Associate Principal, Productivity Enablement

What You'll Do:

As part of the Productivity Enablement function within the Office of the COO, this role will drive operational excellence by collaboratively and systematically analyzing business problems, defining solution requirements, guiding solution delivery, and monitoring the performance of solutions.

The role maintains effective relationships with leaders and experts across the organization, leads analyses, facilitates engagement and workshops, and produces high quality blueprints for short and long-term change. This role also uses expertise with Microsoft capabilities (Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Excel Macros, and/or VBA) to both deliver solutions and educate users on the safe use of these tools to deliver their own continuous improvements.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Collaborate with team owners and SMEs to identify process pain points and opportunities to leverage automation to increase value and efficiency throughout the organization

• Act as a primary contact to members of the Productivity Community of Practice to share knowledge, grow expertise, and direct use of Microsoft productivity tools.

• Monitor the safe use of user-developed tools enterprise-wide through the Community of Practice.

• Contribute to defining and executing the long-term vision and roadmap for automation within OCC.

• Analyze and monitor the return on investment of our solutions.

• Write user requirements for development and testing teams.

• Participate with UAT and test scenario/case development.

• Manage expectations and communicate with stakeholders and team members

• Serve as a liaison between development partners and business SMEs

• Work closely with OCC information technology teams to integrate the automation platforms with other existing platforms

• Lead Agile ceremonies that support solution delivery

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Experience in collecting and documenting business requirements to solve process inefficiencies

• Hands-on experience delivering automations with Microsoft tools (Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI; Excel Macros, VBA)

• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, IT partners, team, and leadership

• Ability to think logically in a manner to learn script writing for automation tools

• Understanding of systems development methodologies

• Ability to identify, analyze, quantify, and report performance metrics related to delivered process improvements and automations

Technical Skills:

• [Required] Microsoft Office Suite

• [Required] Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI), Excel Macros, and/or VBA

• [Preferred] Experience with business process management (BPM) Tools

• [Preferred] Understanding of robotic process automation (RPA) Tools

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Management, Finance, or similar field

• [Preferred] MBA or related graduate level course work

• [Required] 5+ years of work experience

• [Required] Experience with business analysis

Certificates or Licenses:

• None Required

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Salary Range

Incentive Range

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer