Lead Business Analyst

Thomson Reuters • Eagan, MN

5d • $110,000 - $204,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Engineering Enablement team, part of Technology Design & Integration (TechDI), plays a crucial role in Thomson Reuters’ transformation into an operating and content-driven technology company. TechDI enhances strategic decision-making, prioritization, and business design across the enterprise by employing industry-standard frameworks, methods, and tools to foster alignment and improve both customer and colleague experiences. Within TechDI, Engineering Enablement acts as a bridge between high-level business intent and execution-ready technical solutions for complex, cross-system initiatives. The team ensures early alignment, decision clarity, and execution readiness by translating business needs into structured detailed requirements, technical designs, and traceable delivery artifacts. As a Lead Business Analyst, you will be instrumental in a significant strategic program aimed at modernizing and aligning our technology stack. This role centers on understanding, validating, and driving alignment and standardization across Finance and Reporting-related business requirements, ensuring consistency, traceability, and readiness for downstream delivery. You will collaborate closely with Finance, Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Program teams to clarify intricate requirements, resolve cross-system dependencies, and foster a shared understanding among stakeholders. Serving as a trusted thought partner, you will contribute to shaping scalable, standardized approaches for business requirements, reporting definitions, and design decisions that can be applied across various initiatives and portfolios.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline; an advanced degree is considered an asset.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, technical/functional analysis, or related roles within complex, technology-enabled environments.
• Proven ability to lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives involving Finance, Technology, and Data domains.
• Strong understanding of business architecture and business analysis concepts, including process modelling, requirements decomposition, decision traceability, and operating model considerations.
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple systems and platforms, with the ability to reason about end-to-end impacts and dependencies.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with confidence influencing senior leaders and navigating ambiguity.
• Highly structured and analytical, with the ability to synthesise complex information into clear insights and actionable outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise, executive-level documentation and presentations.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment while driving standards, consistency, and quality.
• Confident in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders.
• Collaborative and team-focused, with a willingness to take initiative.
• Energetic, with drive, enthusiasm, and natural skills in relationship development.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a large software or business information company is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis, validation, and standardization of complex business requirements, with a strong focus on Finance, Reporting, and cross-system data dependencies.
• Translate high-level business scenarios and policies into clear, structured, and traceable functional and technical requirements that are ready for execution.
• Drive alignment across Finance, Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Delivery teams by facilitating working sessions, decision forums, and design reviews.
• Own and maintain key design and requirements artifacts, including business scenarios, service blueprints, traceability matrices, and feature-product mapping.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and variances across requirements, systems, and reporting models, and proactively drive resolution and standardization.
• Support adoption of standard frameworks, taxonomies, and tooling (e.g., ADO structures, traceability models) to improve delivery consistency and reporting transparency.
• Provide thought leadership on business analysis and business architecture concepts, ensuring designs align to enterprise principles while remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused.
• Partner closely with Delivery and Program leads to ensure requirements and decisions support stage-gate readiness, sequencing, and risk mitigation.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly through executive-ready materials, summaries, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth: Culture of continuous learning and skill development, Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Social Impact: Two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
• Competitive 401k plan with company match.
• Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.
• Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee.
• Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee.
• Access to 529 Plan.
• Commuter benefits.
• Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior