What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at Haystack?
Join a fast-paced finance technology initiative where you'll help onboard forecasting models into a financial planning platform and play a key role in improving how business stakeholders, engineering teams, and data partners work together. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented Business Analyst who enjoys translating business needs into technical solutions, improving workflows, and ensuring forecasting outputs are accurate, documented, and ready for production.
The Role
The Role
- Gather and document reporting and forecasting requirements from finance stakeholders and translate them into clear technical specifications.
- Define data needs and source-data expectations for forecasting models, identify gaps, and recommend practical solutions within platform constraints.
- Partner with engineering teams to support the design, build, testing, and deployment of model enhancements in a planning and forecasting environment.
- Create wireframes and recommend user experience improvements that streamline forecast adjustments and simplify how users interact with the system.
- Develop and execute user acceptance testing plans to confirm changes produce accurate and financially sound results before release.
- Help strengthen validation controls and partner with technical teams to address issues affecting reporting accuracy or data consistency.
- Investigate discrepancies across reporting outputs and work across teams to identify and resolve root causes.
- 4 to 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst in finance systems or enterprise planning tools.
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical documentation for engineering teams.
- Experience assessing current workflows and recommending improved processes and user-friendly solutions.
- Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling, and scenario analysis.
- Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to query relational databases for validation and analysis.
- Experience planning and executing UAT in a structured environment.
- Competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement.
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced finance technology environment.
- Collaborative workplace with a focus on documentation, process improvement, and cross-functional partnership.