Business Analyst

FMNE Insurance is seeking a Business Analyst to join our growing IT Department—a proactive, intuitive developer ready to contribute immediately and grow with us in Lincoln, NE. With a competitive salary and excellent benefits package, expanding beyond health insurance and a generous 401K, we offer an employee wellness program, a hybrid work‑from‑home policy for eligible employees, pension plan, and so much more.

This employer will not sponsor any work visas for any applicant of this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Please supply a cover letter and resume. Applications with cover letters will be given preferential review.

Be a part of a rock‑solid company with deep Midwest roots. If our core values resonate with you, we encourage you to apply to be a Business Analyst at FMNE today!

Core values include:
Integrity – Service – Excellence – Stability – Strength – Respect – Teamwork

The Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for analyzing business needs and ensuring they are clearly understood and effectively translated into criteria that support technology delivery. This role works closely with business stakeholders, Product Owners, and delivery teams to define scope, clarify intent, and support solutions that align with business processes and objectives.

The BA focuses on understanding how work is performed today, how systems support that work, and what changes are required to improve efficiency, accuracy, and outcomes. The role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly across technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Demonstrates the Company’s mission, while successfully performing its core values related to integrity, service, excellence, stability, strength, respect, and teamwork.
• Regular and timely attendance in the office is an essential function of the position.

• Act as a trusted liaison between Product Owners, business stakeholders, subject‑matter experts, and delivery teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of end‑to‑end business processes, customer journeys, and operational workflows.
• Facilitate productive conversations that surface real needs, constraints, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Proactively identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement within business processes and systems.

• Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements using appropriate techniques (workshops, interviews, process mapping, observation, etc.).
• Translate business needs into clear, well‑structured user stories with acceptance criteria that teams can confidently build and test against.
• Document business rules, configuration needs, data mappings, configuration/reference data, and UI behaviors as needed.
• Maintain and evolve artifacts such as process flows, use cases, data flows, and product models.
• Assess the business impact of proposed changes and help stakeholders understand implications and dependencies.
• Partner with Product Owner(s) to break down features into value‑focused deliverables (MVPs) and define incremental delivery.

• Partner closely with developers, testers, and configuration teams to ensure solutions align with intended business outcomes.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and ongoing delivery activities by clarifying intent and answering questions.
• Validate implemented solutions against requirements and support user acceptance activities.
• Manage and prioritize assigned work to meet delivery commitments and deadlines.

• Look beyond individual stories to identify patterns, root causes, systemic issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Help improve how requirements are gathered, documented, and communicated across teams.
• Contribute to consistent analysis practices, templates, and standards across IT.

• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to break down complex problems into clear, actionable components.
• Proven experience eliciting and documenting business and…