Top Business Analyst Jobs in Chicago, IL

Partner with a Sr. Product Manager to translate requirements into user stories and technical specs, run agile ceremonies, coordinate cross-functional delivery, handle support and incidents, and maintain product documentation to improve user experience.

Analyze business operations and large datasets to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges. Apply statistical and experimental methods, build SQL-driven analyses, create Power BI dashboards, and deliver executive-level insights and recommendations. Translate business requirements into analytical frameworks, promote meaningful testing and data collection, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and lead projects from initiation through completion.

Early-career Business Analyst in Apex’s SHARK program, starting July 2027. The role uses AI, automation, business intelligence, and data analysis to improve operational efficiency and support strategic decisions. Responsibilities include process optimization, financial modeling, client data analysis, competitive analysis, and cross-functional strategic initiatives. The position includes intensive onboarding, mentorship, executive exposure, and high-visibility projects in fintech.

Analyze business operations and complex datasets to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges. Use SQL, statistical methods, hypothesis testing, and Power BI to develop dashboards, executive reports, and actionable recommendations. Translate business requirements into analytical frameworks, design tests measuring incremental growth, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and lead projects from initiation through completion.

Lead product and marketing analytics for Morningstar's Individual Investor products by building KPI dashboards, automating reporting, consolidating data sources, and conducting cohort, LTV, and retention analyses. Develop financial forecasting models, evaluate pricing and acquisition impacts, implement tracking with GTM and SQL pipelines, and partner with engineering to maintain centralized data infrastructure and ensure data accuracy to inform growth and product decisions.

Support product managers by developing battery and energy storage market insights, regionalized market analyses, competitive intelligence, and business cases to guide product and go-to-market strategy. Maintain roadmaps across segments and communicate findings to leadership while managing multiple projects and cross-functional collaboration.

Ten-week, full-time summer internship applying analytical and strategic skills to business problems. Interns use data, modeling, and technology (e.g., SQL, Python) to drive recommendations, collaborate cross-functionally, and develop business acumen while being mentored and evaluated for full-time rotational program opportunities.

Support delivery of securities-based lending system development by negotiating client requirements, working with product development, designing prototypes, documenting business/technical requirements, configuring platforms, producing supporting documents, and providing QA and troubleshooting.

Lead design and delivery of Portfolio Construction features, author clear functional/technical specs, partner with engineering and QA, test and resolve complex support issues, act as portfolio construction SME, and incorporate client feedback into the product roadmap.

The SI Business Analyst will drive integration between business needs and technical delivery, focusing on insurance and healthcare systems. Responsibilities include capturing requirements, performing gap analysis, designing workflows, and leading cross-functional teams to optimize system performance and support digital transformation initiatives.

Support product and operations teams to design, document, and deliver scalable workflow solutions. Elicit and translate business, compliance, and operational requirements into testable user stories, process maps, and rule catalogs. Drive cross-functional alignment, operational readiness, and post-launch measurement to reduce risk and improve performance.

Supports financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and decision support for assigned product and channel lines. Analyzes volume, pricing, promotions, market performance, risks, and opportunities; assists with new product development financial models, accruals, controls, and strategic planning. Partners with Revenue, Product Management, and business stakeholders while contributing to finance process improvements and performance reviews.

Analyze payment, lending, marketing, and credit-risk data to identify business opportunities, build strategic recommendations, develop and monitor statistical models, and support product and pricing decisions. Partner with IT, Sales, Operations, Finance, and other teams to implement solutions, improve performance, and drive profitability. The role requires strong quantitative reasoning, business judgment, communication, leadership, and execution skills in a fast-paced environment.

The Subject Matter Expert will provide expertise in trading workflows and FIX protocol, developing product solutions, executing test plans, and mentoring junior team members.

Analyzes third-party risk data, builds and maintains reports, identifies emerging risks and control gaps, and translates findings into actionable business intelligence. Coordinates multiple strategic and business-as-usual projects while collaborating with internal risk teams and business partners. The role requires stakeholder influence, cross-functional relationship building, and support for risk-informed enterprise decisions within the Operational Risk Management function.

Partner with stakeholders to gather and document data requirements, translate needs into user stories and technical specs, perform SQL-based data analysis, source-to-target mapping, and validation, support data quality, lineage, and monitoring, serve as primary requirements contact, contribute to Agile ceremonies, assist change management and rollout, and maintain operational and client documentation.

The Senior Business Analyst will support Network strategy and transformation initiatives by mapping workflows, identifying operational friction, clarifying ownership, conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses, modeling capacity and readiness, and developing executive-ready recommendations. The role partners with senior leaders across functions to align stakeholders, design operating models, and move strategic initiatives from analysis into execution.

Partner with U100 sales to drive small-business growth by delivering analysis, reports, dashboards, and strategic sales support. Recommend process improvements, correct operational errors, lead projects, train sales on platforms, and support renewals and financial/contract evaluations.

Supports, integrates, upgrades, tests, and troubleshoots Epicor ERP, primarily accounting modules. Analyzes business processes, develops and modifies software solutions, evaluates releases, supports package selection, and prepares business cases. Provides user training, facilitates process improvement and kaizen events, documents workflows, and collaborates with business units and IT teams. Requires manufacturing and distribution knowledge, SQL and T-SQL expertise, process mapping skills, strong communication, and experience implementing, customizing, or integrating tier-two ERP systems.

Serves as the bridge between customer business objectives and technical implementation for Okta IAM deployments. Facilitates discovery workshops, maps current-state processes, documents functional and non-functional requirements, develops process flows and solution designs, and maintains requirements traceability. Partners with architects, consultants, QA, and project leadership throughout delivery, supports testing and acceptance criteria, contributes to change management and training, and assists with go-live hypercare and customer handoff.

Lead analytical efforts to inform product, pricing, marketing, and credit risk strategies. Build and test models, perform SQL-based analysis, develop recommendations, drive implementation with cross-functional partners, and monitor results to improve profitability and customer experience.

Serve as primary triage owner for escalated production defects across Investment Platform products. Troubleshoot using logs, SQL, monitoring and session-replay tools, determine root cause, classify issues, write requirements and acceptance criteria, coordinate fixes with developers/QA/product, manage backlog prioritization, document investigations and drive preventive improvements to reduce repeat incidents.

Leads technical business analysis across engineering, product, finance, and analytics teams. Translates business and regulatory reporting needs into requirements, data models, dbt models, SQL queries, metrics, and reporting solutions. Manages projects, mentors analysts, analyzes and reconciles data, resolves quality issues, and establishes testing, documentation, auditability, and data quality standards.

Provide strategic and analytical support to the EVP of Specialty Sales & Solutions by analyzing sales, financial, operational, and market data; building dashboards and forecasts; preparing executive materials; leading cross-functional projects; and identifying AI, automation, and analytics opportunities to improve decision-making and productivity.

Leads discovery and target-state design for client lifecycle management, including onboarding and KYC processes. Maps workflows, identifies control gaps and automation opportunities, translates insights into product requirements and delivery plans, and coordinates business, product, technology, architecture, and operations teams. Owns workstream scope, prioritization, governance, risks, metrics, and value realization while advancing scalable, compliant client experiences and platform strategy.