Senior Functional Analyst

**JOB posting** **** **JOB** **TITLE:** **** Senior Functional Analyst **DEPARTMENT:** **** Information Technology **REPORTS TO:** **** Vice President, IT, Data, and Financial Services **POSITION PURPOSE** **:** The Senior Functional Analysts is responsible for helping drive the growth, adoption, and business impact of the Company’s enterprise data and analytics platform. This role is the bridge between stakeholders and the Data and Analytics team for active project delivery. The Senior Functional Analyst owns upstream project work and leads intake and discovery, translating business needs into clear and actionable requirements, producing wireframes and user experience direction, product testing, and end user acceptance testing to ensure what gets delivered matches what was needed. The Senior Functional Analyst closely partners with the Vice President of IT, Data, and Financial Services, Project Manager, engineering team, and business stakeholders to drive iterative, agile delivery of Foundry-based solutions that enable data-informed decision making across the organization. This individual is accountable for translating business problems, operational workflows, and decision-making needs into clear requirements that can be evaluated, prioritized, tested, and adopted. The Senior Functional Analyst ensures the team is solving the right problem before engineering begins and that delivered solutions align to business process, data logic, user experience, and measurable business outcomes. Success in this role can be defined as an individual who is a strong facilitator, who asks insightful questions, isn’t afraid to push back on ambiguity, and can translate between business language and technical execution. The Senior Functional Analyst is comfortable learning new platforms, thrives in environments that require independent ownership, and bring structure to unstructured problems. **** **DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** **:** 1. Intake, Discovery, and Requirements o Lead initial intake conversations with business stakeholders to understand the problem, current state, pain points, and desired outcomes o Ask clarifying questions that challenge vague requests, dig into edge cases, and uncover the underlying business need - identify dependencies, data gaps, and risks early in the requirements process o Own the translation of business needs into structured, actionable requirements documents appropriate to project size (e.g., lightweight for small efforts, more detailed for complex initiatives) 2. User Stories, Scoping, and Sprint Support o Write user stories with clear acceptance criteria that the engineering team can build against o Translate requirements into testable acceptance criteria, including business rules, data validation expectations, edge cases, and exception handling 3. Stakeholder Management, Demos, and Communication o Lead demo sessions with business users to gather feedback and drive iterative improvement o Build and maintain relationships with business group leaders so they have a trusted point of contact on the data team o Own and manage Product Testing and End User Acceptance Testing 4. UI/UX Direction and Wireframing o Produce lightweight wireframes or mockups to align with stakeholders before engineering begins UI work o Define user flows and screen-level requirements for application interfaces o Review UI builds against requirements and provide feedback to engineering 5. Proactive Backlog Intake and Roadmap Support o Support the manager in roadmap planning by providing business context, stakeholder priorities, and scoping estimates 6. Documentation and Continuous Improvement o Maintain clear and current requirements documentation for all active projects 7. All other duties as assigned **EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE** **:** 1. Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, analytics, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience) is required 2. Four to seven (4-7) years of experience in a Business Analyst, Bu…