Join a collaborative technology team supporting commercial real estate lending initiatives through thoughtful analysis, process improvement, and solution delivery. This hybrid Senior Business Analyst role offers the opportunity to partner with business and technology stakeholders to shape capabilities across the loan lifecycle and help drive meaningful operational impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions and requirements workshops with business and technology partners.
• Gather, analyze, document, and manage functional and non-functional requirements for complex initiatives.
• Translate business needs into user stories, process flows, business rules, and technical requirements.
• Assess how changes affect related applications, integrations, and downstream users.
• Document current and future business processes and identify opportunities for efficiency and automation.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, product owners, and subject matter experts to support solution design.
• Support enhancements and modernization efforts for commercial real estate lending platforms and related applications.
• Analyze deal intake, underwriting, approval workflows, covenant management, document handling, and portfolio oversight processes.
• Develop data mapping and source-to-target requirements for system integrations.
• Help define testing strategies, coordinate user acceptance testing, and support release readiness activities.

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of business analysis experience supporting enterprise technology solutions.
• Proven ability to manage requirements across complex systems with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong experience eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements.
• Experience working in Agile environments and with SDLC practices.
• Ability to create process models, workflows, use cases, and business requirement documentation.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build alignment across teams.
• Confidence influencing decisions and driving consensus in a collaborative setting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in commercial lending or commercial real estate lending.
• Exposure to Moody's CreditLens or similar commercial credit platforms.
• Understanding of CRE origination, underwriting, approval, and portfolio management processes.
• Experience with data mapping, integrations, and enterprise data platforms.
• Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and process modeling tools.
• Working knowledge of banking regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting cloud-based or SaaS lending solutions.

Horizontal is committed to building an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, respected, and encouraged. We believe equity and belonging strengthen teams, improve outcomes, and help create better experiences for everyone.