Business Analyst

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm providing technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. They are seeking a Business Analyst to support a financial services product team by eliciting and managing requirements, modeling processes, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders from discovery through implementation and validation.

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

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Medical (choice of 3 plans) for W2 employees regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week

Dental for W2 employees regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week

Vision for W2 employees regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week

Pre-tax accounts for W2 employees regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week

Other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance for W2 employees regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week

401(k) with match for W2 employees regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week

Sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality

$1,000 referral check if a referred candidate is hired

Company

Strategic consulting in technology, business advisory, and life sciences.

North Reading, Massachusetts, USA

http://www.eliassen.com/

Founded in 1989

1001-5000 employees

Qualifications

• Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis
• 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
• 5–7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or in a related requirements, product delivery, or process analysis role within financial services.

Required skills

Represents the skills you have, click on the tags, Financial Services, Requirements Elicitation, Process Analysis, Process Modeling, Gap Analysis, Requirements Validation, Requirements Traceability, Change Impact Assessment, Defect Triage, Data Flows and Integrations

Experience

5+ years