Job Title: Business Analyst - Mastery
Duration: 6 Months contract
Location - Boston/Springfield
Duties: Key Responsibilities
Participate in all phases of the development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, design, build, testing, implementation, and ongoing support.
Collaborate with business teams to understand pain points and inefficiencies by conducting stakeholder interviews, workshops, and documenting current-state processes to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
Elicit, analyze, translate, and decompose high-level business and user requirements into well-defined functional specifications and user stories.
Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and development teams, ensuring shared understanding and alignment throughout delivery.
Analyze and validate business systems and data to ensure accuracy, integrity, and fitness for purpose.
Document business, functional, and technical requirements, including business and technical process flows.
Complete source-to-target mappings/diagrams to support data movement, reporting, and downstream consumption.
Rationalize and validate requirements against design standards, system guidelines, and application best practices.
Develop technical scopes of work and support the execution of projects and product changes in response to stakeholder needs.
Facilitate and document discussions to provide sufficient information for decision-making, including risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
Communicate progress, findings, and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders, and provide support and training during solution rollouts.
Collaborate effectively with peers across geographies and time zones, managing competing priorities to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Skills: Required Qualifications & Skills
Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Information Systems, or another analytical field.
6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, or Data Analyst.
Strong experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements with cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated ability to understand and interpret stakeholder needs and translate them into effective metrics, reports, and system requirements.
Solid blend of technical expertise and business acumen, with the ability to apply judgment to balance process compliance with business objectives.
Strong logical reasoning, problem-solving, and analytical skills, with attention to detail and an outcome-oriented mindset.
Proven ability to manage priorities, adhere to project schedules, and meet delivery deadlines.
Ideal Qualifications: Understands the fundamentals of the financial services industry and applies that knowledge to effectively elicit, document, and interpret business requirements, ensuring clarity, completeness, and alignment with regulatory and business objectives. Strong written, oral, and collaborative communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey objectives, plans, status, and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.