Sr Business Analyst

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, and they are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support the BPG Finance organization. This role involves leading change execution across data ingestion, transformation, and curation, while ensuring Finance-driven initiatives are clearly defined and delivered with strong quality and business alignment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead BPG Finance Change Delivery
• Serve as the senior IT BA for Finance-driven initiatives impacting the SPoT Finance Data Platform
• Translate Finance reporting, analytics, and regulatory requirements into structured epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Perform comprehensive impact assessments across source systems, pipelines, curated datasets, models, dashboards, and downstream consumers
• Coordinate change activities including cutovers, migrations, backfills, and post-deployment stabilization
• Ensure full traceability from requirements through testing, deployment, and production support
• Bridge Finance and IT
• Act as the primary liaison between BPG Finance and IT Data Engineering teams
• Facilitate solution design workshops covering source onboarding, schema evolution, transformation logic, dimensional modelling, partitioning, aggregation strategies, and consumption patterns
• Define and enforce data contracts, KPI definitions, modelling standards, and data quality controls
• Partner with Product Owner and Scrum Master to maintain a prioritized backlog aligned to Finance priorities and platform commitments
• Proactively identify and resolve risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers
• Governance, Quality & Operational Control
• Define non-functional requirements including data quality thresholds, security and access controls, performance SLAs, reliability, and auditability
• Lead testing readiness across unit, integration, reconciliation, data quality validation, performance testing, and UAT of curated datasets and consumption assets
• Establish monitoring for data quality, freshness, reconciliation accuracy, and usage trends
• Lead root-cause analysis of data issues and implement preventative controls and operational runbooks
• Maintain comprehensive documentation including BRDs/FRDs, technical specifications, data dictionaries, KPI definitions, process maps, runbooks, and change logs

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in computing science, information systems or a similar discipline and 7+ years relevant job experience is essential
• Significant experience supporting Finance-led change initiatives within enterprise data platform
• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into structured, actionable delivery artifacts
• Strong SQL skills and solid understanding of dimensional modelling, schema evolution, metadata/lineage, and data quality frameworks
• Experience defining and monitoring data quality rules, reconciliation controls, and governance-aligned data assets
• Experience leading UAT and managing cross-functional delivery
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with structured prioritization and attention to detail
• Advanced knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices
• Experience working with cross-functional, global teams
• Ability to influence and build consensus across organizational levels
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Up to 25% travel may be required