Functional Business Analyst

L'EVATE Inc.; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

L'EVATE Inc. in Cebu City, Philippines, seeks an experienced Functional Business Analyst to ensure technology solutions meet business requirements, address user needs, and solve operational problems.

You will work directly with clients, end users, product owners, developers, and QA teams to understand business processes, document requirements, and validate delivered solutions throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as a Functional Business Analyst or similar role.
• Proven ability to gather and document business and functional requirements.
• Experience creating BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow docs.
• Facilitates client meetings, interviews, and requirements workshops.
• Experience in UAT support and functional validation.
• Ability to translate business pain into practical functional requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• Lead stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and workshops.
• Document current-state and future-state business processes.
• Identify pain points, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Perform fit-gap analysis between requirements and system functionality.
• Prepare BRDs, process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate needs into actionable requirements for product and dev teams.
• Collaborate with clients, product owners, developers, and QA throughout the lifecycle.
• Perform functional testing and validate system functionality.
• Support User Acceptance Testing with test scenarios and issue coordination.

Skills

Functional Business Analyst

Requirements gathering

BRDs & user stories

UAT support

Stakeholder interviews

Requirements workshops

Fit-gap analysis

Process mapping

English communication

Analytical thinking

Tools

Process mapping tools

Requirements management tools

Agile tools (e.g., Jira)

Collaboration tools

Job description

About the Company

We are a Canadian business automation and software solutions company that helpsorganizations improve operations by aligning business processes with practical technologysolutions.

The company works with clients across the full solution lifecycle, including discovery,
requirements gathering, process analysis, solution design, development, testing,implementation, and ongoing support.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Functional Business Analyst to ensure that technologysolutions meet business requirements, address user needs, and solve the intendedoperational problems.

You will work directly with clients, end users, product owners, developers, and qualityassurance teams to understand business processes, identify pain points, documentrequirements, and validate delivered solutions.

This is a business-focused role. Coding and software development experience areconsidered assets but are not required.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• Lead stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, requirements workshops, and proof-of-concept discussions.
• Understand and document current-state and future-state business processes.
• Identify operational pain points, process gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Conduct fit-gap analysis between business requirements and proposed system functionality.
• Prepare Business Requirements Documents, process flows, user stories, andacceptance criteria.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for product and development teams.
• Collaborate with clients, product owners, developers, and QA teams throughout thesolution lifecycle.
• Perform functional testing and validate that system functionality meets businessrequirements.
• Support User Acceptance Testing, including test scenarios, issue documentation,feedback coordination, and resolution validation.
• Participate actively and contribute effectively during client meetings, demonstrations, and project discussions.
• Ensure the delivered solution addresses the original business problem and end-userneeds.
  

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as aFunctional Business Analyst
• Proven experience as a Functional Business Analyst, Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, or similar role.
• Strong understanding of business operations, workflows, requirements analysis,and process improvement.
• Demonstrated experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
• Experience creating BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and workflow documentation.
• Experience facilitating client meetings, stakeholder interviews, and requirements workshops.
• Experience conducting fit-gap analysis.
• Experience supporting UAT and performing functional system validation.
• Ability to identify business pain points and translate them into practical functional requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Confidence communicating directly with clients, end users, and technical teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and critical-thinking skills.
• Basic understanding of software systems and technology concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software implementation, business automation, custom
  application development, or digital transformation projects.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments.
• Familiarity with process-mapping, requirements-management, project-management, or collaboration tools.
• Experience working with product owners, software developers, and QA teams.
• Knowledge of databases, APIs, coding, or software development is an asset but not
  mandatory
  

Ideal Candidate

You are a business-focused analyst who can lead client discussions, ask thoughtful questions, understand complex workflows, and turn business needs into clear and testable requirements.

You are comfortable working between business and technical teams and can take ownership of requirements from initial discovery through functional validation and User Acceptance Testing.