Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NinjaHoldings is a company focused on revolutionizing financial services for everyday Americans through digital banking and lending products. The Sr. Technical Business Analyst will bridge business objectives with technical solutions, managing a team and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery and alignment with regulatory standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic conversations with business and engineering teams to address reporting challenges, enhance business processes, and define high-impact initiatives
- Manage, mentor, and guide junior business analysts, fostering their development and aligning team efforts with organizational goals
- Drive project planning, scheduling, and monitoring to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with high quality
- Serve as the primary liaison between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment, clarity, and consistent communication
- Analyze complex business and reporting challenges and translate them into actionable technical solutions, including requirements definition, data modeling, dbt development, SQL analysis, and reporting design
- Champion process improvements, organizational alignment, and strategic decision-making
- Partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Finance teams to design, develop, test, and maintain dbt models that support operational, financial, and bank reporting requirements
- Write, optimize, validate, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries used for regulatory, bank partner, executive, and operational reporting
- Translate business and regulatory reporting requirements into scalable data models, metrics definitions, and reporting datasets while ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and auditability
- Perform data analysis, reconciliation, and validation activities to ensure reporting outputs meet business, compliance, and banking partner requirements
- Collaborate with engineering teams to establish data quality standards, testing frameworks, and documentation for reporting and analytics solutions
Skills
- 6+ years of professional experience as a business analyst, with at least 2 years in a senior or leadership role, preferably in the fintech or financial services industry
- Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring teams, with the ability to guide others and build high-performing teams
- Deep understanding of financial products, services, and the regulatory landscape affecting the fintech industry
- Expertise in data analytics, using tools to analyze financial data, market trends, and customer behavior, and translating findings into actionable strategies
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to influence stakeholders and foster collaboration across diverse teams
- Strong hands-on experience writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for reporting, analytics, and data validation in large-scale data environments
- Experience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting dbt (Data Build Tool) models, including data transformations, testing, documentation, and lineage management
- Proven ability to translate business, financial, and regulatory reporting requirements into technical specifications, data models, and reporting solutions
- Experience working with data warehouses and modern analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar)
- Familiarity with banking, lending, fintech, or regulatory reporting processes, including data reconciliation, audit controls, and reporting accuracy requirements
- Experience performing root-cause analysis and resolving data quality issues across reporting and analytics workflows
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Flexible, remote work
- Fun, fast-paced work environment
- Dynamic start-up culture
- Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
- Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
- Equal opportunity employer
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