r/businessanalyst

I’ve been experimenting with AI quite a lot lately, and I feel like most discussions stop at:

“I use ChatGPT to write user stories.”

There has to be so much more than that.

I’m curious how experienced Business Analysts are actually using AI in their day-to-day work.

Not the marketing demos.
Not the “Top 10 prompts” articles.
Your real workflow.

For example:

• 📋 Requirements gathering
• 🎙️ Meeting transcripts & analysis
• 🔍 Asking better questions
• 🧩 Breaking down complex problems
• 📖 Understanding legacy systems
• 🔌 API analysis
• 📊 BPMN/UML/sequence diagrams
• 🧪 Test scenarios
• 📝 Documentation
• 🎯 Stakeholder communication
• 🤝 Sprint planning
• …or something completely unexpected.

Some questions I’d love to hear your thoughts on:

• Which AI tools do you actually use every day?
• What’s the single biggest time saver?
• What’s one workflow that completely changed how you work?
• Have you built your own prompts, templates or knowledge base?
• What have you tried that sounded great but turned out to be useless?
• If you had to teach another BA only three AI workflows, which ones would you choose?

I’ll happily summarize everything that comes out of this discussion into one practical list for everyone.

Let’s steal each other’s best ideas. 🚀

I was just about to start my BA learning plan and read someone’s comment that AI will be heavily involved in the next few years. Should I pursue something else or is the job market still going to be there?

Guys, im currently doing b com. Am in first year of my college and wanted to learn data analytics and establish my career in that field. I am a bit scared tho reading about the job market online and how it is so cooked, and I'm doubting my decision wether I'd be able to land a job in this field or not. I wanted to ask if I'll work hard for the next 6-12 months, making various projects, learning to incorporate ai in my work, working alongside ai, and doing my best, would it, I won't say guarantee, but improve my chances in working as a ba or da. I have little to no knowledge about how to be a ba/da and if there is a demand for these roles nowadays. All the knowledge I had was thru the internet, and it scared me a lot as everyone is saying this field is too saturated and almost finished if you, let's say, don't graduate or get certifications from a well recognised organisations.

Please guide me thru, I have a lot of questions and I'm too lost in the way to focus. It would mean a lot.

hii , i'd love to hear from people who actually work (or have worked) in these positions.

few questions :

1- is working in a bank worth it overall

2- what was your actual entry level salary when u started

3- what benefits do banks offer

4- how's the carrer progression and do u learn a lot or its mostly repetitive tasks

5- most importantly , on the long terms does it help to go abroad

i'd really appreciate help guys , thankss !

I have been working in Meesho as Business Analyst -I. From 3 cycles I have not been promoted and this time my manager has assured me he has made my case. But actually i am not liking my job . I tried switching but I get rejected somehow even I land interview. For one role I reached till hiring manager round and got rejected int hat round. Despite having positive feedback in interview I got rejected. I am very hopeless at this stage of life. I have been working at 2 years at Meesho and I belive I didn't achieve anything 😢😢.

Has anyone resigned without any offer. I feel suffocated in my current job . Can some senior folks please guide me here.

Hi everyone,

I could really use some advice from seniors and experiences BAs.

I recently accepted a position as an IT Business Analyst at an insurance company, where I'll be working on fraud, KYC, and AML digitisation and automation initiatives.

I'm genuinely excited about the opportunity.

For some background, I graduated from university about a year ago (Jan 2025) and started working at an IT consulting firm on a project for a public-sector organisation as a Junior BA. Unfortunately, it's been a difficult first experience. The company went through an acquisition, onboarding and learning opportunities were limited, and I've often felt like I've had to figure things out on my own. On top of that, I found the public-sector environment to be very slow, process-heavy, and extremely bureaucratic.

One of the concerns I raised during my interviews was that I wanted to work in a more agile environment. The insurance company reassured me that, while they still have governance and regulations to follow, projects generally move faster and teams are able to make progress more efficiently (my new director has worked in public institutions before so he knew what I was referring to).

That said, I still feel like a complete beginner. My current role hasn't given me the foundation I hoped for, and over the past year my motivation has taken a hit. I don't want that experience to define me, though. I'm motivated to learn, improve, and do well in this new role. I want to make that boss proud because apparently he rejected other more experienced BAs for me as he enjoyed our discussion and the ideas I was putting on the table (I worked as an AML/KYC agent at a bank during university).

I have about three weeks before I start, and I've been using the time to read books on IT automation, digitisation, and business analysis to build my knowledge before day one.

For those of you with experience as Business Analysts, particularly in insurance, fraud, KYC, AML, or automation: what habits, skills, or resources would you recommend to help me become someone my team can genuinely rely on? I'd love to hear what made the biggest difference in your own career, especially early on.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

I've been a BA for years and the part that gets me isn't the documentation-it's everything around it. Walking into a stakeholder meeting and blanking on what I needed to ask. Losing track of who said what once someone rolls off the project. Drowning in Jira notifications to the point I can't tell what actually needs me today.

Is it just me, or do others feel this too? Curious how you all handle it-and whether anything out there actually helps, or if we're all just surviving on notebooks and memory.

I’m a 24M, I have 2 years of experience working as a Business Analyst. I have done certifications in Excel, badges in SQL, so many seminars and workshops for Business Analysis and yet after searching for a switch for around 1 year I still haven’t found a job.

I can’t even understand what am I doing wrong. I’m the first in corporate world from my family so no one who can guide me.

So asking the Reddit community to please help me, at least help me figure what am I even doing wrong?

I have tried Naukri, Indeed, Apna, Cut short, LinkedIn, Cold emailing, calling Hr’s and what not. Still no response.

Please help me!

I recently joined a BA role in the company I have worked for a few years. I understand the operational side, but I am totally new to BA role. There is no specific training so I started a course on Coursera to understand what I need to do.

There are project ideas given, but I am not sure where I need to start. For example, if there is an improvement to make to a system, I clarify what the gap is and what improvements to make. And then discuss with the developers. Are these starting points?

For these are there common templates used universally in the industry or should I look for in the company?

I would appreciate if there's one place I can gain better understanding. Thank you so much!

I’m trying to decide if my current frustration with being a BA is related to the industry or specifically my team.

I have worked for the same company for 11 years. For my first nine years I worked in Operations/project management. When the exec I worked hand in hand with retired, I reached out to my HR team to ask about new opportunities and that’s how I landed on our software development team as a Business Analyst.

When I moved onto the team, I went to scrum.org to get two certifications so that I would at least understand the framework the team uses. I knew it wouldn’t make me an expert, but it would at least give me the same language and conceptual understanding.

We have a proprietary software system that is always in a constant state of improvement. My specific responsibility revolves around our “maintenance ” requests. These are requests to address specific, small improvements across the platform. I work with our Subject Matter Experts to gather requirements, build out user stories and acceptance criteria, consult with design /other teams, obtain time and complexity estimates, and come up with testing criteria so that I can add tasks to sprint planning. I work from home, and honestly on paper this is a great job!

But I find I’m constantly forgotten. I’m left off calls, deliberately, that directly impact my work. Hardly any of my maintenance requests move from Sprint Planning to an actual sprint. I recently pushed back on being left off calls and I was told it’s not appropriate to invite me to the calls (where we’re discussing a task I am literally managing) because “I don’t understand the whole scope of work.” … which yeah, when I’m constantly excluded I don’t know the full scope.

Is this typical for a BA role? I approached HR for some help with this situation and was just told my role is vital and everyone thinks I’m doing a great job :/ I went from managing a team of 12 to feeling like I’m always in the shadows.

I think I’m also feeling some imposter syndrome, and that’s really holding me back from looking for a similar role somewhere else. I really do like the work! I’m just not sure the 2 to 3 years I’ve been in this role now would really give me the experience another company would see and value. My greatest fear is accepting a role and stepping into it and being very clueless about what’s needed.

We’re hiring an Associate Business Analyst at V L & Co., a consulting firm working with NBFCs and technology-driven businesses.
This is a full-time, work-from-office role based in Vikhroli, Mumbai, with immediate joining preferred.
**What you’ll work on:**
NBFC and Technology Consulting engagements
Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
Process Transformation and Operational Excellence initiatives
SOP documentation across Credit, Risk, Operations, Finance, and Collections
Governance Frameworks and Control Checklists
MIS Reporting, Analytics, and Dashboarding (Excel)
AI-assisted research, documentation, and workflow automation
**Who we’re looking for:**
CA, MBA, MBA (Finance), or Engineering graduates
1–2 years of experience in Business Analysis, Consulting, Operations, Analytics, Finance, Risk, Compliance, or Technology
Strong Excel, analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills
Familiarity with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, AI research tools, prompt engineering, and workflow automation is a plus
Strong communication skills and attention to detail
**What you’ll gain:**
Direct exposure to consulting projects and client engagements
Experience in governance, risk, compliance, and business transformation
Mentorship from experienced professionals
Significant ownership and learning opportunities from day one
Location: Vikhroli, Mumbai (Work From Office)
Interested candidates can email their resume and current availability to:
[siddhesh.gupta@vlconsultants.in](mailto:siddhesh.gupta@vlconsultants.in)
Happy to answer questions in the comments or via DM.

I'm currently residing here in the PH with almost 4 years of experience in different roles in the IT industry. I resigned and have been unemployed for a couple of months right now and yeah , savings are 📉.

I know myself that there's a lot of room for improvement on my end as a BA , for a reason that even though I performed well on my last project and last company, those couple of months of experience are not enough.

Now, I have received an offer of 66.0% of my previous base salary. Checking with the current market demand and the scope of the role, I'm thinking it should be a 98-130% increase from my previous base salary.

I know I badly need a job right now. I do have 2 more technical interviews this week and next week, but this Company A wants me to sign by the end of this week.

My question now is, is it fine to ask if they're open to an increase in the base pay, or should I be thankful and take it as an experience and job change after a couple of years?

I recently transitioned from AV/IT support-Engineering to Business analyst role (and app support) at a medical center. Why does it feel like I’m re learning everything at times, and other times I can hit the ground running in work I’m doing in this role?

I planned to do my masters in MSc. Business Analysis last year. For that i learned SQL, Tableau, Power Bi, Gen Ai and currently learning python. i need advise in what should i do further before joining the course and while studying MSc BA

Thank You :)