Lead Business Analyst

Thomson Reuters

Lead Business Analyst involved in modernizing technology stack focused on Finance and Reporting. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate business requirements and ensure execution readiness.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeEagan • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,000 - $204,200 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Play a critical role in a large, strategic program focused on further modernizing and aligning our technology stack.
Focus on understanding, validating, and driving alignment and standardisation across Finance and Reporting-related business requirements, ensuring consistency, traceability, and readiness for downstream delivery.
Partner closely with Finance, Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Program teams to clarify complex requirements, resolve cross-system dependencies, and drive shared understanding across stakeholders.
Act as a trusted thought partner, helping shape scalable, standardised approaches to business requirements, reporting definitions, and design decisions that can be reused across initiatives and portfolios.
Lead the analysis, validation, and standardisation of complex business requirements, with a strong focus on Finance, Reporting, and cross-system data dependencies.
Translate high-level business scenarios and policies into clear, structured, and traceable functional and technical requirements that are ready for execution.
Drive alignment across Finance, Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Delivery teams by facilitating working sessions, decision forums, and design reviews.
Own and maintain key design and requirements artefacts, including business scenarios, service blueprints, traceability matrices, and feature-product mapping.
Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and variances across requirements, systems, and reporting models, and proactively drive resolution and standardisation.
Support adoption of standard frameworks, taxonomies, and tooling (e.g., ADO structures, traceability models) to improve delivery consistency and reporting transparency.
Provide thought leadership on business analysis and business architecture concepts, ensuring designs align to enterprise principles while remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused.
Partner closely with Delivery and Program leads to ensure requirements and decisions support stage-gate readiness, sequencing, and risk mitigation.
Communicate complex concepts clearly through executive-ready materials, summaries, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline; an advanced degree is considered an asset.
8+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, technical/functional analysis, or related roles within complex, technology-enabled environments.
Proven ability to lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives involving Finance, Technology, and Data domains.
Strong understanding of business architecture and business analysis concepts, including process modelling, requirements decomposition, decision traceability, and operating model considerations.
Demonstrated experience working across multiple systems and platforms, with the ability to reason about end-to-end impacts and dependencies.
Excellent facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with confidence influencing senior leaders and navigating ambiguity.
Highly structured and analytical, with the ability to synthesise complex information into clear insights and actionable outcomes.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise, executive-level documentation and presentations.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment while driving standards, consistency, and quality.
Confident in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders.
Collaborative and team-focused, with a willingness to take initiative.
Energetic, with drive, enthusiasm, and natural skills in relationship development.
Experience working in a large software or business information company is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to Headspace app
Retirement savings with company match
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Flexible work arrangements (work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year)
Paid leave for family care, community service, and relaxation
Social Impact initiatives with paid volunteer days off

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Hard Skills & Tools

business analysistechnical analysisfunctional analysisprocess modellingrequirements decompositiondecision traceabilityoperating model considerationsdata dependenciesstandard frameworkstraceability models

Soft Skills

facilitationstakeholder managementinfluencinganalytical thinkingcommunicationcollaborationinitiativerelationship developmentproblem-solvingadaptability