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Western Alliance Bank

Senior Business Analyst – Digital Assets

Western Alliance Bank

. Serve as the lead business analyst for digital asset initiatives .

Posted 9/15/2026full-timePhoenix • Arizona • United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in business analysis and digital asset initiatives, with a strong focus on stakeholder collaboration, regulatory compliance, and process improvement. Proficient in translating business objectives into actionable requirements and facilitating testing and implementation across financial services.

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Business AnalysisDigital Asset EcosystemsRegulatory ComplianceProject Management FrameworkPayments Knowledge

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Hard Skills
Business Requirements DocumentationProcess FlowsUser StoriesAcceptance CriteriaFunctional SpecificationsTesting PlansRisk AssessmentOperational ReadinessDigital WalletsTokenization
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsStakeholder EngagementFacilitation SkillsCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
REST APIsISO 20022SFTP/FTPFIS IBS CoreActimize FraudFiserv EPPFinastra Total Messaging
Certifications & Qualifications
Project Management Professional
Industry Keywords
Banking OperationsTreasury ManagementPaymentsDigital Asset GovernanceAML/BSA Compliance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
PMPSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Serve as the lead business analyst for digital asset initiatives
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify, document, and prioritize business requirements
  • Facilitate workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder meetings
  • Translate business objectives into requirements, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications
  • Analyze end-to-end workflows for automation, scalability, risk reduction, and improved client experiences
  • Support digital asset product managers and project teams across discovery, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-production
  • Assist in defining capabilities for digital wallets, stablecoin services, digital asset custody, tokenization, API-enabled banking services, and real-time payment integrations
  • Collaborate with technology teams to validate solution designs and implementation
  • Track project progress, requirement changes, impacts, risks, and dependencies
  • Lead functional, integration, user acceptance, and production validation testing
  • Develop test plans, scenarios, and test cases
  • Coordinate testing and facilitate defect triage and remediation prioritization
  • Document current-state and future-state processes
  • Identify process gaps, operational risks, and efficiency/scalability improvements
  • Support operational readiness, procedures, training materials, support documentation, and transition-to-business-as-usual planning
  • Assist with controls, monitoring, reporting, and governance processes
  • Partner with Operations, Technology, Product, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Customer Implementations, business leaders, and external vendors
  • Prepare executive-ready status updates, business cases, process summaries, and project communications
  • Ensure solutions comply with banking regulations, AML/BSA requirements, sanctions screening controls, and digital asset governance standards
  • Support risk assessments, control validation, regulatory/audit/compliance documentation, project reviews, and examinations

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of related experience in Business Analysis, Banking Operations, Product Delivery, Treasury Management, Payments, Technology, or related financial services roles
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • Entry level to intermediate knowledge of digital asset ecosystems, including buying, selling, sending and receiving digital assets, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits
  • Intermediate knowledge of banking operations, treasury management, deposit operations, payment processing, and commercial banking products
  • Intermediate knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
  • Familiarity with REST APIs, ISO 20022 message formats, SFTP/FTP, and system integration concepts
  • Intermediate knowledge in banking or financial services operations domain and experience writing business requirements with subject matter expertise
  • Knowledge of project management framework methodology, including managing requirements and testing efforts across large-scale transformational projects
  • Experience leading business process improvement initiatives, documenting objectives and stakeholders, identifying resources, managing timelines/task lists, and testing/implementation efforts
  • Entry level to intermediate payments knowledge including ACH, Wires, SWIFT, RTP, Digital Assets, FTP/SFTP, and API banking
  • Knowledge of risk systems associated with transaction processing is a plus
  • Knowledge of core banking/deposit systems is a plus
  • Vendor experience with FIS IBS Core, Actimize Fraud and Sanctions, Fiserv EPP, other wire systems, or Finastra Total Messaging
  • Advanced speaking and writing communication skills
  • Project Management Professional preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salaries
  • Ownership stake in the company
  • Medical and dental insurance
  • Time off
  • 401k matching program
  • Tuition assistance program
  • Employee volunteer program
  • Wellness program
  • Opportunity to bolster business knowledge and gain hands-on career experience