Strategic Banking Business Analyst & Process Improvement

First Interstate Bank; Casper (WY); On-site; USD 62,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO and holidays

Student debt repayment

401(k) match

Community focus

Job summary

First Interstate Bank is seeking a Business Analyst to partner with leaders and technology teams to analyze needs, document requirements, and identify process improvements across multiple initiatives.

You will facilitate requirements, translate needs into functional specs, create BRDs, user stories, RTMs, and support testing and delivery. Strong facilitation, communication, and banking experience are valued; CCBA is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience independently eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to evaluate business processes, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements discussions.
• Ability to translate business needs into functional requirements, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting project artifacts.
• Experience maintaining requirements traceability and supporting validation activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ability to partner with Quality Assurance and business stakeholders to support testing alignment, requirements clarification, and defect analysis.
• Ability to document reporting, data, and measurement requirements that support business processes and decision‑making.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with business and technology teams.
• Ability to identify and communicate risks, assumptions, dependencies, and potential business impacts.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities while meeting established deadlines.
• Ability to provide guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing to Associate Business Analysts and other less experienced team members.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new business domains, systems, technologies, and analysis techniques.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders, BRMs, Enterprise Architecture, and technology teams to analyze needs and document requirements.
• Facilitate requirements gathering, evaluate options, and support project delivery across initiatives.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements and create BRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain the RTM throughout the project lifecycle and ensure traceability.
• Collaborate with QA and stakeholders to align testing with requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, assumptions, and potential impacts to projects.
• Lead stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements sessions.
• Provide guidance to Associate BAs and less experienced team members.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Requirements management

Facilitation

Functional requirements

RTM

QA collaboration

Data reporting

Stakeholder management

Risk communication

Multi-project management

Mentoring

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

First Interstate Bank is seeking a Business Analyst to partner with leaders and technology teams to analyze needs, document requirements, and identify process improvements across multiple initiatives.

You will facilitate requirements, translate needs into functional specs, create BRDs, user stories, RTMs, and support testing and delivery. Strong facilitation, communication, and banking experience are valued; CCBA is preferred.