Chief Business Analyst with Product Ownership

We are looking for a Chief Business Analyst with Product Ownership responsibilities to take end-to-end ownership of a complex Bill of Materials web application with critical financial calculations and limited existing documentation. You will drive discovery, documentation, and delivery while acting as the single source of truth for business logic and product direction—apply to help shape the product with confidence and clarity.

Responsibilities

• Own the product’s business logic, including financial calculations, formulas, and summarization rules
• Validate monetary calculations by analyzing rounding behavior, aggregation logic, and formula correctness
• Reverse-engineer current system behavior to recover undocumented business rules and processes
• Document end-to-end business flows, including happy paths, edge cases, exceptions, and dependencies
• Build and maintain a living knowledge base of rules, decision trees, and process maps
• Lead discovery sessions to identify needs, pain points, and opportunities with stakeholders and users
• Translate needs into EPICs and User Stories with clear scope, value, and assumptions
• Write testable acceptance criteria in Gherkin (Given/When/Then) for delivery alignment
• Manage and prioritize the backlog to balance stakeholder expectations and delivery capacity
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability from discovery through implementation and validation
• Set expectations on scope, timelines, and trade-offs and drive decisions when opinions conflict
• Handle pushback and complaints professionally and convert friction into actionable outcomes
• Create user-facing documentation such as guides, FAQs, and manuals to support adoption

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in business analysis with product ownership focus
• Experience eliciting requirements through workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions
• Experience writing EPICs, User Stories, and acceptance criteria using Gherkin (Given/When/Then)
• Strong stakeholder management skills with proven ability to handle high-friction, demanding stakeholders
• Strong project ownership mindset with ability to operate autonomously as the go-to product expert
• Strong numerical reasoning skills to validate complex financial formulas, rounding rules, and aggregations
• Strong documentation skills for reverse-engineering and documenting undocumented or legacy systems
• Strong attention to detail for monetary calculations and edge-case handling
• Strong communication skills to set expectations, explain trade-offs, and align conflicting viewpoints
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2+), able to lead discussions and produce clear documentation

Nice to have

• Experience with financial or accounting applications and Bill of Materials systems
• Familiarity with ERP or supply chain domains
• Experience with requirements and change management frameworks
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, Miro, or similar tools
• Basic SQL or data querying skills to validate calculations independently