Advanced Business Analyst

Wintrust Financial Corporation is a $66 billion financial institution based in Rosemont, Illinois, providing community and commercial banking, specialty finance, and wealth management services. The Advanced Business Analyst role is responsible for leading business analysis activities and facilitating technology and business solutions across multiple initiatives, ensuring business needs are accurately understood and translated into effective solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, validate, document, and manage business, functional, technical, and non-functional requirements
• Translate complex business needs into actionable user stories, epics, features, process flows, business rules, use cases, and functional specifications
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements review meetings
• Develop Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), requirements traceability matrices, and supporting project artifacts
• Analyze and document current-state and future-state business processes and identify opportunities for improvements and facilitate discussions
• Distill complex enterprise challenges into clear, concise, and actionable solution requirements
• Develop wireframes, mockups, process maps, swim lane diagrams, context diagrams, and visual solution models where applicable
• Facilitate solution design workshops and collaborate with architects, developers, UX/UI teams, and business stakeholders to define optimal solutions
• Ensure proposed solutions support scalability, usability, operational efficiency, and long-term business objectives
• Facilitate and lead Agile ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Release Planning, and Retrospectives
• Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize, maintain, and optimize product backlogs
• Monitor sprint progress, identify and remove delivery impediments, and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and escalations
• Foster accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence across project teams
• Ensure development activities remain aligned with business priorities and strategic objectives
• Develop test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria to support solution validation
• Coordinate and support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and production validation activities
• Validate delivered functionality against documented requirements and business expectations
• Participate in defect management, issue resolution, and quality assurance efforts throughout the project lifecycle
• Build trusted partnerships with business leaders, executives, technology teams, vendors, and project stakeholders
• Serve as a trusted advisor by providing business insights, solution recommendations, and delivery guidance
• Facilitate effective communication across all organizational levels
• Influence decision-making through data-driven analysis, strong facilitation skills, and collaborative leadership
• Promote transparency, accountability, and stakeholder confidence throughout project execution
• Apply best practices across Agile, Scrum, Hybrid, and Waterfall methodologies
• Ensure adherence to organizational SDLC standards, governance processes, documentation requirements, and quality controls
• Support project planning, estimation, capacity planning, dependency management, risk identification, and change management activities
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of business analysis practices, templates, standards, and delivery methodologies

Requirements:

• Minimum 3–5 years of Business Analysis in a financial services environment with special emphasis on coordinating business, functional and technical requirements and/or project management across large cross functional teams, programs or projects
• Minimum 2 years of experience working within Agile Scrum delivery environments
• Proven experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies and supporting Agile delivery teams
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and Hybrid approaches
• Experience eliciting, documenting, and managing business, functional, technical, and non-functional requirements
• Demonstrated ability to create user stories, epics, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, process models, and testing artifacts
• Experience supporting end-to-end testing activities including SIT, UAT, regression testing, and defect management
• Experience working on enterprise-level initiatives involving multiple business units, stakeholders, vendors, and technology teams
• Ability to facilitate workshops, requirements sessions, solution design discussions, and stakeholder meetings
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, organizational, and time-management skills
• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline preferred
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously while managing competing priorities and deadlines
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project
• Experience using Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, or similar Agile delivery platforms
• Experience using Visio, LucidChart, or similar diagramming and wireframing tools
• Working knowledge of business process modeling, workflow analysis, and requirements traceability
• Basic understanding of data management, analytics, reporting concepts, and technology solution architecture
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills with the ability to influence without direct authority
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and relationship-building capabilities
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to think strategically while maintaining attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex business problems to facilitate developing practical, value-driven solutions
• Strong customer-focused mindset and commitment to continuous improvement
• Positive attitude, adaptability, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to team success
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or equivalent business analysis certification
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe, or related Agile certification
• Experience leading enterprise-scale business projects and programs
• Experience working directly with executive leadership and enterprise governance organizations