Lead Business Analyst

The Engineering Enablement team is part of Technology Design & Integration (TechDI), a function that plays a critical role in supporting Thomson Reuters' transformation into an operating and content driven technology company. TechDI enables better strategic decision making, prioritisation, and business design across the enterprise by applying industry standard frameworks, methods, and tools to drive alignment and improve both customer and colleague experiences.

Within TechDI, Engineering Enablement bridges high level business intent and build ready technical execution for complex, cross system initiatives. The team ensures early alignment, decision clarity, and execution readiness by translating business needs into structured detailed requirements, technical designs, and traceable delivery artefacts.

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will play a critical role in a large, strategic program focused on further modernizing and aligning our technology stack. The role focuses on understanding, validating, and driving alignment and standardisation across Finance and Reporting related business requirements, ensuring consistency, traceability, and readiness for downstream delivery. You will partner closely with Finance, Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Program teams to clarify complex requirements, resolve cross system dependencies, and drive shared understanding across stakeholders.

Acting as a trusted thought partner, you will help shape scalable, standardised approaches to business requirements, reporting definitions, and design decisions that can be reused across initiatives and portfolios.

• Lead the analysis, validation, and standardisation of complex business requirements, with a strong focus on Finance, Reporting, and cross system data dependencies.
• Translate high level business scenarios and policies into clear, structured, and traceable functional and technical requirements that are ready for execution.
• Drive alignment across Finance, Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Delivery teams by facilitating working sessions, decision forums, and design reviews.
• Own and maintain key design and requirements artefacts, including business scenarios, service blueprints, traceability matrices, and feature‑product mapping.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and variances across requirements, systems, and reporting models, and proactively drive resolution and standardisation.
• Support adoption of standard frameworks, taxonomies, and tooling (e.g., ADO structures, traceability models) to improve delivery consistency and reporting transparency.
• Provide thought leadership on business analysis and business architecture concepts, ensuring designs align to enterprise principles while remaining pragmatic and delivery focused.
• Partner closely with Delivery and Program leads to ensure requirements and decisions support stage‑gate readiness, sequencing, and risk mitigation.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly through executive‑ready materials, summaries, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline; an advanced degree is considered an asset.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, technical/functional analysis, or related roles within complex, technology enabled environments.
• Proven ability to lead highly complex, cross‑functional initiatives involving Finance, Technology, and Data domains.
• Strong understanding of business architecture and business analysis concepts, including process modelling, requirements decomposition, decision traceability, and operating model considerations.
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple systems and platforms, with the ability to reason about end‑to‑end impacts and dependencies.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with confidence influencing senior leaders and navigating ambiguity.
• Highly structured and analytical, with the ability to synthesise complex information into clear insights and actionable outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise, executive level documentation and presentations.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced,…