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About the role
What they do
A Business Analyst turns business needs into clear requirements, process flows, and decisions the project team can act on. In freelance work, this often means bridging the gap between business, IT, and operations so everyone works from the same brief.
- Gather and structure requirements from stakeholders
- Map current and target processes
- Write user stories, epics, and functional specs
- Support test cases, UAT, and sign-off
- Clarify scope changes and business impact
Core skills
Strong Business Analysts are precise listeners and clear writers. They can ask the right follow-up questions, spot gaps in assumptions, and keep complex topics moving without losing detail.
- Requirements engineering and workshop facilitation
- Process analysis and gap analysis
- Stakeholder management across business and IT
- Documentation in plain, structured language
- Comfort with tools like Jira, Confluence, Visio, and Excel
When to bring one in
Companies usually hire a freelance Business Analyst when an internal team is overloaded, a transformation project needs extra structure, or a new system has to be translated into business terms. This is common in banking, insurance, logistics, and industrial firms in Frankfurt, where many projects involve regulated processes, legacy systems, and multiple stakeholders.
Freelancers also help when the company needs a neutral person to challenge vague requirements, prepare a new product launch, or support a migration without adding a permanent headcount.
Typical deliverables
A good Business Analyst leaves behind documents and decisions that reduce rework later. The exact output depends on the project, but it usually includes a mix of analysis, workshops, and validation work.
- Business and functional requirements
- Process maps and workflow descriptions
- User stories and acceptance criteria
- Impact analysis and change notes
- Test support for UAT and defect clarification
What good looks like
Top Business Analysts are not just note-takers. They make trade-offs visible, keep scope realistic, and turn messy input into a shared view of what will be built or changed.
They are especially strong when working with product owners, solution architects, and developers. A solid BA knows when to go deep into details and when to stop analysis and drive a decision.
Working style
For freelance assignments, clarity matters early. The best results come when the scope, stakeholders, systems, and expected outputs are known before the work starts. Many Business Analysts work well both remotely and on site, but on-site sessions can help in discovery workshops, process reviews, and user training.
In Frankfurt, English is often enough for international teams, but German can be important when the role touches local operations, end users, or documentation.
Meet FRATCH Business Analysts
Ornel Franck Wora Yeno
Purchasing Manager, Logistics, IT Manager & Software Architect
Last position:
Purchasing Manager, Logistics & IT Manager at Onlinehandler
Proactive support of management in business field development & innovation management
New development of a suite of business applications for analyzing valuation, P&L, and market price risk data
Automation of all internal and external business and work processes
Development of AI-based and AI-supported ETL processes as well as data analysis
Business use-case development
Business and work process optimization
Enterprise architecture management
Sales data analysis and forecasting as well as capture
Inventory management & reordering
Supplier management and communication
Customs processing & clearance
Shipping handling & warehouse coordination
Interface management
Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, JTL-Wawi, JTL-WMS, OTTO Partner Connect (OPC), Amazon Seller Central, DHL Global Forwarding, Jira, Draw.IO, Java (8,17,21,25), Jenkins, SonarQube, Git, Gitea, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL, Docker, Local LLMs, Postman, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports
Thomas Hühne
Project Manager | M&A & Regulatory
Last position:
Project Manager & Senior Business Analyst at HSBC INKA
KVG Carve-Out – Project Manager for Workstream Compliance, Legal, Front Office & Audit
- Responsible for project management of the workstream incl. planning, tracking, dependency management, and decision preparation
- Structured the target process landscape after the carve-out; facilitated workshops to define roles and interfaces with Compliance, Legal, Front Office, and Audit
- Created policies & guidelines for investment processes; ensured audit-ready documentation and coordinated cross-functional stakeholders
- Coordinated dependencies and deliveries between workstreams; reported to project lead and SteerCo
Ebru Ataman
Business Analyst | Project & Product Manager | PMO | CRM & Salesforce | MarTech | SaaS & Rollout Management | Digital
Last position:
Product Operations Manager, Media Operations & Growth, Global Marketing at Zalando SE
- End-to-end responsibility for the successful implementation and continuous optimization of Mediatool for strategic media planning (offline & online).
- Development and management of efficient onboarding, configuration, and support processes for international stakeholder teams.
- Leadership of API integrations to connect external systems (e.g., for result tracking and performance measurement).
- Advising departments on tool usage and development, including workshop design, training, and knowledge transfer.
- Establishment and maintenance of comprehensive PMO tracking for all tasks, milestones, and deliverables.
- Prioritization and documentation of requirements, change requests, and bugs in Jira, with transparent communication via Confluence.
- Systematic evaluation of user feedback to derive data-driven optimization measures.
- Responsibility for the monthly Mediatool communication newsletter, including content creation for users and leadership.
Minh Doan
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager
Last position:
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager at Finance and Insurance
Introducing 5 different process applications for various teams
Release planning: scope and time management
Resource/capacity planning
Conducting sprint planning / retrospectives
Increment planning (multiple sprints)
Preparing steering committee meetings / reporting to the executive board
Coordinating / aligning with external suppliers / deliveries
Multi-project resource planning
Aligning with the business unit and development team
Identifying best practices with IBM BAW
Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers
Collecting KPIs using LogScale
Analyzing application errors with LogScale / queries
Defining user stories / aligning requirements with the business unit and development team
Testing and defect tracking
UI/UX design of the application
Preparing and facilitating brown-paper workshop
Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution
Recording team velocity / metrics
Executing tests
Scripts for automated testing
Organizing tests with the business unit and IT
Recording and prioritizing defects
Setting up and operating the application
Setting up application monitoring with LogScale dashboards
Checking health endpoints with PowerShell
Post mortem analysis
Setting up incident management
Setting up problem management
Analyzing errors using LogScale queries and dashboard
Pre-processing data for AI
Conducting evaluation with AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG
Installing runtime environments for LLMs (large language model)
Evaluating various LLMs
Installing RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and integrating with LLM
Extracting unstructured data with LLM and RAG
Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), WebSphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, PowerShell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber
Olga Lewandowska
IT Business Analyst and Test Manager
Last position:
Business Analyst at Start-up
Analysis and design of functional requirements for an AI-based forecasting model in (XRP) crypto trading to support trading decisions.
Identification, classification, and validation of relevant input sources.
Design and execution of business tests to verify data and model quality.
Analysis of the regulatory environment for using robo-advisors in the crypto sector.
Leonid Ravin
Business Analyst | Requirements Engineer (certified) | Requirements Manager
Last position:
IT Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer at S-Payment GmbH / Sparkasse (DSV-Gruppe)
- Business analysis of payments for the introduction of Wero EPI in Germany.
- Analysis and optimization of merchant processes in the context of acquiring and issuing.
- Analysis of interfaces for instant payments.
- Analysis of SCT-Inst processes, settlement mechanisms and reporting processes.
- Identification and clarification of gaps in merchant processes.
- Analysis and documentation of clearing and settlement processes.
- OSPlus process analysis and documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with scheme management as well as various payment service providers and financial institutions on merchant processes.
- Preparation and follow-up as well as active participation in EPI meetings on technical coordination and regulatory topics in payments, including content familiarization and prioritization.
- Preparation and documentation of project and steering committees in the EPI environment.
- Creation of status reports for the subproject.
- Maintenance and structuring of Confluence pages for project documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with the issuing teams on individual customer processes as well as aligning with bank processes and acquirer processes in the Wero environment.
- Communication with payment service providers regarding merchant and bank processes in the Wero environment.
- Organizational support for project management in special tasks in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Digital filing and documentation in Confluence and Microsoft Teams.
- Planning, implementation and tracking of work packages and steps.
- Quality assurance and project control.
- Consulting on IT strategy, IT architecture and interface management in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Technical environment: Jira, Confluence, XML, JSON, MS Office (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint), SharePoint, Draw.io, Innovator, 3rd-level support, ITIL, creation and updating of software documentation, interface management, OSPlus, Scrum, KYC, payment, European Payments Initiative (EPI), Wero, Microsoft Loop, Instant Payments, SCT-Inst.
Eduard Van Kleef
Workshop Leader 'Introduction to AI Development Tools'
Last position:
Workshop Leader 'Introduction to AI Development Tools' at Software company in Wiesbaden
- Presentation introducing generic AI and large language models
- Explanation of legal frameworks (EU AI Act, US CLOUD Act, GDPR)
- Systematic review of AI tools along the SDLC and holistic systems
- Comparison of on-prem LLMs vs. cloud-based, as well as change management and works council
- Facilitated the discussion and derived next steps for introducing AI development tools
Daniel Hilfer
Business Analyst, MiFID II Consultant
Last position:
Business Analyst, MiFID II Consultant at Deutsche Bank AG
- Sub-project manager and business analyst for MiFID II cost transparency
- Creating technical specifications to connect existing applications to a new MiFID II platform
- Modeling new processes in BPMN for business units
- Preparing decision templates for the steering committee
Rudolf Kreis
Business Analyst
Last position:
Business Analyst at Kreis Consulting
- Revision of the fee model (design and testing) in the new XTP software
- Analysis and quality assurance of existing reports for the business area
- Uploading, downloading and analysis of data sets for EMIR (ETD, OTC), MiFIR, SFTR, and MMSR using deltaconX and Abacus TR
- Documentation of daily reports
- Configuration of a new software application for daily reporting
- Analysis of new capital market instruments
- Analysis for implementing market data for gold and silver pricing of coins in the online shop
- Adjustment of existing conditions for pairing and matching in EMIR
- Coordination with counterparties on pairing and matching differences
Michael Simann
Business Analyst & Product Owner
Last position:
Business Analyst & Product Owner at Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG)
- Product Owner for stakeholder management, backlog prioritization and sprint organization (refinements, planning, testing, release) in agile team (8 developers, 2 testers)
- Scaled according to SAFe by introducing sub-teams and leading retrospectives for team development
- Developed central DVAG commission system from batch to near-real-time processing (Kafka) including data migration and structure hierarchy
- Specified functional, technical and quality requirements in close coordination with lead developers
- Modeled complex business processes (BPMN) and interfaces (Kafka, REST, GraphQL)
- Supported authentication (Keycloak), frontend development (Angular) and test automation (CI/CD, CDCT)
- Accompanied cloud migration of microservices to Azure; created workbooks, dashboards and KQL queries for system monitoring
- Analyzed and optimized database systems (CosmosDB, MongoDB, SQL) and reported via Power BI to manage commission competitions
- Applied industry expertise in sales and structured sales model including overseeing financial products to market release
Gio Kevanishvili
Business Analyst – Corporate Actions
Last position:
Business Analyst – Corporate Actions at WM Gruppe
- Collaborated with business specialists to introduce a new IT platform for master data/market data in corporate actions for equities, bonds, and derivatives
- Documented concepts and functionalities in Confluence
- Created user stories in Jira
- Actively participated in daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Acted as proxy product owner for requirements related to complex corporate actions
Sebastian Schorsch
Freelancer / Consultant / Business Analyst
Last position:
Head of Financial Operations Warehouse at PPRO Holding GmbH
- Definition and testing of processing steps in the Financial Data Warehouse
Bertrand Laurent
Business System Analyst - Freelancer
Last position:
Business System Analyst - Freelancer at Deutsche Bank
- Implementation of Dayforce payroll system at DB Portugal
- Preparation of test and production environment with vendor
- Gathering, verification and upload of masterdata
- Management of the testing phase to ensure quality of system
- Lead creation of interface between Workday & Dayforce in collaboration with IT Central team and vendor
- Creation of a new payroll KOP
- Ensure the archiving of data from legacy system
- Act as deputy project manager for topics related to set-up of payroll system and project management (planning, issue log, escalation, vendor management)
- Support the Global Payroll Governance team
- Contact person for SOC 1 audit performed by EY for topics related to HRIS & Payroll ADP & Dayforce payroll systems
- Review and enhancement of global payroll governance KPIs
- Compensation & Benefits consulting during contract negotiations with new vendors
- HRIS consultancy
- Central guidance of local HR team DB France and IT Central team to implement changes in Time & Attendance module in Workday
- HR Operations support transfer of training software from Cornerstone to Workday for DB France
- Labor law
- Business analytics & KPIs
Huib Van Der Bolt
Senior Business Analyst for Customer Data
Last position:
Senior Business Analyst for Customer Data at ING
- Analysis and process design for developing a new name change process
- Analysis of using customer master data in a new document generation system
Silke Daroglou
Requirements Engineer
Last position:
Business Analyst at Rentenservice
Developed a digitalization strategy Analyzed legacy systems and designed a new IT landscape
- Gathered current work structures and processes
- Identified optimization opportunities
- Developed a tool landscape to support business processes
- Created a request for proposal
- Defined epics and user stories
- Modeled processes
Technologies/Methods: Confluence, MSTeams, MindManager, PlantUML, JIRA
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Business Analysts statistics
Typical experience
19 years
Average project duration
2 years
Certifications per freelancer
5
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Most common languages
English, German, French
Bachelor's degree or higher
85%
Master's degree or higher
54%
Doctorate
15%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A Business Analyst defines what the business needs, translates it into structured requirements, and keeps stakeholders aligned during delivery. That can include workshops, process mapping, user stories, acceptance criteria, and support for testing or sign-off. The exact mix depends on whether the project is about a system rollout, process change, or product improvement.
The essentials are analytical thinking, clear documentation, stakeholder management, and the ability to turn vague requests into usable requirements. Strong Business Analysts also understand process design, basic data logic, and how delivery teams work in practice. If the assignment is technical, look for experience with Jira, Confluence, Visio, SQL, or similar tools.
A Business Analyst focuses on understanding the need and shaping the requirements, while a Product Owner usually owns the product backlog and priorities. A Project Manager tracks timelines, resources, and delivery progress. In real projects the roles can overlap, but the BA is usually the person who makes the business logic and scope clear.
Freelance Business Analysts make sense when the need is tied to a specific project, migration, audit, or peak workload. They are also useful when a company needs senior analysis quickly without building a long hiring process. For temporary demand or specialist knowledge, a freelancer is often the more practical choice.
In Frankfurt, Business Analysts are often used in banking, insurance, logistics, and enterprise IT projects. Common work includes system changes, reporting improvements, process harmonisation, and regulatory-driven change. International teams are common, so the role often requires clear English and sometimes German for local stakeholders.
A Business Analyst can do much of the work remotely, especially requirement writing, analysis, and stakeholder follow-up. On-site time is valuable for workshops, discovery sessions, and complex alignment with business users. Many projects work best with a hybrid setup, depending on how much face-to-face input is needed.
Look for examples of how they handled unclear scope, conflicting stakeholders, or changing requirements. Strong Business Analysts produce clean documents, ask sharp questions, and make decisions easier for the team. If they can explain how they reduced rework or improved alignment, that is usually a good sign.
They should understand the project goal, the key stakeholders, the systems involved, and what deliverables are expected. A BA also needs to know how decisions are made, who approves requirements, and whether the role is more business-facing or IT-focused. That context helps them start fast and avoid misunderstandings.
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