IT Business Analyst

We are a Firm where people truly believe in what they do and strive to achieve the highest standards of performance and success. This position is based in the Firm's global operations center in Tampa, FL. General Description: We are seeking an IT Business Analyst to join our team. The IT Business Analyst is a key facilitator between the business stakeholders and delivery teams to support the identification, definition and delivery of initiatives across the firm, ensuring business problems and opportunities are clearly understood before solutions are developed. As a member of the IT Portfolio Governance team, the Analyst collaborates with stakeholders to understand business challenges and opportunities, analyze current processes, and define clear requirements and recommendations for improvement. The IT Business Analyst plays a vital role in shaping initiatives prior to delivery by gathering and analyzing requirements, mapping business processes, and supporting the development of solutions that align with portfolio priorities and organizational strategy. Key Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions: Collaborate with stakeholders across the firm to gather, document and analyze business and functional requirements to support initiative definition, solution design, and process improvement and automation. Work with stakeholders to clarify and define business problems and opportunities, ensuring initiatives address root causes and deliver measurable value including identifying opportunities for automation where applicable. Evaluate current business processes and workflows to identify opportunities for optimization, efficiency improvements, automation and enhance service delivery. Conduct feasibility reviews and analysis, including cost-benefit analysis, to support decision-making and prioritization of initiatives. Facilitate stakeholder workshops, interviews and working sessions to understand business needs and translate them into clearly defined requirements. Develop and maintain process maps, business requirements documentation and supporting analysis to ensure initiatives are well understood prior to delivery, including maintaining full traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle. Support the development of initiative proposals and business cases by providing structured analysis and documentation. Work with project managers, technical teams and business stakeholders to define initiative scope, objectives, risks, deliverables and resource considerations. Conduct system and data analysis to support the evaluation of technology solutions that leverage AI and meet business and stakeholder needs. Provide insights and recommendations to all levels of stakeholders throughout the organization to support effective decision making and alignment with portfolio priorities. Support usability testing, pilot cycles, user acceptance testing and validation activities to ensure designed solutions meet agreed business requirements. Produce clear d