Business Analyst - Business Analyst II

Business Analyst - Business Analyst II

Location: Culver City, California (Onsite)

COMPENSATION: $28 - $38 HOURLY

Role Overview

This role provides dedicated build capacity to lead the onboarding of forecasting models into a financial forecasting platform. The Business Analyst will act as the bridge between Finance stakeholders and engineering teams, translating finance reporting requirements and model logic into technical specifications, coordinating implementation, and owning user acceptance testing. The objective is to produce documentation for each model build and establish a repeatable model-onboarding framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and document finance reporting requirements from Finance stakeholders and translate them into technical specifications for implementation.
• Define data requirements and source-data contracts for each model, identifying gaps between model requirements and current system capabilities to propose solutions.
• Wireframe and propose UI/UX for forecast adjustment execution, ensuring users access only necessary adjustments with full reporting after updates.
• Partner with engineering to design, build, test, and deploy model updates to the platform.
• Define and execute UAT plans, validating that system changes produce expected and financially correct outputs before production release.
• Document business rules, calculation logic, and data lineage for onboarded forecasting dimensions.
• Identify gaps in the platform's validation checks and work with Data Science and Data Engineering teams to close them.
• Trace metric discrepancies across reporting surfaces back to pipeline or system-level root causes.
• Manage the engineering ticket queue from intake to closure, prioritizing work based on business priority in partnership with the Finance team.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 4 to 6 years as a Business or Systems Analyst in finance systems or enterprise planning tools. Direct experience translating business requirements into technical specifications for engineering teams is required. Candidates must have a demonstrated ability to assess existing business processes and design improved workflows, including wireframing and UI/UX proposals. Experience with UAT planning and execution is also necessary.

Technical Skills: Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling, and scenario analysis, are required. A working knowledge of SQL to query relational databases for data validation and lineage tracing is also needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TM1, Planning Analytics, or Apliqo.
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines and data warehouse concepts.
• Familiarity with FP&A concepts such as forecasting, actuals vs. plan variance, and dimensional modeling.
• Experience in media, streaming, or subscription business models.

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