Business Analyst

Business Analyst

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

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.

Experience Requirements:

• 57+ 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.

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 pay outside of the provided range. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

About Eliassen Group: Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve. Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!