Senior IT Business​/Data Analyst

Location:

Deerfield Beach FL (Hybrid - 3 Days a week onsite)

Duration:6+ Months Contract

Needs an exceptionally strong

Business Analyst to support the creation of a digital tax hub focused ondiscretionary investments.

• Strong Business Analyst experience in complex financial environments
• High-level knowledge of tax, finance, investments, treasury, revenue, and strategic finance
• Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall environments
• Excellentdata and analytical skills
• Exceptional communication and executive presence
• Confidenceworking directly with business leaders, executives, and potentially C-suite stakeholders

This role requires someone who can understand complex business needs, translate them into clearrequirements, and communicate effectively across both technical andnontechnical teams.

The Senior IT Business/Data Analyst Contractor serves as a bridge between business stakeholders,technology teams, data teams, vendors, and enterprise partners. This role supports a broad portfolio of work that includes projects, discretionaryvalue-add initiatives (eg technology reviews, process improvements,reporting needs, integrations, operational readiness activities and existing application support. The position is expected to combine strong business analysis discipline with practical data analysis skills to clarify needs,evaluate options, define requirements, assess impacts, support decision-making,and ensure technology solutions deliver measurable business value.

• Lead structured discovery,requirements elicitation, and alignment discussions with business,technical, vendor, application support, and leadership stakeholders.
• Translate business goals, pain points, improvement opportunities, risks, and operational needs into clear business, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, integration,enhancement, and support requirements.
• Develop and maintain high-quality analysis artifacts, including As-Is and To-Be process flows,user journeys, business rules, decision matrices, source-to-target mappings, data definitions, enhancement backlogs, acceptance criteria, andtraceability documentation.
• Use AI-enabled productivity andanalysis tools responsibly to accelerate documentation, synthesizestakeholder input, identify patterns or gaps, support backlog refinement,and improve requirements quality while validating outputs with humanjudgment.
• Assess opportunities for automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities by helping definebusiness value, feasibility, risks, controls, success measures, and adoption considerations.
• Support technology reviews,vendor evaluations, solution comparisons, application assessments, RFI/RFPactivities, evaluation scorecards, and recommendation packages.
• Perform detailed data analysis to validate business assumptions, assess data quality, identify trends oranomalies, support reporting and integration needs, and confirm thatsolution outputs align with business expectations.
• Partner with architects,developers, data engineers, security, risk, and operations teams toclarify requirements, resolve design questions, define dependencies, andensure solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and maintainable.
• Support Agile, Waterfall,hybrid, and operational delivery models by contributing to backlogmanagement, sprint readiness, enhancement intake, prioritization,acceptance criteria, change impact analysis, release readiness, andvalue-based decision-making.
• Ensure end-to-end requirementstraceability across scope, design, development, testing, deployment,training, and post-implementation value realization.
• Lead UAT planning and executionsupport, including test scenario development, stakeholder coordination,defect triage, issue resolution, and sign-off readiness.
• Communicate complex technical,data, and process topics in
  clear business terms
  andtailor messaging for executives, project teams, vendors, and end users.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or arelated field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of experience as aBusiness Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Data Analyst, orsimilar role supporting IT projects, enhancements, application changes, or operational technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead requirements discovery/elicitation, stakeholder facilitation, processanalysis, data analysis, solution definition, impact analysis, andcross-functional alignment for complex business and technology needs.
• Strong experience developingbusiness, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, integration, and acceptance requirements.
• Strong data analysis skills,including the ability to profile data, identify trends or anomalies,validate outputs, define business rules, and support source-to-target mapping.
• Experience working with enterprise systems, APIs, integrations, data flows, reporting platforms,or migration efforts.
• Working knowledge of Agile,Waterfall, and hybrid delivery…