Senior Business Analyst

Job role: Senior Business Analyst

Location: Dallas, TX

Duration: 6 months+

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage business analysis efforts for Technology, specifically expense management and budgeting.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Finance and Technology teams) to review new budget and approval to spend requests, to ensure alignment to existing financials:
• Able to offer guidance and best practices while collaborating; requires strong executive presence.

• Facilitate meetings, presentations, and updates for senior management and other key stakeholders. Able to lead by influencing these stakeholder groups.
• Very detail oriented.
• Manage and update budget items throughout the year; able to analyze and understand changes and impacts based on movement in the budget.
• Assist BMO team lead(s) by providing support and oversight to junior team members and assisting as lead when needed.
• Ability to query databases, perform data validation, and troubleshoot reporting anomalies.
• Act as a point of contact for the BMO, ensuring excellent customer service to internal stakeholders while balancing efficiency.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment while understanding the underlying risks to help re-prioritize work.
• Able to create new business processes and continuously improve upon existing processes, reports, and methodologies to increase efficiency and quality of deliverables.
• Ability to be detail-oriented but also understand and communicate the key messages hidden in the data to face off with various Technology leaders.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in financial analysis within the banking or financial services sector. However, this is not a finance role.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders; ability to draw out key messages from the data while tying the data back to business needs of the Technology team.
• Strong data analysis experience and knowledge of expense management and budgeting processes.
• Able to lead and coach team members.
• Critical thinker with strong organizational skills and detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple efforts concurrently while ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and work independently.