.Overview:**Responsibilities**:- The Sr. Change Analyst is a key member of the Change Management team, primarily focused on technical pre- and post-implementation review of changes to ensure regulatory compliance.- Pre-implementation review will verify the technical accuracy of documentation and potential impact of changes are properly documented and tested prior to implementation in a Production environment.- Post-Implementation Review (PIR) will investigate changes, including logs, audit trails, event records, system configurations, and other technical artifacts, to create an independent technical audit of changes implemented on regulated systems.- Perform PIR on both successful and unsuccessful changes.- Ensure technical documentation on changes meets audit, regulatory and safeguard compliance requirements.- Access systems, as needed, to locate, collect, and review technical evidence needed to support PIR documentation.- Create PIR documentation for changes, validating changes were implemented in the Production environment as written, with no steps missing or added, and within the documented timeline.- Because PIR documentation will require reviewing multiple systems and technologies, a broad technical background with some experience with working with log files, scripting and/or coding is required.- Review change records against logs, audit trails, event records, system configurations, and other technical artifacts to ensure changes are being completed for changes.- Identify patterns or areas of change non-compliance and report them to the Change Manager to be escalated and addressed.- Identify opportunities for automation of change documentation, validation, testing, review, and/or approvals.Assist with the other normal processes within Change Management, including:- Review Request for Change (RFC) submissions by the change owner.- Assess the risk and impact of changes made to the production environment as part of change standardization.- Perform change auditing functions in support of governance and compliance requirements including, but not limited to, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), GrammLeach-Bliley Act (FTC Safeguard Rule), SOC1, SOC2, etc.- Facilitate Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.- Ensure all necessary communication; documentation and testing are done prior to approval.- Request for a review f rom technical peer who will ensure that all technical steps are appropriate and correct.- Approve or Deny the Request for Change based on Oportun Change Policy.- Processing, reviewing, categorizing, documenting, and working with stakeholders to ensure clarity of change requests to configuration items being af fected.- Coordinating with Testing and Release Management staf f to manage change requests through all phases of their lifecycle.- Managing change requests through all phases of their lifecycle.- Administering the change request queue to ensure processing thresholds are achieved