Business Analyst

• Job Title: Business Analyst IT
• Location: Torrance, CA
• Work Type: Onsite (4 days/week)

• Key Responsibilities
• Collaborate with project/ team managers and business sponsors/stakeholders to document and understand business scope, vision, business objectives, and benefits.
• Analyze complex business problems and translate them into scalable, effective solutions
• Lead requirements gathering sessions with senior stakeholders and SMEs
• Conduct interviews, workshops, and process reviews to gather business needs, user requirements, use cases, and scenarios.
• Facilitate meetings, discussions, and presentations with stakeholders
• Ensure alignment between organizational strategy and business objectives, business and privacy goals, and project outcomes
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Analyze existing systems/processes and identify gaps, inefficiencies, or enhancement opportunities
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and product teams to design end-to-end solutions. Ensure solutions meet business requirements and are scalable and sustainable
• Ensure solutions adhere to privacy-by-design and data minimization principles
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Identify, create, and maintain a variety of business analysis deliverables including scope documents, business requirements documents (BRDs), process flows, workflow diagrams, and mock-ups
• Create clear, concise, and well-structured documentation to ensure requirements and processes are easily understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders and team members
• Communicate requirements clearly to cross-functional teams
• Lead UAT planning and execution
• Ensure requirements traceability from design through testing and implementation
• Validate that delivered solutions meet business needs, regulatory requirements, and internal privacy standards
• Support audit readiness and regulatory reviews

• Wants
• IS related bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT business analysis or related roles
• Proven experience leading requirements gathering and documentation for complex projects and cross-functional initiatives
• Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced ability to research, analyze impact, and suggest solutions for complex problems.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with privacy tools (OneTrust or similar)
• Knowledge of data governance, information security, or risk management frameworks
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (JIRA, Confluence)