Fintech Business Analyst

Methodic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Methodic is seeking a Fintech Business Analyst in San Francisco, CA to ensure the platform meets real-world financial requirements and regulatory demands. You will collaborate with clients and internal teams to gather detailed requirements and translate them into product specs.

You will map financial workflows, review compliance rules across jurisdictions, and assist QA and UAT to validate features before rollout. Strong analytical, communication, and Agile skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a business analyst in financial services or fintech.
• Strong understanding of financial products and services and typical business processes.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory frameworks (AML/KYC, reporting standards, data protection).
• Excellent analytical and attention-to-detail skills; able to convert complex processes into actionable requirements.
• Effective communication for meetings, workshops, and thorough documentation for developers/testers.
• Experience in an Agile development environment is a plus (writing user stories, Jira).
• Proactive mindset to flag gaps and regulatory changes early for product teams.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to gather insights for launching financial products on Methodic.
• Document workflows and exception handling for regulatory and business processes.
• Analyze regulatory requirements across jurisdictions and translate into system requirements.
• Collaborate with product manager to prioritize requirements and clarify details for engineering.
• Assist QA in creating test scenarios reflecting real-world compliance usage.
• Participate in UAT with clients to validate features before rollout.
• Continuously research fintech best practices to propose improvements and new workflows.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Agile experience

Requirements gathering

Tools

Jira

Job description

Fintech Business Analyst

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

As a Fintech Business Analyst, you will help ensure that Methodic’s platform aligns with real-world financial business requirements and regulatory demands. You’ll work with clients and internal teams to gather detailed requirements, map out financial workflows, and translate them into specifications for our product. By analyzing both the business processes and the rules that govern them, you will play a key role in shaping features that make our platform comprehensive and compliant for a variety of financial products and services.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients and prospects to gather deep insights into their operational needs and requirements when launching a financial product using Methodic. For instance, understand how a client expects the onboarding process to work, what their reporting needs are, or what specific compliance rules they must follow.
• Document current and proposed workflows in detail (using flowcharts, use cases, etc.), covering everything from how money moves through our system (e.g., funding accounts, trading transactions, fee calculations) to how exceptions are handled (fraud alerts, support escalations).
• Analyze regulatory requirements in different jurisdictions (Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Hong Kong, US, etc.) that affect our platform's functionality. Translate these laws and guidelines into clear business rules or system requirements (e.g., “system must generate X report for regulatory body Y” or “users from region Z must go through additional KYC checks”).
• Work with the product manager to prioritize these requirements and clarify details during the design phase of new features or modules. Ensure that the intended business logic is accurately understood by the engineering team.
• Assist QA in creating test scenarios that reflect real-world usage and compliance scenarios, ensuring that developed features truly meet the business needs (e.g., does the tax reporting module produce correct output for various scenarios?).
• Participate in user acceptance testing, sometimes alongside clients, to validate that new features or configurations meet their business requirements before full rollout.
• Continuously research industry best practices and emerging fintech trends, using that knowledge to suggest improvements or new workflows that Methodic should support.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a business analyst or similar role in the financial services or fintech domain.
• Strong understanding of financial products and services (banking operations, trading systems, payments, etc.) and the typical business processes behind them.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., AML/KYC processes, financial reporting standards, consumer data protection laws) and ability to interpret how they apply to software requirements.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail – you can take a complex process and break it down into clear, actionable requirements.
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to run meetings or workshops to elicit information, and to write thorough documentation (requirements docs, user stories, process diagrams) that developers and testers can readily follow.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment is a plus (writing user stories, working with Jira or similar tools).
• A proactive mindset – you anticipate potential gaps or issues and address them before they become problems (for example, spotting a regulation change on the horizon and flagging it early for the product team).