
Salesforce Business Analyst
Ness Digital Engineering
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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About the role
- Lead requirements gathering sessions with investment teams, portfolio operations, finance, and cross-functional business stakeholders
- Translate business needs into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications using tools like JIRA
- Document As-Is and To-Be process flows, data models, and system touchpoints using Confluence or similar documentation platforms
- Maintain and groom the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business priorities and overall roadmap
- Conduct impact assessments and feasibility studies for new features and enhancements
- Recommend scalable Salesforce solutions leveraging Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Flows, Approval Processes, and platform automation features
- Work closely with technical teams through the development lifecycle, ensuring requirements are correctly implemented
- Develop UAT plans, create test scenarios, coordinate UAT cycles with business users, and track issues to closure
- Manage release readiness tasks, ensuring deployment documentation is complete and stakeholders are trained
- Define meaningful dashboards and reporting requirements for pipeline visibility, portfolio monitoring, and operational insights
- Act as the bridge between business users and the Salesforce technical team
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment, ensuring prioritization and dependencies are clearly understood
- Provide transparent communication on progress, risks, and changes
- Contribute to sprint ceremonies (refinement, planning, demo, retro) in agile delivery environments
Requirements
- 5–9 years of Business Analyst experience, with at least 3+ years on Salesforce projects
- Experience working with Private Equity, portfolio companies, asset management, or financial services environments
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Flows
- Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, backlog management, and roadmap planning
- Strong abilities in process documentation, data modeling, and writing user stories
- Understanding of Salesforce security model, permission sets, record access, and governance
- Experience managing UAT, defect triage, and user training
- Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills
- Familiarity with data migration tools (Data Loader) and integrations (API concepts)
Benefits
- access to trainings and certifications
- bonuses
- socializing activities
- attractive compensation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
SalesforceSales CloudService CloudFlowsApproval ProcessesUAT managementprocess documentationdata modelinguser storiesdefect triage
Soft skills
communicationanalytical skillsstakeholder managementcross-functional alignmentfacilitationrequirements gatheringimpact assessmentfeasibility studiestransparencyagile delivery