Lead Business Systems Analyst

Job description

A leading organization is seeking a Lead Business Systems Analyst to connect business needs with technology solutions in an investment management environment. The Lead Business Systems Analyst will guide initiatives from requirements discovery through implementation, working closely with business stakeholders, software development teams, and quality assurance teams.

The position requires a combination of business analysis, systems analysis, SQL, and stakeholder management skills. The Lead Business Systems Analyst will translate business objectives into clear functional and technical requirements, analyze data, support testing, and help ensure solutions meet business needs.

Experience with private credit, private equity, or related investment environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and discovery sessions.
• Analyze business processes and translate business objectives into functional and technical requirements.
• Develop user stories, process flows, workflows, functional specifications, and supporting requirements documentation.
• Partner with software development, quality assurance, and business teams throughout solution design and delivery.
• Use SQL to perform data analysis, validation, and investigation in support of business and project needs.
• Coordinate testing activities, including test planning, defect tracking, requirements validation, and user acceptance testing.
• Serve as a connection between business stakeholders and technical teams throughout delivery.
• Support Agile and Scrum activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and requirements management.
• Identify business issues, project risks, dependencies, and requirements gaps.
• Lead assigned initiatives from initial requirements through implementation and delivery.

Required experience and skills

• Experience performing both business analysis and systems analysis.
• Strong requirements gathering, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews, workshops, and business process analysis.
• Ability to develop user stories, process flows, functional specifications, and technical requirements.
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills.
• Understanding of system architecture, data flows, integrations, and technical solution design.
• Experience converting business requirements into detailed technical specifications.
• Experience working across business and engineering teams.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog management, testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience working with CRM platforms used for relationship management.
• Knowledge of investment management environments such as private credit, private equity, venture capital, investment banking, or capital markets.
• Experience supporting data-driven analysis and reporting using SQL.
• Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams and stakeholders.