Business Analyst

LRS Consulting is seeking a Business Analyst / Project Coordinator who enjoys connecting business needs with technology solutions and helping teams bring ideas to life. This contract-to-hire opportunity offers the chance to work with business and technical stakeholders, drive project success, and contribute to initiatives that deliver measurable business value.

Location: Dallas, TX (Contract-to-Hire)

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders and technical teams to understand business needs, goals, and project objectives.
• Gather, document, validate, and manage business requirements, process flows, and functional specifications.
• Support project planning activities, including schedule management, status reporting, meeting coordination, and action item tracking.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, requirements workshops, and project working sessions.
• Translate business requirements into actionable deliverables for technical teams.
• Track project milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, escalating concerns as needed.
• Maintain project documentation, meeting notes, decision logs, and project artifacts.
• Help define business metrics, reporting requirements, KPIs, and success measures.
• Perform data analysis and research to identify trends, data quality issues, and process improvement opportunities.
• Support testing activities, including test case reviews, user acceptance testing (UAT), and defect tracking.
• Communicate project status, updates, and outcomes to stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.
• Collaborate with both local and remote team members to support successful project delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Finance, Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 2 to 5 years of experience in Business Analysis, Project Coordination, Project Management, or a related role.
• Experience gathering, documenting, and managing business requirements.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder meetings and requirements discussions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or similar delivery methodologies.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data, reporting, analytics, or business intelligence initiatives.
• Understanding of data quality concepts and data analysis techniques.
• Familiarity with financial services, lending, leasing, banking, or capital markets environments.
• Exposure to SQL, Power BI, or related reporting and analytics tools.

What We're Looking For

• Strong attention to detail and follow-through.
• Ability to build relationships across business and technology teams.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
• A proactive, customer-focused approach and a sense of accountability.
• Ability to balance project coordination responsibilities with business analysis activities.

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship, status, or protected veteran status.

In some cases, LRS, uses generative artificial intelligence ("AI") in support of our hiring processes. LRS takes steps to ensure the use of AI does not result in discrimination based on protected class(es). AI may be used in the hiring process solely in support of the assessment of candidate qualifications. All decisions in the hiring process are made by LRS employees. If AI will be used in the hiring process for the position for which you are applying, you will be notified and will have the opportunity to opt out. Please contact AI.Questions@lrs.com with any questions.