Senior Business Analyst - Retirement Strategies Institutional Platform

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Business Analyst on the Retirement Strategies Institutional Platform, you will partner with product, journey, technology, design, and readiness teams to shape and improve technology solutions supporting Prudential’s Institutional product lines. You will serve as a key link between business partners and agile teams—leading discovery, clarifying needs, defining requirements, and helping translate complex business problems into practical, high-value solutions for our customers. This role requires strong analytical thinking, sound business judgment, and the ability to work across functions to move work from early discovery through delivery and launch readiness. The ideal candidate brings strong communication and collaboration skills, comfort working in agile environments, and a learning mindset that helps teams adapt, improve, and deliver value faster. This will be a hybrid role based out of Scranton, PA, Fort Washington, PA. or Newark, NJ. For exceptionally well-qualified candidates, Virtual working arrangement may be considered, with expectation of travel as required.

Requirements

• Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes needed to make sound decisions in the context of Prudential’s business
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to learn continuously through self-initiative, experimentation, and new challenges
• Ability to manage shifting priorities, work across multiple stakeholders, and meet ambitious timelines
• Strong business insight and sound judgment when working through ambiguity
• Applied experience and/or expertise with several of the following: Effective Communication, Decision-Making and Critical Thinking, Business Acumen, Interpersonal Relationships, Analytical Thinking, Data Synthesis and Storytelling
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

Nice To Haves

• The ideal candidate is a change champion who is willing to challenge the status quo, explore innovative solutions, and help teams deliver value in smarter and more efficient ways.
• Strong working knowledge of the Pension Risk Transfer business is a plus

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and journey leads to lead discovery of business and customer needs, including organizing and facilitating discovery efforts, documenting current and future states, and contributing to minimum viable product definition
• Lead research and analysis activities needed to define, refine, and scope features and stories ahead of delivery
• Refine the product backlog with agile team members, serving as a subject matter expert from discovery work and supporting feature and user story development
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Tech Leads, Designers, and other team members to ensure solutions are well understood, well defined, and aligned to intended business value
• Support testing and validation efforts, where applicable, to ensure acceptance criteria are met through activities such as smoke testing, functional testing, and regression support
• Build knowledge of business processes and serve as a liaison between business partners and agile teams, helping answer questions, clarify needs, and support effective decision-making
• Partner with UX and organizational readiness teams to gather requirements, prepare for launch, and ensure end users have the documentation, support, and context needed for successful adoption
• Help ensure product features and stories align with product vision and priorities by reviewing work, providing feedback, and supporting backlog readiness and sequencing
• Drive clarity across ambiguous problem spaces by aligning stakeholders, surfacing trade-offs, and helping teams move from discovery to delivery with confidence
• Support product and journey leadership in setting an ambitious and clear product vision and communicating that vision effectively to stakeholders and team members
• Work on significant and often complex problems where analysis requires evaluation of multiple business, process, technology, data, and customer considerations
• Apply independent judgment in assessing needs, identifying options, and helping shape approaches that influence product direction and delivery outcomes
• Operate with meaningful autonomy while collaborating closely across business and technology teams
• Contribute to product planning and roadmap activities by connecting discovery insights, delivery priorities, and business needs
• Play an important role in improving how teams learn, refine, and deliver in agile environments

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

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