Advanced Business Analyst

Location: Northern

## Advanced Business Analyst Apply locations:
Rosemont, ILtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
261151

Wintrust provides community and commercial banking, specialty finance and wealth management services through its 16 bank charters and nine non-bank businesses. Wintrust delivers the sophisticated solutions of a large bank while staying true to the relationship-focused, personalized service of our community banking roots. We serve clients in all 50 states with more than 200 branch banking locations in Illinois, southwestern Florida, northwestern Indiana, west Michigan and southern Wisconsin and commercial banking offices in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Mich.,

and in key branch banking locations throughout Illinois. Our people are the heart of our business and we are proud to rank consistently as a top place to work. Wintrust is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, and listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “WTFC.”Why join us?
* An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 8 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years)
* Competitive pay and discretionary bonus eligible
* Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few
* Promote from within culture

Why join this team?
* We stress the importance of teamwork and learning from each other so the team always exceeds business expectations
* We are a dynamic and growing team that plays a critical role at Wintrust.
* We foster a culture of collaboration, empowerment, responsibility and accomplishment.
* We hold ourselves accountable to high standards, share wins, operate ethically, and have fun during the process
* This role offers the ability to make an impact and interface with the various aspects of Wintrust’s businesses lines

Position Summary The Advanced Business Analyst is a mid-level business analysis position and serves as a highly skilled business analysis professional responsible for leading business analysis activities and facilitating the successful delivery of technology and business solutions across multiple initiatives, programs, and business units. This role acts as a strategic liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring that business needs are accurately understood, documented, prioritized, and translated into effective solutions that deliver business value.

The Advanced Business Analyst partners closely with business leaders, product owners, architects, developers, project managers, and vendors to identify opportunities, solve complex business challenges, and drive successful project outcomes. This role combines strong business analysis expertise with Agile delivery leadership, support solution design activities, stakeholder engagement, and quality assurance activities.

The successful candidate will facilitate Agile ceremonies, lead requirements discovery and solution design sessions, develop business and functional requirements, create user stories and acceptance criteria, support testing activities, ensure alignment between business objectives and technology deliverables. The role requires strong analytical thinking, exceptional communication, presentation, and organizational skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders while working across cross-functional teams in both Agile and traditional delivery environments.

What You’ll Do Business Analysis & Requirements Management
* Elicit, analyze, validate, document, and manage business, functional, technical, and non-functional requirements.
* Translate complex business needs into actionable user stories, epics, features, process flows, business rules, use cases, and functional specifications.
* Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements review meetings.
* Develop Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), requirements traceability matrices, and supporting project artifacts.
* Analyze and document current-state and future-state business processes and…