CV example
Business analyst CV example
Business analysts sit between the business and the people who build solutions. This example shows a BA who proves it with process savings, clear requirements and projects that shipped because the analysis was right.
Below you'll find a full example CV (also called a résumé), summaries for different experience levels, the skills and keywords employers search for, stronger bullet points, and the interview questions to prepare for.
Business analyst CV summary examples
Your summary is the first thing a recruiter reads. Two or three sentences: who you are, your strongest evidence, and what you want next. Here is the example CV's summary, plus versions for other levels.
Example CV
Business analyst with 5 years in banking and insurance. I map processes, turn messy needs into clear requirements, and work with developers and testers until the solution does what the business needs.
Entry level
Graduate with a background in operations support who has documented processes and gathered requirements for two internal tools. Strong in Excel and SQL, and working towards the ECBA.
Senior
Senior business analyst with 10 years leading analysis on core banking and ERP programmes. Built the BA practice’s templates and standards and mentor a team of 6 analysts.
Skills to put on a business analyst CV
Hard skills
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Process mapping (BPMN, flowcharts)
- User stories and acceptance criteria
- Gap and impact analysis
- Data analysis with Excel or SQL
- User acceptance testing (UAT)
- Agile and Waterfall delivery
Soft skills
- Asking good questions
- Facilitating workshops
- Clear writing
- Managing conflicting stakeholder needs
Show soft skills through your bullet points rather than listing them on the CV itself.
Keywords recruiters and ATS look for
Many employers screen CVs with an applicant tracking system (ATS) that matches words from the job ad. These come up often in business analyst postings. Use the ones that are true for you, in the same wording as the job you're applying for. To compare your CV with a specific job ad, use the free CV keyword checker, or have Litjob tailor your CV to the job description for you.
- business analyst
- requirements gathering
- business requirements
- user stories
- process improvement
- process mapping
- stakeholder management
- UAT
- gap analysis
- SQL
- agile
- documentation
Bullet points: before and after
Strong bullet points say what you did, how big it was and what changed. Compare:
WeakGathered requirements from stakeholders.
StrongerRan 12 workshops with finance and operations to define requirements for a new billing system.
WeakImproved business processes.
StrongerRedesigned the supplier payment process, saving 20 staff hours a week.
WeakWrote documentation.
StrongerWrote 140 user stories with acceptance criteria that guided a 6-developer team through 8 sprints.
WeakDid testing.
StrongerLed UAT with 30 users, catching 2 critical issues that would have stopped go-live.
Only use numbers you can explain in an interview. An honest estimate (“about 30%”) is better than a made-up exact figure.
Tips for writing a business analyst CV
Quantify the process, before and after
Time, steps, errors or cost removed are the clearest proof of a BA’s value.
Name the systems and domain
Core banking, ERP, CRM or claims: domain knowledge is often the deciding factor in BA hiring.
Show the full cycle
Include discovery, requirements, testing and adoption, so employers see you stay until the solution works.
Mention technical depth honestly
SQL, data modelling or API basics help a lot, but only list what you could use in a test.
Common business analyst interview questions
Your CV gets you the interview, and interviewers will ask about what's on it. Prepare for these:
- How do you handle stakeholders who want conflicting things?
- Describe bringing them together, tying needs to business goals and agreeing priorities.
- Walk me through how you would gather requirements for a new system.
- Cover stakeholders, current-state analysis, workshops, documentation and sign-off.
- What is the difference between a business and a functional requirement?
- Business: what the organisation needs. Functional: what the system must do to support it.
- Tell me about a time your analysis changed a project’s direction.
- Choose a real example with a clear before and after.