Senior Security Business Analyst

Ernst & Young LLP ( EY India ); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ernst & Young LLP ( EY India ) in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Security Business Analyst to bridge business and security needs within the Enterprise Security Program. You will capture, document and manage requirements, and collaborate with stakeholders to align solutions with objectives.

As a subject matter expert, you will provide insights that enable risk-informed decisions, support testing with Security QA, and drive continual process improvements across security domains and project teams.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to communicate fluently in English, with clear written and verbal skills.
• Experience in writing and reviewing business, user, and non-functional requirements.
• Expertise in selecting and executing elicitation techniques (interviews, workshops, surveys).
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Solid understanding of security domain and IAM concepts.
• Experience using IT methodologies and standards for business analysis.
• Ability to obtain alignment of requirements from user communities.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, document, and manage business and security requirements for complex projects.
• Collaborate with business, security, technical, and project management stakeholders to align with objectives.
• Partner with Security QA to validate solutions against requirements.
• Trace requirements to code, policy, or test cases and ensure traceability.
• Drive continuous improvement of BA processes and tools in the security domain.
• Share knowledge and best practices to support team effectiveness.

Skills

English fluency

Requirements writing

Elicitation techniques

Stakeholder engagement

Security domain

IT methodologies

Collaborating across teams

Job description

Business Management Analyst At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you.

And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too.

Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Information Senior Security Business Analyst InfoSec provides reliable, secure, and resilient technology services and solutions to support over 300,000 EY people.

Information Security takes a proactive approach to protecting EY’s brand through robust technical security controls, a clearly defined security strategy and ongoing compliance and incident management programs designed to detect and protect against increasingly sophisticated threats against the organization.

You will work with technologists and business specialists to meet the increasing pace of our business.

That means more growth for you, exciting learning opportunities, career choices, and the chance to make a real impact.

The opportunity

The Senior Security Business Analyst role within the Enterprise Security Program is essential for supporting security initiatives by ensuring that business and security requirements are accurately captured, documented, communicated, and managed.

The role partners with project stakeholders and Information Security Services to evaluate needs, propose solutions, and facilitate agreement on implementation.

As a subject matter expert, the Senior Security Business Analyst provides actionable insights that enable effective decision‑making and risk mitigation.

As a member of the Information Security Service Delivery team, the Senior Security Business Analyst role successfully and efficiently drives business process improvement via the methodical investigation, analysis, review and documentation of all or part of a business in terms of business functions and processes.

Your key responsibilities

• Elicitation, analyzing, documenting, and managing business and security requirements for complex projects within the Enterprise Security Program.
• Collaboration with business, security, technical, and project management stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, feasible, and aligned with organizational objectives.
• Partnering with Security Quality Assurance staff to validate and test security solutions to confirm they meet documented requirements.
• Tracing requirements to the corresponding code, policy, confirmation, or other implementation artifacts, as well as to the test cases that validate them.
• Contributing to continuous improvement of security business analysis processes and tools as a subject matter expert both in terms of business analysis and the security domain.
• Sharing of knowledge and best practices with peers to support team effectiveness.

Skills and attributes for success

To be successful in this role, candidates should possess the following core skills:

• Strong ability to communicate fluently in English and adapt communications to various audiences, including Executives, Sponsors, Management, overall organization and project teams – includes verbal, written and presentation skills
• Breakdown barriers of delivery with well thought out challenges and escalations, if necessary
• Personal accountability to adhere and comply of all required business analyst deliverables and requirements
• Ability to collaborate across functional teams, cultures and geographies and to build trust virtually
• Strong working knowledge or experience with Identity and Access Management
• Track record of customer focus that is based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises
• Extensive experience writing and reviewing business, user, and non-functional/system level requirements
• Highly adept at obtaining alignment and approval of business requirements (functional and supplemental) from user community
• Extensive experience in selecting and executing elicitation techniques such as Interviews, Exploratory Prototypes, Facilitated Workshops, Focus Groups, Observation, User Task Analysis, Documentation Study and Surveys and overall Process Re-engineering Development and deployment of formal business analysis methods and tools to govern and control programs
• Solid understanding of the following requirements models: Stakeholder Categories, Actor Tables, Glossary, Context Diagram, Data Model, Class Model, Data Dictionary, Event Response Tables, State Diagrams, Business Rules, Decision Tables, Process Maps, Use Cases, and Activity Diagrams
• Leader in the use of IT methodologies, processes and standards for business analysis

Desired qualifications

• Preferably 8–10 years’ experience in business analysis within the information security domain for large, geographically diverse programs.
• Strong expertise in security technologies (cloud, network, perimeter, messaging, endpoint, and data security).
• Proficiency in requirements management methodologies and tools.
• Advanced communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CBAP) are highly desirable.

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Experience Level Mid Level