Sr Business Analyst
Gallagher Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States · $86K–$168K/yr
Insurance · 5,001-10,000 employees
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About the role
The Senior Business Analyst acts as a liaison between customers and the technical team to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements. They are responsible for defining project needs, creating workflows, and collaborating with developers to ensure successful implementation and quality assurance.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have a University Degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. Strong analytical skills and the ability to reconcile conflicting information from multiple sources are required.
Benefits
Full description
Introduction
At Gallagher Bassett, we're there when it matters most because helping people through challenging moments is more than just our job, it’s our purpose. Every day, we help clients navigate complexity, support recovery, and deliver outcomes that make a real difference in people’s lives. It takes empathy, precision, and a strong sense of partnership—and that’s exactly what you’ll find here. We’re a team of fast-paced fixers, empathetic experts, and outcomes drivers — people who care deeply about doing the right thing and doing it well. Whether you're managing claims, supporting clients, or improving processes, you’ll play a vital role in helping businesses and individuals move forward with confidence. Here, you’ll be supported by a culture that values teamwork, encourages curiosity, and celebrates the impact of your work. Because when you’re here, you’re part of something bigger. You’re part of a team that shows up, stands together, and leads with purpose.
How you'll make an impact
Gallagher Bassett is seeking a seasoned Senior Business Analyst that will serve as the liaison between the customer community and the technical development team. This person will be responsible for eliciting, analyzing, validating, specifying, verifying, and managing the business needs of the project stakeholders, including customers and end users. The successful candidate will work closely with business units, subject matter experts and technical resources to identify business needs, define projects, develop requirements and manage the development effort to completion.
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Define and document internal and external user interfaces and support system and data requirement clarification and definition.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts and decompose high-level information into details.
- Work with functional leads to transform and develop new requirements into design and implementation.
- Create and maintain workflows, approval processes, and validation rules based on internal stakeholder requirements.
- Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
- Assist in quality assurance and defining testing strategy and risks.
About You
Required:
- Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
Compensation and benefits
At Gallagher, we believe supporting our colleagues goes far beyond the role itself. For more information, visit our Benefits page.
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits programs designed to support your well-being
- Career development opportunities and ongoing learning
- A collaborative, people-first culture with accessible leadership
- The opportunity to do meaningful work with global reach and local impact
At Gallagher, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to join our Talent Community to stay connected to additional career opportunities. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles.
Gallagher is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)
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