Job Description
We are looking for a Business Analyst to join a fast-moving product team delivering a new, highly visible financial services program. This is a multi-phase program currently in Phase 1, with additional phases planned after the initial go-live. Working within an Agile pod alongside the Product Owner, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will translate complex business needs into clear requirements and remain engaged from discovery through implementation and validation.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead requirements elicitation through stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and working groups, clarifying business needs, rules, assumptions, and success criteria.
- Analyze current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and document clear process flows and business rules.
- Translate business needs into detailed requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, data definitions, and functional specifications that clearly define what must be built.
- Manage the requirements lifecycle by maintaining traceability, assessing the impact of changes, resolving ambiguities, and keeping approved artifacts current.
- Partner with product, engineering, quality assurance, operations, legal, and external stakeholders to validate requirements and ensure shared understanding before and during implementation.
- Support solution validation and UAT by defining test scenarios, reviewing results, triaging defects, and confirming that delivered functionality meets agreed business outcomes.
- Identify requirement gaps, inconsistencies, and implementation risks early, and drive them to resolution to minimize rework.
Required Skills/Experience
- 5 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or in a related requirements, product delivery, or process analysis role within financial services.
- Demonstrated experience leading requirements elicitation, current-state and future-state analysis, process modeling, gap analysis, and requirements validation.
- Experience managing requirements through delivery, including traceability, change-impact assessment, test scenario development, UAT support, defect triage, and validation of delivered outcomes.
- Technical fluency and curiosity, with the ability to understand system interactions, data flows, integrations, and constraints and collaborate effectively with engineers.
- Clear, concise written communication and strong requirements discipline across decisions, assumptions, approved artifacts, and traceability.
- An analytical, delivery-focused, and collaborative approach that turns ambiguity into practical solutions and raises issues early.
Additional Information
- Duration: 12 month contract opportunity
- Hybrid Work Model: 4 days onsite required weekly in NYC
- Shift: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM EST
- Rate Range: $90-95/hr. W2 (based on experience)