Senior Business Analyst

About the role

The Senior Business Analyst partners with business and technology teams to deliver solutions that support the strategic vision for Financial Professionals. This role partners closely with business stakeholders and technology teams to elicit, analyze, document, and validate requirements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business processes and workflows to identify objectives, opportunities, and requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to gather, analyze, and document business, functional, and technical requirements, including business cases, use cases, and process flows.
• Facilitate business process definition through eliciting input from multiple teams, ensuring any modifications are accurately documented and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Communicate requirements effectively to cross-functional stakeholders, including business units, development teams, and quality assurance teams.
• Aid the Change Management team to analyze requests and translate into stakeholder impacts, help guide timing, and think through importance of pilot needs, if relevant.
• Identify and articulate assumptions, constraints, risks, and issues identified during analysis.
• Develop estimates to support project planning, timelines, and milestones.
• Communicate project progress, milestones, and deliverables to project managers and team members.
• Collaborate with project managers, business teams, and vendors to ensure timely completion of deliverables across all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Produce detailed functional specifications for development, including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms.
• Support issue identification, tracking, and resolution across business and technical domains.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members and fellow business analysts.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to business units by contributing to the development and continuous improvement of business processes.
• Maintain expertise across multiple business domains and understand their integration points across systems and departments.
• Escalate gaps, risks, or issues to the Product Owner and Project Manager as appropriate.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience within Waterfall and/or Agile software development environments, preferably in a Business Analyst or Product Owner role.
• Proven experience working on large-scale, enterprise-level initiatives and collaborating across cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Experience within the Financial Services industry.
• Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Effective written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language.
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Strong customer service orientation with a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and develop solutions in ambiguous environments.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior leadership on product and technical topics.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence and build consensus across departments.
• Solid understanding of the Project Management Lifecycle and methodologies.
• Familiarity with software testing practices and procedures.
• Foundational knowledge of application and database development concepts.
• Strong leadership, networking, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Demonstrated understanding of supported business lines and associated objectives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Significant practical experience will be considered.

Skills

• Agile methodologies.
• Business process definition.
• Change management.
• Collaboration.
• Communication.
• Customer service.
• Project management.
• Software development.
• Technical documentation.
• Workforce management.

Benefits

Our competitive compensation is just one component of Osaic’s total compensation package. Additional benefits include health, vision, dental insurance, 401k, paid time away, volunteer days and much more. To view more details of what you can look forward to, visit our careers page: Osaic Benefits.

Pay

$95,000 - $115,000 per year + annual performance-based bonus

Schedule

Actual compensation offered will be determined individually, based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, licensure, experience, and education. Osaic has returned to the office on a hybrid schedule requiring a minimum of 4 days weekly in the office.