Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Holley Performance Brands is seeking an seasoned IT Business Analyst to serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and IT project teams across the full portfolio of IT initiatives. This role is responsible for ensuring that business needs are clearly understood, documented, translated into actionable functional requirements, and validated throughout the project lifecycle.The Business Analyst will work with business leaders, process owners, subject matter experts, end users, project managers, architects, developers, vendors, and testing teams. The successful candidate will bring structure to ambiguous requests, challenge assumptions constructively, and help ensure that technology solutions solve the right business problems and deliver measurable value.This is a hands-on business analysis role supporting all IT projects.  Role Purpose The Business Analyst bridges the gap between the business and IT. The role begins with understanding the business objective and documenting the Business Requirements Document (BRD), then translating those approved requirements into detailed functional requirements and supporting the development of the Functional Requirements Document (FRD). The Business Analyst maintains traceability from the original business need through solution design, build, testing, deployment, and post-implementation review.The role also leads continues improvements to the quality and consistency of IT project delivery by establishing practical business analysis standards, reviewing project deliverables, identifying gaps early, and ensuring that requirements, designs, test cases, and delivered solutions remain aligned. Key Responsibilities

Business Partnership and Requirements Discovery

• Partner with business stakeholders to define project objectives, desired outcomes, pain points, process gaps, policy constraints, compliance needs, data requirements, reporting needs, and operational impacts.
• Plan and facilitate interviews, workshops, process walk-throughs, discovery sessions, and working meetings with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Distinguish true business needs from proposed solutions, preferences, or symptoms, and help stakeholders prioritize requirements based on business value, risk, urgency, and feasibility.
• Identify affected stakeholders, business processes, systems, data, controls, integrations, and upstream or downstream dependencies.

Business and Functional Requirements

• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, prioritize, baseline, and manage business requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Create clear and complete Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) that define the business problem, objectives, scope, stakeholders, current state, future-state needs, assumptions, constraints, risks, business rules, and success criteria.
• Translate approved business requirements into detailed functional requirements and collaborate with solution architects, developers, vendors, and technical analysts to produce or validate Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs).
• Develop supporting artifacts such as user stories, use cases, process maps, data definitions, interface requirements, report specifications, acceptance criteria, decision logs, and requirements matrices.
• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability from the BRD through the FRD, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and final business acceptance.
• Manage requirement changes through the agreed change-control process and clearly communicate impacts to scope, schedule, cost, risk, testing, and business readiness.

Process Analysis and Solution Validation

• Document and analyze current-state and future-state business processes, including roles, handoffs, systems, controls, data inputs and outputs, exception paths, and performance measures.
• Identify root causes, process inefficiencies, control gaps, and opportunities for simplification, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with IT teams to review proposed solution designs and confirm they address the approved business requirements without introducing unnecessary complexity.
• Facilitate business review and sign-off of requirements, process designs, functional specifications, and other key project deliverables.
• Assess solution options and trade-offs using business value, user impact, risk, maintainability, compliance, and total cost considerations.

Testing, Readiness, and Implementation Support

• Define business test scenarios and acceptance criteria directly from approved requirements and process flows.
• Write or review User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test cases and confirm that each requirement is covered by appropriate testing.
• Prepare business users for UAT by clarifying expected outcomes, test data needs, roles, and issue-reporting procedures.
• Support defect triage by clarifying the intended business outcome, requirement source, priority, and impact.
• Validate that the delivered solution meets the approved business and functional requirements before business acceptance.
• Support implementation readiness, cutover planning, deployment, stabilization, and post-implementation reviews as needed.

IT Project Delivery Quality and Standards

• Help establish and lead continuous improvements of practical standards, templates, checklists, and governance for business analysis and requirements management across all IT projects.
• Review project requirements, functional specifications, process documentation, test artifacts, and related deliverables for completeness, clarity, consistency, traceability, and business alignment.
• Identify requirement gaps, conflicting assumptions, unclear ownership, missing acceptance criteria, and other delivery risks early enough for the project team to correct them.
• Coach project teams and business stakeholders on effective requirements practices, documentation standards, decision-making, and business acceptance.
• Capture lessons learned and convert them into reusable practices that improve the quality, predictability, and efficiency of future IT project delivery.
• Provide clear status updates, risk and issue summaries, decision materials, and recommendations to project managers and leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5-8 years of progressive experience as an IT Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Functional Analyst, or similar role supporting technology-enabled business change.
• Demonstrated experience creating BRDs, functional requirements, process maps, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Proven ability to facilitate requirements workshops, analyze complex business processes, resolve ambiguity, and translate business needs into clear specifications for technical teams.
• Experience supporting solution design reviews, UAT planning and execution, defect triage, implementation readiness, and business acceptance.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, organization, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities while maintaining attention to detail and documentation quality.
• Ability to work independently, build trusted relationships, and constructively challenge stakeholders and project teams when requirements or proposed solutions are unclear.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in manufacturing, distribution, automotive aftermarket, consumer products, or another complex multi-site operational environment.
• Experience supporting a broad range of IT projects, such as application implementations, system enhancements, integrations, reporting and analytics, data initiatives, infrastructure changes, workflow automation, and cybersecurity or compliance initiatives.
• Knowledge of business analysis frameworks and practices, including BABOK concepts, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methods.
• Experience with process-mapping, requirements-management, collaboration, test-management, reporting, or work-management tools.
• Working knowledge of data concepts, system integrations, APIs, reporting, master data, internal controls, SOX, security, and audit requirements.
• Business analysis certification such as ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, PMI-PBA, or equivalent is a plus.

Core Competencies

• Business acumen and stakeholder partnership
• Requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation
• Business-to-technical translation
• Process analysis and continuous improvement
• Facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
• Quality focus, attention to detail, and accountability
• Clear communication and executive-ready documentation
• Adaptability, curiosity, and sound judgment

Measures of Success

• Business requirements are complete, approved, and understood before solution design and development begin.
• Functional requirements accurately reflect approved business needs and are usable by the IT delivery team.
• Requirements remain traceable through design, testing, deployment, and business acceptance.
• Rework, missed requirements, avoidable defects, and late-stage scope surprises are reduced.
• Business stakeholders have confidence that delivered solutions meet their needs and produce the intended outcomes.
• IT project deliverables become more consistent, complete, and decision-ready over time.

 

Why Holley Is a Great Place to Work 

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