Lead CRE Lending Business Analyst — Automation & Solutions

Horizontal Talent; Brooklyn (OH); Hybrid; USD 51,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join a collaborative technology team supporting commercial real estate lending initiatives through thoughtful analysis, process improvement, and solution delivery. This hybrid role partners with business and technology stakeholders to shape capabilities across the loan lifecycle and drive operational impact.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of BA experience, strong requirements gathering and Agile SDLC knowledge, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of business analysis experience supporting enterprise technology solutions.
• Proven ability to manage requirements across complex systems with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong experience eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements.
• Experience working in Agile environments and with SDLC practices.
• Ability to create process models, workflows, use cases, and business requirement documentation.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build alignment across teams.
• Confidence influencing decisions and driving consensus in a collaborative setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions and requirements workshops with business and technology partners.
• Gather, analyze, document, and manage functional and non-functional requirements for complex initiatives.
• Translate business needs into user stories, process flows, business rules, and technical requirements.
• Assess how changes affect related applications, integrations, and downstream users.
• Document current and future business processes and identify opportunities for efficiency and automation.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, product owners, and subject matter experts to support solution design.
• Support enhancements and modernization efforts for commercial real estate lending platforms and related applications.
• Analyze deal intake, underwriting, approval workflows, covenant management, document handling, and portfolio oversight processes.
• Develop data mapping and source-to-target requirements for system integrations.
• Help define testing strategies, coordinate user acceptance testing, and support release readiness activities.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

SDLC

Requirements gathering

Process modeling

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Horizontal Talent is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join a collaborative technology team supporting commercial real estate lending initiatives through thoughtful analysis, process improvement, and solution delivery. This hybrid role partners with business and technology stakeholders to shape capabilities across the loan lifecycle and drive operational impact.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of BA experience, strong requirements gathering and Agile SDLC knowledge, and the ability to