BMO - Business Analyst (Financial/Banking)
Role: Business Analyst (Senior)
Location: Chicago preferred (open to remote) - onsite 2x a week
Duration: 24 Months+ extension/conversion
Structure: W2 contract (no C2C or H1 sponsor)
Start Date: ASAP
Interview Process: 2 rounds
Compensation: $105,000 - $135,000
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Equipment ect.
*Must have previous Business Analyst experience working within banking or financial institutions*
Must Haves:
- 5+ years of Business Analyst experience supporting complex enterprise initiatives
- 3+ years of experience within banking or financial services organizations
- Strong experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and functional requirements (BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria)
- Proven ability to work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams
- Experience supporting Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery models
- Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes and system workflows
- Ability to facilitate requirement workshops, stakeholder meetings, and design sessions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate business needs into clear technical direction
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with lending systems, lending platforms, or lending-focused organizations
- Background in commercial lending, retail lending, credit, loan origination, or loan servicing
- Experience working with core banking systems and downstream integrations
- Data analysis experience (SQL, data validation, reporting, dashboards)
- Exposure to regulatory, risk, compliance, or audit-driven initiatives in banking
- Prior experience working with large enterprise banks or financial institutions
- Ability to support process re-engineering and optimization efforts
Day to Day:
- Partner with BMO business and technology stakeholders to gather and refine requirements
- Document current-state and future-state processes, workflows, and system interactions
- Translate business needs into functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Support backlog grooming, sprint planning, and ongoing Agile ceremonies
- Collaborate with development and QA teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood
- Support UAT planning, execution, and issue resolution
- Identify risks, dependencies, and gaps and proactively drive resolution
- Provide ongoing stakeholder communication and status updates
- Contribute to continuous improvement across banking and lending-related processes
