Senior Business Analyst: Strategy & Solutions Leader

Gallagher; Rolling Meadows (IL); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Gallagher is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to partner with technical and functional teams to define requirements for application development, document deliverables, and communicate status. The role emphasizes detailed requirements, feasibility analysis, and leadership of analysts to ensure project success.

Required: university degree and 5+ years of experience, budgeting knowledge, and strong communication. Preferred: SQL data modeling, Azure DevOps, Visio/Project proficiency.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering or related field
• 5 years related experience required including project support
• Understanding of budgeting and financial management processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

• Defines detailed requirements, analyzes business needs, and validates solutions with the client.
• Performs feasibility analysis, scopes project, and recommends alternative solutions, project strategy and deliverable prioritization.
• Serves as senior subject matter expert associated with content, processes, and procedures. Develops high level implementation plans.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
• Serves as a liaison between technical and functional stakeholders, and project management teams, to help keep initiatives moving forward smoothly and in accordance with project plans.
• Participates in multiple key initiatives simultaneously.
• Guides and advises less-experienced Business Analysts.
• Monitors other Business Analysts in software development methods and processes, and recommends implementation of those methods.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Engineering or related field

Tools

MS SQL Server – Data Relationships, Data Modeling

Azure DevOps

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Project

Job description

Gallagher is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to partner with technical and functional teams to define requirements for application development, document deliverables, and communicate status. The role emphasizes detailed requirements, feasibility analysis, and leadership of analysts to ensure project success.

Required: university degree and 5+ years of experience, budgeting knowledge, and strong communication. Preferred: SQL data modeling, Azure DevOps, Visio/Project proficiency.