Business Analyst

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. (LRS); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Business Analyst in Dallas, TX to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions and to build and maintain reporting dashboards. The role also focuses on automating manual processes to improve accuracy and efficiency, acting as a liaison between business leadership and technical teams.

The ideal candidate has 2-5 years of business analysis experience, strong communication skills, and hands-on Agile experience for ceremonies such as stand-ups and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent.
• 2-5 years’ experience as a business analyst.
• Experience gathering requirements via workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and leading ceremonies.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Build and maintain reporting dashboards.
• Automate manual processes to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Serve as liaison between business leadership and technical teams.
• Define data definitions, KPIs, and analytics to answer business questions.
• Facilitate effective communications to set and manage expectations.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder communication

Data analytics

Agile methodologies

Reporting dashboards

ETL processes

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Power BI

Cognos

Python scripting

Job description

LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Business Analyst for a contract-to-hire opportunity in Dallas, TX. This role translates business requirements into scalable data solutions, builds and maintains reporting dashboards, and automates manual processes to improve accuracy and efficiency. The analyst will serve as a liaison between business leadership and technical teams, turning operational needs into actionable data models, ETL logic, and reporting outputs.

Education, Skills & Experience:

• Act as a liaison between technical teams and the business users, including managing communications between business stakeholders and technical teams to enhance understanding of desired scope, requirements and assist project delivery teams in implementing accurate solutions.
• Partner with business users to establish data definitions, reporting definitions, KPI, and analytics that answer a business question.
• Gather business requirements for the project.
• Drive proactive & transparent communications with key stakeholders related to project scope and related assumptions to properly set and manage expectations.
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to create clear requirements, specifications, and documentation.
• Ability to do data research to identify the data quality issues.
• Strong time management & prioritization skills.
• Able to meet deliverables with high level of accuracy.
• Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent from four-year college or university.
• 2-5 years’ experience as a business analyst.
• Hands-on experience with requirements gathering workshop facilitation and interviewing stakeholders to gather project requirements.
• Proven experience establishing relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• Extensive experience with Agile methodologies. Lead and facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Experience in collaboration tools, project management tools and workflow tools.
• Ability to work with local and remote teams.
• Familiarity with financial services or capital markets industry preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

Python scripting experience for data automation and ETL (Pandas, SQLAlchemy, openpyxl)

Experience with Power Automate for scheduling and workflow automation

Familiarity with Cognos or other enterprise reporting tools

• Experience with DAX expressions and Power BI data modeling