-based mainframe application and associated GUI front-end solutions.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements for system enhancements, defect resolution, and process improvements.
• Create and maintain functional specifications, user stories, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Investigate, reproduce, and document system issues; provide business analysis and support root cause identification efforts.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support test planning, test case development, test execution, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Work closely with developers to ensure business requirements are fully understood and implemented.
• Analyze dealer warehouse financing, dealer line of credit, and dealer loan processing workflows to identify opportunities for optimization and automation.
• Facilitate communication between clients, business stakeholders, and technical teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• What you bring
• Strong experience working on design and development-focused projects
• Proven ability to work directly with clients to gather requirements, write Business Requirements, and translate them into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrated experience delivering solutions within Dealer Finance or financial services domains.
• Strong collaboration skills across Release Management, Product, QA, and Development teams.
• Ability to operate independently on complex, multi‑team initiatives with significant business impact.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Ownership or related Agile delivery roles.
• Dealer Finance experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with AF/ALS platforms will be considered
• Experience supporting production systems and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Bonus if you have
• Knowledge of dealer finance, commercial lending, floor plan financing, warehouse lending, or dealer lines of credit.
• Experience supporting mainframe applications and working with COBOL-based systems.
• Familiarity with mainframe technologies such as TSO/ISPF, JCL, and CICS.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools such as Jira.
• Understanding of financial transaction processing, loan servicing, and credit management workflows.
• Experience supporting large-scale, client-facing financial platforms.
• Knowledge of system integration, data analysis, and production support best practices.
• What we offer you
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Flexible and creative work environment.
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology.
• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities - FIS is your final career step!
• Time to support charities and give back in your community.
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Job Description About FIS Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate, and above all fun.

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