Lead Business Analyst

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, prioritization, 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 artifacts.

About the Role

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. This role focuses on understanding, validating, and driving alignment and standardization 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, standardized approaches to business requirements, reporting definitions, and design decisions that can be reused across initiatives and portfolios.

In this opportunity as Lead Business Analyst, you will:

• Lead the analysis, validation, and standardization 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 artifacts, 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 standardization.
• Support adoption of standard frameworks, taxonomies, and tooling, including ADO structures and traceability models, to improve delivery consistency and reporting transparency.
• Provide thought leadership on business analysis and business architecture concepts, ensuring designs align with 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.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Lead Business Analyst if your background includes:

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline; an advanced degree is considered an asset.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, technical analysis, 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 modeling, requirements decomposition, decision traceability, and operating model considerations.
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple systems and platforms, with the ability to assess end-to-end impacts and dependencies.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with confidence influencing senior leaders and navigating ambiguity.
• A highly structured and analytical approach, with the ability to synthesize 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.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment while driving standards, consistency, and quality.
• Confidence facilitating workshops with diverse stakeholder groups.
• A collaborative, team-focused approach, with a willingness to take initiative.
• Energy, drive, enthusiasm, and strong relationship-building skills.
• Experience working in a large software or business information company is a plus.

What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer