Senior Business Analyst

Kaeppel Consulting is in immediate need of an experienced Senior Business Analyst with strong banking and financial-services expertise to support one of our preferred clients with complex business and technology initiatives. This position will serve as a liaison among business stakeholders, product owners, technology teams, operations, risk, and compliance. This Sr. BA role is fully remote with the possibility of some travel to the client's location.

The ideal candidate will have advanced experience translating business objectives into clearly defined epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria. This individual must understand banking operations and be able to guide requirements through discovery, development, testing, implementation, and post-production support.

• Key Responsibilities
• Partner with business leaders, product owners, technology teams, operations, risk, compliance, and subject-matter experts to identify and document business needs.
• Lead stakeholder interviews, discovery meetings, requirements workshops, and process-mapping sessions.
• Translate complex banking requirements into well-structured epics, features, user stories, tasks, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Break large initiatives into manageable deliverables that provide measurable business value.
• Develop, organize, prioritize, and maintain product and program backlogs in partnership with product owners.
• Lead backlog-refinement sessions and ensure requirements are clearly defined and ready for development.
• Document business and functional requirements, process flows, use cases, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and traceability.
• Analyze current-state processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and recommend future-state solutions.
• Evaluate the impact of proposed changes on banking products, customers, employees, processes, systems, data, controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with technical teams throughout design and development to clarify requirements and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Support Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and program increment planning.
• Partner with quality-assurance teams to develop test scenarios, review test cases, manage defects, and coordinate user acceptance testing.
• Monitor requirements throughout the project lifecycle and manage changes through established governance processes.
• Support implementation planning, operational readiness, training, change management, and post-production validation.
• Present requirements, recommendations, risks, and project updates to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ensure solutions align with applicable banking regulations, internal policies, security standards, and risk-management controls.

• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ten or more years of Business Analyst experience, including significant experience in banking or financial services.
• Advanced experience developing and managing epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product backlogs.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to translate high-level business objectives into detailed, actionable requirements.
• Experience conducting requirements workshops and working with stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
• Knowledge of banking products, processes, systems, data, risk controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with process mapping, gap analysis, impact analysis, requirements traceability, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience supporting system implementations, integrations, enhancements, conversions, or digital-transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with retail, commercial, digital, or core banking; deposits; lending; payments; treasury management; customer onboarding; fraud; or regulatory compliance.
• Experience working in a scaled Agile environment, such as SAFe.
• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, Confluence, or similar tools.
• Experience with system integrations, APIs, data mapping, or data-conversion projects.
• Knowledge of banking regulations and standards, including BSA/AML, KYC, OFAC, GLBA, or PCI DSS.
• Business Analysis, Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, or SAFe certification.

• Core Competencies
• Banking Operations Requirements Elicitation Epics and Features User Stories Acceptance Criteria Backlog Refinement Agile Delivery Process Mapping Gap Analysis Stakeholder Facilitation Requirements Traceability User Acceptance Testing Risk and Regulatory Awareness Cross-Functional Collaboration