Business Analyst

About The Role

As a Business Analyst at Baird, you will play a highly visible, impactful role at the intersection of business and technology, helping shape solutions that drive meaningful outcomes across the firm. We are seeking individuals who bring curiosity, creativity, and sound judgment to operate effectively in a complex, fast-moving environment, and who are energized by turning ambiguity into clarity. This role is designed for individuals who want to move beyond traditional requirements gathering and act as a true partner to the business, translating evolving needs into clear direction for delivery teams and influencing outcomes along the way.

Impact You'll Make

• Drive business analysis efforts across a wide range of initiatives, including new capabilities, platform enhancements, operational improvements, and data/reporting solutions.
• Plan and execute discovery activities for complex initiatives, identifying stakeholders, clarifying objectives, and helping clearly articulate success measures in environments with evolving or incomplete information.
• Translate business needs into high-quality artifacts such as documented business requirements, process flows, context diagrams, stakeholder maps, and user stories that enable efficient delivery and clear decision-making.
• Maintain focus on outcomes and value, ensuring day-to-day work remains aligned to business priorities and strategic intent.
• Assess initiative complexity and guide teams in selecting and applying appropriate delivery approaches, balancing structure with flexibility to deliver value efficiently.
• Lead requirements validation and acceptance to ensure delivered solutions meet intended business outcomes.

What You'll Bring To Baird

• 7+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years in Business Analysis.
• Experience working on projects related to the creation, support, and enhancement of web applications. Financial services experience strongly preferred.
• Strong experience with writing business requirements, use cases, and user stories.
• Previous experience with data analysis including writing SQL queries and interpreting results to help answer business questions, troubleshoot, and support client data needs.
• Proven ability to quickly learn new business domains and translate complexity into clarity.
• Experience working in agile or iterative delivery environments.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• High degree of self-motivation, resilience, and emotional intelligence.
• Curiosity and experience leveraging AI tools to enhance analysis and delivery (e.g., M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, ChatGPT, Claude, Snowflake Cortex).