Business Analyst

Job#: 3026678

Job Description:

Lead Business Analyst

Large Banking Cleint

W2 - Contract to Hire

Hybrid schedule, 4x/week onsite in Columbus, Ohio

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst in Banking/Financial Services industry
• Prior experience as a Lead BSA or Functional Lead
• Exposure to banking regulatory reporting (e.g., financial, capital, liquidity, or risk reporting)
• Solid finance domain knowledge, particularly within Corporate Finance
• Hands-on experience with:
  • SQL
  • ETL processes and data pipelines
  • Python (for data analysis, validation, or automation)
• Strong understanding of:
  • Data lineage and data governance
  • Source-to-target mappings and transformations
  • Data controls and reconciliation
• Experience supporting production environments in regulated settings
• Change management experience
• Strong documentation skills (BRDs, FRDs, data mapping, lineage diagrams)
• Agile environment experience
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Snowflake
• Datastage
• Experience working within Corporate Finance or Regulatory Reporting IT teams
• Prior experience supporting audits and regulatory examinations

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced BSA Lead to support our IT Corporate Finance Regulatory Reporting team. This role will lead business systems analysis efforts across regulatory reporting initiatives, ensuring high-quality data, compliance with banking regulations, and successful delivery of complex financial data solutions. The ideal candidate has strong finance domain knowledge, hands-on data and analytics experience, and proven leadership in agile and hybrid delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee Business Systems Analysis activities for regulatory reporting initiatives within Corporate Finance.
• Act as the primary liaison between Finance, Regulatory, Data Engineering, and IT teams.
• Drive requirements gathering, documentation, and validation for regulatory reporting solutions.
• Lead change management efforts, including impact analysis, stakeholder communication, and release coordination.
• Provide production support leadership, including issue triage, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Ensure strong understanding and documentation of data lineage, data sourcing, transformations, and controls.
• Partner with data engineering teams to support ETL pipelines, data quality checks, and reconciliation.
• Review and validate regulatory reporting outputs for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Support audits, regulatory exams, and internal risk/compliance reviews.
• Mentor junior BSAs and provide day-to-day functional leadership.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives).
• Coordinate across hybrid delivery models (Agile + Waterfall).

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.