Business Analyst
Job in
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listed on 2026-09-04
Listing for:
Eliassen Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-04
Job specializations:
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Business
Business Systems & Technology Analysis, Business Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Description:
On-site in New York, NY
Our client seeks a Business Analyst to support a fast-moving product team delivering a new, visible financial services program. The role operates within an Agile pod alongside a Product Owner, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders. The analyst will translate complex business needs into clear requirements and remain engaged from discovery through implementation and validation.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $85.00 to $95.00/hr. w2
JN
-92
Responsibilities:
- Lead requirements elicitation through stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and working groups, clarifying business needs, rules, assumptions, and success criteria.
- Analyze current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and document clear process flows and business rules.
- Translate business needs into detailed requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, data definitions, and functional specifications that clearly define what must be built.
- Manage the requirements lifecycle by maintaining traceability, assessing the impact of changes, resolving ambiguities, and keeping approved artifacts current.
- Partner with product, engineering, quality assurance, operations, legal, and external stakeholders to validate requirements and ensure shared understanding before and during implementation.
- Support solution validation and UAT by defining test scenarios, reviewing results, triaging defects, and confirming that delivered functionality meets agreed business outcomes.
- Identify requirement gaps, inconsistencies, and implementation risks early, and drive them to resolution to minimize rework.
- 5-7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or in a related requirements, product delivery, or process analysis role within financial services.
- Demonstrated experience leading requirements elicitation, current-state and future-state analysis, process modeling, gap analysis, and requirements validation.
- Experience managing requirements through delivery, including traceability, change-impact assessment, test scenario development, UAT support, defect triage, and validation of delivered outcomes.
- Technical fluency and curiosity, with the ability to understand system interactions, data flows, integrations, and constraints and collaborate effectively with engineers.
- Clear, concise written communication and strong requirements discipline across decisions, assumptions, approved artifacts, and traceability.
- An analytical, delivery-focused, and collaborative approach that turns ambiguity into practical solutions and raises issues early.
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position.
All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in…
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