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Business Analyst Consultant

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About This Opportunity

At Trissential, we partner with some of North America's most respected organizations to lead business transformation, operational improvement, and technology modernization initiatives. Our clients aren't simply implementing new technology-they're improving how their businesses operate, strengthening customer experiences, enabling employee effectiveness, and delivering measurable business outcomes.

We're growing our community of experienced Business Analyst Consultants to support current and upcoming client initiatives. Our consultants help organizations improve business capabilities by understanding how work gets done today, defining how it should operate tomorrow, and partnering with business and technology teams to deliver practical solutions that create measurable value.

Whether you bring five years of business analysis experience or fifteen-plus years leading complex business transformation initiatives, you'll have opportunities to apply your expertise on meaningful client engagements while building trusted relationships and delivering lasting business value.

What You'll Do

Depending on the engagement, you may be responsible for:

Business Discovery & Analysis

• Partnering with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and desired business outcomes.
• Eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate stakeholder discovery, requirements analysis, business process documentation, meeting summaries, and business analysis artifacts while validating outputs through sound business judgment.
• Analyzing current-state business processes and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, customer experience, employee effectiveness, and overall business performance.
• Facilitating discovery sessions, interviews, workshops, and decision-making meetings to build alignment across stakeholders.
• Developing business process models, workflows, journey maps, and future-state operating models.

Solution Definition & Design

• Translating business needs into user stories, functional specifications, business rules, process documentation, and solution requirements.
• Collaborating with business leaders, architects, developers, infrastructure teams, and vendors to define practical solutions.
• Supporting evaluation and implementation of enterprise platforms, packaged software, and technology solutions.
• Using AI to explore solution alternatives, identify requirement gaps, evaluate impacts, and improve the completeness and quality of business and functional documentation.
• Analyzing business impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities throughout solution design.

Agile & Product Delivery

• Partnering with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, and QA teams throughout iterative delivery cycles.
• Refining product backlogs, writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and supporting sprint planning activities.
• Leveraging AI to assist with backlog refinement, user story development, acceptance criteria, impact analysis, and sprint readiness while maintaining alignment with business objectives.
• Clarifying business requirements throughout development while adapting to evolving priorities.
• Supporting backlog refinement, product demonstrations, release planning, and continuous improvement activities.
• Serving as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, or hybrid BA/Product Owner depending on client needs and delivery methodology.

Solution Delivery & Implementation

• Supporting solution configuration, testing, validation, and deployment activities where appropriate.
• Coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect triage, and business validation activities.
• Using AI-assisted analysis to validate business scenarios, identify edge cases, support test planning, and strengthen business validation activities prior to implementation.
• Verifying delivered solutions meet business objectives, quality expectations, and operational requirements.
• Supporting organizational readiness, communications, training, and successful solution adoption.
• Measuring solution effectiveness and identifying opportunities for continuous business improvement.

Consulting & Stakeholder Leadership

• Building trusted relationships with business and technology stakeholders across all organizational levels.
• Serving as the bridge between business teams and technical delivery teams.
• Communicating complex business and technical concepts in a clear and actionable manner.
• Identifying risks, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Providing analytical insights and recommendations that improve business outcomes and delivery success.
• Applying critical thinking to validate AI-generated recommendations, balance competing business priorities, and guide stakeholders toward practical, value-driven decisions.

What We're Looking For

Successful candidates typically possess:

• 5+ years of experience leading business analysis activities, with opportunities ranging from departmental initiatives to enterprise-scale transformation programs requiring 15+ years of consulting and business analysis experience.
• Experience supporting business transformation, technology implementation, operational improvement, or digital modernization initiatives.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within consulting or complex enterprise environments supporting cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to quickly understand client environments, business processes, and organizational priorities.
• Experience translating strategic business objectives into practical business and technology solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to build credibility, influence decisions, and foster collaboration across business and technology organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt across traditional, Agile, hybrid, and product-centric delivery models.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted tools to improve business analysis, process modeling, documentation, requirements management, and stakeholder communications.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated recommendations using sound business analysis principles, critical thinking, and practical business judgment.
• Demonstrated curiosity and adaptability in applying emerging technologies and AI to improve consulting effectiveness and client outcomes.

Experience We Value

Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly valued:

• Business Capability Improvement
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Architecture & Process Modeling
• Requirements Engineering
• Digital Transformation
• Product Ownership & Agile Delivery
• Cloud & Technology Modernization
• AI Enablement, Intelligent Automation & Business Process Optimization
• AI-Assisted Business Analysis & Requirements Engineering
• Data Analysis & Business Intelligence
• ERP, CRM, ITSM, or other Enterprise Platform Implementations
• Customer Operations Transformation
• System Configuration & Platform Administration
• Organizational Change & Business Readiness

Delivery Methodologies

Experience with one or more of the following delivery approaches:

• Agile
• Scrum
• Waterfall
• Hybrid Delivery Models
• Lean / Continuous Improvement

Industry Experience

Experience supporting clients in one or more of the following industries is beneficial:

• Energy & Utilities
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics
• Financial Services / Insurance
• Retail & Consumer Products
• Public Sector

Qualifications and Preferred Credentials

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred.

One or more of the following are considered a plus:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
• PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent Agile/Product certification
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification

Why Trissential

At Trissential, you'll work alongside experienced consultants who are passionate about helping clients solve meaningful business challenges. Our consultants are trusted advisors who combine business insight, analytical thinking, practical execution, and AI-enabled consulting practices to deliver measurable business results.

As part of our Business Analysis community, you'll have opportunities to:

• Help clients improve business capabilities and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with Fortune 1000, mid-market, and public sector organizations.
• Expand your experience across industries, technologies, delivery models, and modern AI-enabled consulting practices.
• Collaborate with experienced consulting professionals and subject matter experts.
• Build long-term client relationships by helping organizations solve complex business challenges and successfully deliver transformation initiatives.

What We Offer

At Trissential, we believe in flexibility, transparency, and rewarding expertise. When you join our client's team through Trissential, you receive enterpriselevel benefits and meaningful work.

• Competitive Compensation - $50 - 75 per hour. Please note that the compensation range displayed is a generalized range for pipelining purposes and may not reflect the final range for a specific role. Final compensation will be determined based on the role, skill alignment, years of experience, and fair, market-based rates by geography.
• Comprehensive Benefits for you and your dependents - Medical, dental, vision, free telehealth, HSA with company contribution, life and disability insurance, and 401k with matching
• Paid Time Off - Offers paid time away from work
• Career Growth - Exposure to enterprisescale modernization and AI initiatives
• Supportive Culture - Collaborative teams that value strong architecture and clean data design