Top Business Analyst Jobs in Chicago, IL

Manage post-award financial activities for grants, contracts, and clinical trials including award setup, invoicing, cash management, month-end close, financial reporting, compliance, project closeout, audit support, and analysis to ensure GAAP and sponsor regulation adherence.

Lead and manage initiatives for the treasury derivatives trading desk and back office, including adding new products, implementing multicurrency trading, enhancing market and credit risk, and automating processes. Serve as business analyst and project leader; liaise with traders, back office users, and developers. Require deep knowledge of derivative products, valuations, and risk simulations. Strong negotiation and communication skills; experience with Misys Summit FT is a plus.

Perform business and systems analysis for e-commerce and retail projects: define requirements, design solutions, ensure requirements traceability, support QA/testing, produce technical documentation, and work across the project lifecycle in Agile teams.

Provide specialist functional and configuration expertise for SAP WM, IM and MM in ECC 6.0. Configure warehouse structures, material master extensions, procurement and inventory processes, batch and shelf-life management, replenishment, cross-docking and yard management. Ensure configuration integrity across landscapes, manage master data and data migrations, write detailed functional specifications, resolve cross-module dependencies, and support upgrades and enhancements.

Prepare and improve financial analyses and driver-based models to support decision-making; analyze reports to identify trends; assess Global Operations performance and efficiency; build one-off models for what-if and deal analysis; support ad hoc analytic requests.

Translate workflow processes into clear business requirements; collaborate with product, operations, and engineering to drive automation, QA, and enhancements; analyze data for insights; support testing, documentation, training, and process optimization for claims and care management applications.

Drive strategic roadmap and execution for Partner/Alliances systems. Manage system lifecycle, implement automation, ensure data governance and KPIs, troubleshoot issues, produce documentation, lead change management, and coordinate cross-functional teams (including IT) to optimize partner experience.

The Senior Data Analyst oversees performance reporting tools, automates data pipelines, conducts quantitative analyses, and communicates findings to various stakeholders.

Partner with CX and cross-functional teams to build and maintain reporting infrastructure and dashboards, analyze support and operational metrics (CSAT, FCR, TTR, case trends), identify improvement opportunities, project-manage analytical initiatives, inform capacity and staffing planning, present actionable insights to leadership, and document reporting changes for smooth rollouts.

The Senior Business Analyst will analyze business challenges, support marketing and credit risk initiatives, and collaborate with multiple departments to enhance performance and strategy execution, leveraging analytics and problem-solving skills.

Evaluate AI-generated responses for business users by reviewing personalization against your professional Gmail history. Rate relevance, accuracy, helpfulness, and personalization; compare responses; identify incorrect personalization or unsupported assumptions; provide clear, structured feedback while following guidelines and maintaining data privacy.

Evaluate AI-generated responses for business users using your corporate Gmail history. Assess relevance, accuracy, personalization, and identify incorrect personalization or unsupported assumptions. Compare responses, provide clear, structured feedback, follow evaluation guidelines, and maintain data privacy. Work remotely full-time (4–40 hours/week) with required overlap with PST for a 16-week contract.

Evaluate AI-generated responses using your personal Gmail account to assess relevance, personalization, accuracy, and helpfulness across English and German. Provide detailed feedback, compare responses, identify incorrect personalization or unsupported assumptions, and follow confidentiality and consent procedures.

Serve as liaison between clients and developers for a cloud-based SaaS product: analyze problems, write technical specifications, prioritize work, test changes, implement and train clients, and provide ongoing client support.

Lead and coordinate incident response to reduce frequency, duration, and impact of production issues. Drive incident communications, own action items, facilitate risk assessments and postmortems, analyze incident data and trends, and recommend/process improvements. Participate in on-call rotation and work assigned weekday shift hours to support organizational readiness and learning.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, manage Scrum and Kanban workflows, maintain Kanban boards, remove impediments, track Agile metrics, and coordinate ServiceNow enhancements, releases, and cross-functional delivery to ensure sprint commitments are met.

Support senior analysts on LifePRO system implementations by gathering and documenting business requirements, creating and executing test cases, participating in system testing and validation, reproducing issues, assisting proof-of-concept work, attending client meetings, and learning insurance and actuarial concepts under supervision.

Lead business analysis across the project lifecycle: elicit and document requirements, design solutions, support testing and implementation, manage scope and risks, facilitate stakeholder workshops, resolve issues, serve as LifePRO underwriting SME, and mentor junior analysts.

Bridge business, product, and engineering to define requirements and user stories for API-driven financial platforms. Design digital onboarding, account maintenance, and money-movement workflows, validate integrations and data flows, perform functional testing and edge-case analysis, and ensure solutions meet regulatory, risk, and legal requirements while collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Design teams.

Gather and document business and functional requirements, analyze and improve processes, create BRDs/FSDs and user stories, support solution design, validate via UAT, and develop reports/dashboards while managing stakeholders and change.

Lead discovery and analysis to replace a legacy system with a cloud-native data ingestion platform. Gather requirements, define pipelines and reconciliation processes, manage agile backlog and delivery roadmap, validate real-time and batch processing, and ensure documentation, monitoring, and smooth handover to support teams.

Elicit and document business requirements, analyze and improve processes, create functional specifications, perform data analysis, manage stakeholders and project timelines, and participate in testing to ensure delivery quality.

Lead business process evaluation and optimization, gather requirements, document findings, perform UAT, manage projects and resources, present results to stakeholders, train and coach junior staff, and ensure solutions meet investment operations needs.

Gather and document functional requirements for agent-facing servicing applications, define integrations/APIs with core banking systems, consult with stakeholders, identify AI/ML opportunities (fraud, KYC, automation), support testing and implementation, and act as SME while managing risks and compliance.

Perform business requirements elicitation and documentation, analyze and improve processes, produce functional specifications, perform data analysis, manage stakeholders and project timelines, coordinate testing, and support cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.