Lead Business Analyst (Data & Reporting)

Papigen; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Papigen is seeking a Lead Business Data & Reporting Analyst to bridge business needs with delivery teams across data platforms, reporting, and BI initiatives. You will drive governance, KPI definitions, and requirements management to ensure timely, accurate, and actionable insights for executive and operational needs.

The role requires extensive collaboration with business leaders, data owners, architects, developers, QA, and product teams to support reporting modernization and strategic

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Analytics, Finance or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, data analytics, reporting, BI or analytics environments.
• Experience gathering and managing business, reporting, analytics, dashboard, and data requirements.
• Proven experience with enterprise reporting, KPI frameworks, and BI solutions.
• Strong dashboard design understanding, metrics, and performance measurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder interviews and discovery sessions to define requirements and KPIs.
• Define, document, validate, and manage business, functional, and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate between business stakeholders, product owners, data owners, architects, and delivery teams.
• Translate requirements into functional specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Define reporting logic, data mappings, and governance to support dashboards and analytics.
• Validate outputs and ensure alignment with governance standards and business priorities.
• Support backlog grooming, sprint planning, and testing activities.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from requirements to delivery.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Microsoft Fabric

SQL

Job description

Role Summary:

The Lead Business Data & Reporting Analyst serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams supporting enterprise data platforms, reporting, analytics, business intelligence, and dashboard initiatives. This role is responsible for driving business engagement, requirements management, KPI definition, reporting governance, and stakeholder alignment to ensure delivery of accurate, timely, reliable, and actionable information across operational, financial, portfolio, risk, and executive functions.

The ideal candidate will combine strong business analysis expertise with deep knowledge of reporting, analytics, dashboards, KPI frameworks, and data-driven decision-making. The role requires extensive collaboration with business leaders, product owners, data owners, architects, developers, QA teams, and executive stakeholders to support strategic reporting and transformation initiatives.

Scope of Work & Key Responsibilities:

Business Engagement & Requirements Leadership

• Lead stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, workshops, requirements reviews, and business working sessions.
• Gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business, functional, non-functional, reporting, analytics, dashboard, and data requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination between business stakeholders, product owners, data owners, architects, developers, QA teams, and delivery partners.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, KPI definitions, and prioritized backlog items.
• Facilitate business alignment on priorities, scope, business objectives, and reporting requirements.
• Support roadmap planning, modernization initiatives, enhancement requests, and strategic transformation programs.
• Ensure stakeholder expectations are managed effectively throughout the project lifecycle.

Reporting, KPI & Analytics Management

• Lead the definition, documentation, and validation of KPIs, business metrics, scorecards, reports, dashboards, and analytical use cases.
• Establish and maintain consistent business definitions across operational, financial, portfolio, risk, management, executive, reinsurance, and regulatory reporting.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Reporting, and Business Intelligence teams to define reporting logic, calculation methodologies, business rules, and data mappings.
• Support the development and maintenance of KPI catalogs, business glossaries, report inventories, and dashboard specifications.
• Validate reporting requirements and analytical outputs to ensure alignment with business objectives and governance standards.
• Facilitate stakeholder review and business acceptance of reports, dashboards, semantic models, and analytical solutions.

Requirements Governance & Traceability

• Maintain end-to-end traceability from business requirements through design, development, testing, deployment, and business acceptance.
• Ensure requirements are complete, accurate, unambiguous, testable, and aligned with approved business priorities.
• Manage change requests, requirement updates, scope modifications, and impact assessments.
• Document business decisions, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and risks.
• Support backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, release planning, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Ensure requirements governance standards and documentation practices are consistently followed.

Data Quality, Validation & Operational Support

• Support business validation of data, reports, dashboards, reconciliations, exceptions, and analytical outputs.
• Collaborate with technical teams to investigate production issues, incident tickets, data discrepancies, and reporting defects.
• Participate in root-cause analysis and corrective action initiatives.
• Define business validation criteria, reconciliation requirements, and data quality expectations.
• Support operational reporting, management reporting, executive reporting, and strategic decision-support activities.
• Contribute to knowledge management, documentation maintenance, and knowledge transfer activities.

Stakeholder Management & Business Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with operational, finance, accounting, portfolio management, risk management, reinsurance, audit, and executive stakeholders.
• Communicate business priorities, requirements, dependencies, risks, and project status updates.
• Facilitate stakeholder decision-making through clear analysis, reporting, and presentation of findings.
• Bridge the gap between business and technical teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Support governance forums, steering committee reviews, and executive discussions as required.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8 years of experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Reporting, Business Intelligence, or Analytics environments.
• Strong experience gathering and managing business, reporting, analytics, dashboard, and data requirements.
• Proven experience working with enterprise reporting, KPI frameworks, and business intelligence solutions.
• Strong understanding of dashboard design, reporting methodologies, business metrics, and performance measurement frameworks.
• Experience writing business requirements documents, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience supporting Agile delivery teams, backlog management, sprint ceremonies, testing, and release activities.
• Strong understanding of data validation, reconciliation processes, and business acceptance testing.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional business and technology teams.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, stakeholder management, documentation, and communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in complex and fast-paced environments.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Tableau, or similar BI and Analytics platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and enterprise data management concepts.
• Experience supporting financial, risk, portfolio management, operational, or regulatory reporting environments.
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, or SAFe delivery frameworks.
• Exposure to enterprise data governance, metadata management, and data quality initiatives.
• Familiarity with cloud-based analytics and reporting platforms.
• Experience supporting digital transformation and business modernization programs.