Senior Business Analyst (Contract)

Hightower Advisors•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hightower Advisors is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst for a strategic initiative to centralize, standardize, and automate manager-fee billing across investment management and financial technology platforms. The role focuses on account-level manager-fee billing and more complex strategy- and sleeve-level billing scenarios involving investment managers and third parties. The Senior Business Analyst will lead requirements discovery, business-process analysis, and definition of data and integration requirements. The objective is to establish clear, validated business and functional requirements, system dependencies, and implementation scope so teams can design technical solutions, estimate effort, plan resources, and sequence delivery. This is a contract opportunity expected to last approximately six months, with a rate of up to $65 per hour. The stated work arrangement is in-office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting complex enterprise technology or financial systems initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to independently lead requirements gathering, business-process analysis, and cross-functional working sessions.
Experience with billing, revenue processing, accounting, or financial systems.
Strong understanding of system integrations, data flows, interface requirements, and data mapping.
Experience developing functional specifications, process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Experience in wealth management, investment management, or financial services.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with advisory or manager fees, fee schedules, AUM-based billing, and account- or sleeve-level billing.
Experience with Redi2, Salesforce, Oracle ERP, or similar enterprise platforms.
Familiarity with API and file-based integrations, SQL, and data analysis.
Experience supporting financial systems transformations and Agile delivery environments.

Responsibilities

Lead requirements discovery and working sessions with Billing, Investment Management, Accounting, Product, Technology, and external vendors.
Document current-state and future-state business processes, workflows, business rules, exceptions, and operational requirements.
Translate business needs into clear, structured, testable functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
Define data requirements, authoritative sources, system inputs and outputs, integration handoffs, and downstream dependencies.
Analyze manager-fee billing requirements, including fee schedules, effective dates, payer designation, fee calculations, fee initiation, changes, termination, and adjustments.
Identify requirements gaps, assumptions, risks, and cross-functional dependencies, and facilitate resolution with business and technology owners.
Partner with Product Owners, technical teams, and vendors to evaluate solution options and support technical feasibility assessments.
Maintain requirements documentation, decision logs, and traceability across project workstreams.
Support technical scoping, effort estimation, resource planning, and implementation planning with Product and Technology teams.
Produce a validated requirements baseline, process documentation, data and integration requirements, decision and dependency tracking, and a requirements and scoping package.