Application Analyst III / Commercial Banking Payment Systems

Job Locations

US-MN-Eden Prairie | US-IL-Chicago | US-IL-Joliet | US-IN-Evansville | US-IL-Tinley Park

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With $53 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving.

We continually seek highly motivated and talented individuals as our people are critical to our success. In return, we offer competitive compensation with our salary and incentive program, in addition to medical, dental, and vision insurance. 401K, continuing education opportunities and an employee assistance program are also included in our benefit suite. A unique opportunity to join a growing, community and client-focused company that is firmly rooted in its core values.

We are currently seeking an Application Analyst III that will be responsible for working with assigned internal clients to assist them in achieving their business objectives through effective development and support as part of the Commercial Banking Payments, Treasury Management Systems Team. Key responsibilities include managing payment systems such as Wires, Swift, ACH, instant payments (RTP, FedNow) and real-time payments. Writing specs for new application needs, implementing applications, and supporting and testing existing applications for various issues and updates. The Application Analyst III works independently with minimal guidance to contribute to the design, configuration, build, and daily support of these solutions and actively engage with business partners to solve business problems. A strong passion to continuously improve the user experience and enterprise efficiency is required, as this role will work to turn ideas into deliverables and valuable business solutions.

This is an in-office position with locations of Chicago (near O'Hare airport), Joliet IL, Tinley Park IL, Evansville IN, and Eden Prairie MN.

Key Accountabilities

Support and Manage Current Applications

Develop in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge of appropriate software applications used and supported by the organization. Continually build product knowledge of existing product features and product requirements.
• Manage, coordinate, and provide consultative support to the day-to-day functioning of business line clients.
• Provide superior customer service to external/internal clients, including response to incidents, proactively notifying customers of issues, assessing and communicating business impact, and identifying root cause.
• Lead monitoring and testing of new releases and systems, as well as changes and fixes to existing systems, to ensure effective implementation.
• Analyzes system logic and uses evaluative judgment to make recommendations and implement enhancements or fixes.
• Communicate and addresses complex application problems/issues and planned resolution to key stakeholders, including management, development teams, end users and unit leaders.
• Clearly communicate complex technical solutions in a manner that is understandable to internal customers and other partners.
• Must be able to understand, generate, and amend technical documentation in addition to completing formal process documentation.

Facilitate enhancements in line with changing business needs

• Create and foster partnerships with internal stakeholders to develop a solid knowledge base of the business, including needs and opportunities specifically related to application/IT platform solutions.
• Formulate and define scope and objectives for changes through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of business systems and industry standards; documents requirements.
• Research and review new or upgraded application functionality with business partners to help them prepare appropriate training and procedures updates.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with vendors and external industry contacts; work closely with vendors to ensure third party applications operate as documented.
• Provide intermediate to complex analysis, supporting the planning and implementation of systems and upgrades, and process changes.

Compliance and Risk

• Prepare documentation of changes for SOX, internal and external auditors, and other regulatory agencies, as needed. Maintains current knowledge of industry developments including changes in technology and regulations.
• Review and monitor analytics, statistics, and relevant data/information.

Key Competencies for Position

• Problem Solving/Decision Making
  • Seeks and leads efforts to identify what caused the issue; incorporates input from multiple sources to ensure effective action and shared ownership; decisions are sound based on what was known at the time and are based on a blend of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement.
• Collaboration
  • Builds rapport and effective relationships with all levels of internal and external stakeholders. Strives to find effective solutions by engaging different ideas, perspectives, and line of business expertise when analyzing a situation or developing a solution.

• Drive and Execution
  • Self-motivated and committed to achieving established goals, overcoming obstacles, and continuously learning to improve performance. Effectively collaborates with others to change/challenge work processes and methods in order to improve performance/achieve goals.

• Planning and Organizing
  • Ability to determine a course of action, set and manage priorities, and ensure optimal resources to achieve individual and/or team objectives. Sets clearly defined objectives, plans, activities, and tasks to achieve goals; plans for contingencies. Manages assigned tasks within a project with limited supervision.
• People Leadership
  • Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifies one's own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations and individuals involved.
• Culture Leadership
  • Listens openly, recognizes different viewpoints, and builds on areas of agreement; gains cooperation through influence; builds effective working relationships within and outside the Department, establishes trust, credibility, and respect through a track record of meeting commitments.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Prefer experience with Treasury Management, Payment systems such as Wires, Swift, ACH, instant payments (RTP, FedNow) and real-time payments.

• 3+ years' experience supporting the configuration and/or development of Banking or Financial Trading systems.
• Prefer experience with ServiceNow.
• Expertise with the Software Development Life Cycle and Agile.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects/tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization.
• Bachelor's degree in computer information systems, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

We continually seek highly motivated and talented individuals. Our people are critical to our Company's strategy and success. In return we offer competitive compensation with our salary, bonus program, day 1 effective, exceptional BC/BS medical, Delta dental, headspace mental health support and vision insurance, 401k Company "match" dollar for dollar (100%) of the first 5% contributed into the Plan. Continuing education and a unique opportunity with a growing, client-focused and collegial company.

Old National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer focused on fostering an inclusive workplace and committed to hiring a workforce comprised of diverse backgrounds, cultures and thinking styles.

As such, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have an agreement signed by the Director of Talent Acquisition, to fill a specific position.

Our culture is firmly rooted in our core values.

We are optimistic. We are collaborative. We are inclusive. We are agile. We are ethical. We are Old National Bank. Join our team!

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