Business Analyst

Redwood Trust Inc•Irvine, CA

2d•$130,000 - $160,000

About The Position

The Business Analyst is the execution partner for CoreVest’s lending technology platforms across origination, underwriting, pricing, and servicing. The Business Analyst owns the detail — translating prioritized initiatives into precise, buildable requirements, well-formed user stories with testable acceptance criteria, and the analysis, documentation, and user acceptance testing that keep delivery moving. This role partners closely with Business Leadership, Sales, Capital Markets, Marketing, Design, Engineering, and Data to translate strategy into scalable, extensible product capabilities that improve speed-to-yes, operational efficiency, and borrower/broker experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
4+ years as a Business Analyst or Salesforce Business Systems Analyst, ideally in financial services or fintech.
Working knowledge of the loan origination and fulfillment lifecycle.
Hands-on Salesforce experience — able to read and understand configuration (objects, flows, validation rules, sharing) well enough to write grounded requirements; SFDC Admin/BSA experience strongly preferred.
Strong requirements craft: user stories, acceptance criteria, process mapping, and UAT.
Clear written and verbal communication; able to translate between business and engineering.
Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with lending products such as DSCR, bridge, fix-and-flip, and build-for-rent.
Exposure to Loan Origination Systems (LOS), pricing engines, or underwriting engines.
Understanding of API-driven integrations and how data moves between systems.
Experience in high-growth, regulated lending environments.

Responsibilities

Facilitate discovery and requirement-gathering sessions; distinguish surface-level requests from underlying business needs.
Document complete functional requirements and ensure no negative downstream impacts.
Perform research and analysis on regulations, systems, and business needs; translate findings into actionable product requirements.
Author clear, independent, testable user stories from the Business and Tehnology prioritized initiatives.
Keep the backlog refined and “ready” ahead of sprint planning, with acceptance criteria defined before development.
Map current- and future-state workflows across the loan origination and fulfillment lifecycle.
Analyze data and Salesforce configuration so requirements are grounded in how the system actually behaves.
Build and run test scenarios; organize and facilitate user acceptance testing.
Capture defects and feedback; support the Business accept/reject decisions against acceptance criteria.
Maintain requirements, process documentation, and release/change notes that Operations and Compliance can rely on.
Liaise across Sales, Operations, Capital Markets, and Engineering to gather input and keep stakeholders aligned on what is coming and why.
Use AI to draft first-pass requirements and user stories, summarize discovery sessions, generate test scenarios, analyze data, and accelerate documentation.