Business Analyst (Fraud Analytics & Investigative Support)

About the role

Praescient Analytics is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support advanced fraud analytics and investigative initiatives for a federal oversight organization. This individual will serve as the bridge between Government stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Government stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and analytical requirements.
• Translate fraud detection, investigative, oversight, and program integrity objectives into user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, and technical artifacts.
• Support development and refinement of analytic use cases that leverage data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), graph analytics, dashboards, and investigative reporting.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder meetings, backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning activities, demonstrations, and solution reviews.
• Document business processes, workflows, data flows, process improvements, and operational concepts supporting fraud analytics initiatives.
• Work closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Graph Data Scientists, Investigative Analysts, and Forensic Accountants to clarify requirements and ensure technical solutions align with mission objectives.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle and verify delivered capabilities satisfy stakeholder expectations.
• Prepare project documentation, meeting summaries, decision logs, implementation plans, status reports, briefing materials, and stakeholder-ready deliverables.
• Support quality assurance activities by reviewing deliverables for completeness, consistency, and alignment with documented requirements.
• Auxiliary in evaluating data sources, analytical capabilities, commercial tools, and technology solutions that support fraud detection and investigative missions.

Requirements

• Three (3) or more years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Requirements Analyst, Data Analyst, or similar role supporting analytics, data-driven solutions, or government technology programs.
• Must have experience with Fraud Analysis.
• Experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and functional requirements for technical or analytical solutions.
• Experience supporting Agile software development or analytics teams through sprint planning, backlog management, demonstrations, and iterative solution delivery.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities while coordinating across technical and business stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex analytical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and facilitation skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in fraud detection, fraud prevention, financial crimes, program integrity, investigative support, or government oversight initiatives.
• Working with federal benefit programs, grants, loans, healthcare, unemployment insurance, emergency assistance, disaster relief, or other large-scale public-sector programs.
• Collaborating with Offices of Inspector General (OIGs), law enforcement organizations, auditors, investigators, or government oversight stakeholders.
• Supporting multidisciplinary delivery teams that include Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Investigative Analysts, Forensic Accountants, and Project Managers.
• Supporting analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), graph analytics, dashboards, or data visualization projects.
• Understanding data sources, data quality, ETL processes, cloud analytics environments, and enterprise data management concepts.
• Utilizing collaboration and project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, SQL, or comparable platforms.
• Supporting enterprise data governance, data privacy, information sensitivity, and secure handling of government or investigative information.
• Preparation of executive briefings, requirements documentation, implementation plans, process flows, and stakeholder-facing communications for Government customers.