Business Analysis Careers

Business analysis is distinct from financial analysis, project management, quality assurance, organizational development, testing, training and documentation development. However, depending on the organization, a business analyst may perform some or all of these related functions.

BA Career Focus

Business analysis job profiles can be organized into the following three categories:
Generalist

• Competent across all areas of business analysis
• Uses a variety of techniques in initiatives of varying scope and circumstances
• Found at various levels in the organization

Specialist

• Possesses solid or advanced subject matter expertise in specific areas
• Applies a more focused set of techniques with greater levels of expertise to potentially resolve extremely complex business problems
• May be at any level of experience

Hybrid

• Demonstrates some degree of competency across a more limited set of knowledge areas or tasks
• Requires some degree of competency in business analysis and some other discipline
• Performs multiple roles: a “jack of all trades”

	Project/IT Executes projects	Transition/Functional Guides projects	Enterprise/Strategic Creates projects
Generalist	Business Analyst (Project) Management Consultant	Account Manager Business Consultant Customer Relationship Manager Management Consultant Portfolio Manager	Account Manager Business Architect Management Consultant Strategic Planner
Specialist	Agile Business Analyst Business Intelligence Analyst Business Rules Analyst Data Analyst Domain Expert (SME) Process Analyst Product Owner Requirements Engineer/Manager Systems Analyst (I)	Business Intelligence Analyst Domain Expert (SME) Functional Business Analyst Process Owner Product Manager Service Owner Systems/Solution Architect (II)	Domain Expert (SME) IT Strategist Process Architect
Hybrid	BA+PM QA, Development DBA Information Architect Product Manager Project Manager QA Analyst Systems Analyst (II) Usability/UXP	Mid-to Senior Management Product Manager Solution Architect (I) Systems Analyst (III)	CXO Enterprise Architect