Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

Location: CityScape

As a Senior Business Analyst you'll collaborate across the organization and lead the analysis of complex business challenges for your assigned business lines, serving as a strategic partner and subject matter expert in systems, processes, procedures, products, and services. You'll drive operational efficiency, optimize workflows, and provide high-level analytical insights to support data-driven decision-making. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure business initiatives align with organizational strategy while fostering continuous improvement.

• Partner with stakeholders to define business requirements, assess impacts, and prioritize initiatives, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
• Lead efforts to document evaluate, and enhance business processes and procedures. Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements. Design and manage complex reports, synthesize large datasets, and develop actionable insights that support executive decision-making.
• Oversee change management initiatives by developing communication plans and ensuring smooth adoption of process and system changes.
• Act as a liaison between business units, technology teams, and leadership to drive alignment, resolve challenges, and ensure successful project execution.

What you'll need:

• 6+ years of related experience.
• High school diploma required; Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with data analysis and research with the ability to identify and escalate cases or inquiries to mitigate bank risks.
• Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Office Suite.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with banking applications and systems preferred.
• Intermediate speaking and writing communication skills.

Benefits you'll love: We offer all the important things you'd want like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company: Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank that remain part of the company's heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation

Western Alliance Bancorporation