Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brandt Information Services builds technology that powers critical government and public-facing services. They are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to drive clarity and execution across complex financial and transactional systems, ensuring accurate processing, accounting, and reporting of financial transactions.
Responsibilities
- Drive discovery for initiatives across payments, transaction lifecycles, ledger entries, and financial reporting
- Translate business needs into clear, testable requirements, user stories, and process/data flows
- Ensure requirements are complete and aligned before development begins—minimizing rework
- Document workflows and data mappings across transaction and financial systems
- Own requirements quality and completeness from discovery through delivery
- Partner with Product Owner, Engineering Tech Lead, Finance, and Operations to align on scope, priorities, and outcomes
- Drive backlog refinement and prioritization using business value, financial impact, and risk
- Identify dependencies and risks early, especially those affecting reconciliation, reporting, or ledger accuracy
- Actively participate in testing and validation to ensure implementation meet business requirements and financial expectations
- Analyze and resolve issues in payment processing, transaction flows, and reporting pipelines through root cause analysis
- Partner with Finance and Stakeholders to validate ledger behavior, reconciliation processes, and reporting outputs
- Identify and drive improvements in accuracy, traceability, and efficiency across financial workflows
- Triage issues impacting transactions, payments, or reporting accuracy
- Identify recurring defects and systemic gaps
- Escalate high-impact issues affecting customers or financial data
Skills
- 4–8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in a technology-driven environment
- Hands-on experience with transactional systems (e.g., authorization, settlement, reconciliation, gateways, or ledger platforms)
- Strong understanding of transaction lifecycles, including authorization, settlement, reconciliation, and ledger posting
- Experience working with financial reporting, auditability, and data integrity requirements
- Proven ability to lead discovery and drive alignment across cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical skills, including root cause analysis and production issue investigation
- Experience translating complex workflows into clear requirements and data/process models
- Experience working in agile environments and with agile tooling (Scrum, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Confluence, process modeling tools)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence in a remote, distributed team
- Ability to operate independently, prioritize effectively, and own outcomes end-to-end
- Experience with government systems, regulated environments, or high-audit financial systems is a plus
Benefits
- Health insurance options, including plans fully covered for employees
- Vision and dental coverage options
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Paid holidays
- 401(k) with company match
- Parental leave benefits
- Life and disability insurance
- Professional development support
- Fully remote work environment with flexibility and autonomy
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