Business Analyst (Private Equity)

Overview  

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to act as the key interface between business stakeholders and technology teams within enterprise business application environments. This role is responsible for understanding business needs, gathering and documenting requirements, and translating them into functional and technical solutions aligned with organizational objectives.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience within private equity and wealth management environments, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to lead business analysis activities across cross-functional projects and enterprise platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Engage with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business and system requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear functional and non-functional specifications.
• Ensure requirements are complete, traceable, and aligned with business objectives and technical delivery.
• Drive discussions between business and technology teams to ensure alignment on scope, priorities, and expected outcomes.
• Support solution planning, process improvements, and automation initiatives across enterprise platforms.
• Participate in system enhancement, transformation, and application delivery initiatives.

Documentation & Solution Support

• Prepare detailed business requirement documents (BRD), functional specifications, user stories, workflows, and process diagrams.
• Ensure seamless handover of requirements to engineering and development teams.
• Support testing, UAT activities, defect clarification, and solution validation.
• Maintain documentation standards and requirements traceability throughout the SDLC.

Stakeholder & Team Collaboration

• Work closely with business users, developers, engineers, and project stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Support prioritization and scoping discussions for business requests and enhancement initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings, and requirement review sessions.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders while effectively managing expectations and communication.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead and guide junior business analysts during project execution.
• Support knowledge sharing, peer reviews, onboarding, and mentoring activities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of business analysis standards, processes, and best practices.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, business application trends, and enterprise solution practices.

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure compliance with organizational standards, security policies, and operational processes.
• Support governance activities, documentation reviews, and audit requirements where applicable.

Job Qualifications and Requirements

• Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Around 7–9 years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar role within enterprise environments.
• Strong experience within: Private Equity, Wealth Management & Financial Services / BFSI environments
• Proven experience working with cross-functional business and technology teams.
• Strong understanding of business processes, enterprise applications, and systems implementation projects.
• Good understanding of SDLC, requirements management, and business process analysis.

SQL Knowledge Requirements

Candidates should have working knowledge of SQL, including:

• Data retrieval, filtering, sorting, and grouping using: SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY
• Aggregate functions such as: COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN / MAX
• JOIN operations: INNER JOIN, LEFT / RIGHT JOIN, FULL JOIN
• Subqueries, aliases, and conditional filtering.
• Basic data manipulation: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
• Understanding of basic database concepts, data types, constraints, and NULL handling.

Additional Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing abilities.
• Ability to lead discussions between technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience leading small cross-functional teams or mentoring junior analysts.
• Strong English communication skills (written and verbal).

Preferred / Advantage

• Experience supporting enterprise or business application development initiatives.
• Exposure to automation, digital transformation, or workflow optimization projects.
• Understanding of design thinking and systems thinking methodologies.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and enterprise platforms.
• Exposure to financial data platforms, investment systems, or wealth management applications.