Redwood Trust, Inc

Business Analyst

Redwood Trust, Inc$130K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 4+ years as a Business Analyst or Salesforce Business Systems Analyst, ideally in financial services or fintech.
  • Working knowledge of the loan origination and fulfillment lifecycle.
  • Hands-on Salesforce experience with the ability to read and understand configurations.
  • Strong requirements craft: user stories, acceptance criteria, process mapping, and UAT.
  • Clear communication skills to translate between business and engineering.
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools for analysis and documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate requirement-gathering sessions to capture underlying business needs.
  • Document functional requirements and assess potential downstream impacts.
  • Research regulations and systems; convert findings into product requirements.
  • Author clear, testable user stories based on prioritized initiatives.
  • Maintain a refined backlog ready for upcoming sprints, defining acceptance criteria beforehand.
  • Map workflows across the loan origination and fulfillment lifecycle.
  • Build and execute test scenarios for user acceptance testing.

Benefits

  • Discretionary corporate bonus program.
  • Multiple health plans available.
  • Short-term and long-term disability options.
  • Company-sponsored life insurance.
  • Fitness reimbursement program.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Paid time off and volunteer time.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
  • 401K matching program.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

The Business Analyst is the execution partner for CoreVest's lending technology platforms across origination, underwriting, pricing, and servicing. The Business Analyst owns the detail - translating prioritized initiatives into precise, buildable requirements, well-formed user stories with testable acceptance criteria, and the analysis, documentation, and user acceptance testing that keep delivery moving. This role partners closely with Business Leadership, Sales, Capital Markets, Marketing, Design, Engineering, and Data to translate strategy into scalable, extensible product capabilities that improve speed-to-yes, operational efficiency, and borrower/broker experience.

Responsibilities & Duties
  • Facilitate discovery and requirement-gathering sessions; distinguish surface-level requests from underlying business needs.
  • Document complete functional requirements and ensure no negative downstream impacts.
  • Perform research and analysis on regulations, systems, and business needs; translate findings into actionable product requirements.

User Stories & Backlog Support:
  • Author clear, independent, testable user stories from the Business and Tehnology prioritized initiatives.
  • Keep the backlog refined and "ready" ahead of sprint planning, with acceptance criteria defined before development.

Process & Data Analysis
  • Map current- and future-state workflows across the loan origination and fulfillment lifecycle.
  • Analyze data and Salesforce configuration so requirements are grounded in how the system actually behaves.

UAT & Sign-off Support
  • Build and run test scenarios; organize and facilitate user acceptance testing.
  • Capture defects and feedback; support the Business accept/reject decisions against acceptance criteria.

Documentation & Stakeholder Coordination
  • Maintain requirements, process documentation, and release/change notes that Operations and Compliance can rely on.
  • Liaise across Sales, Operations, Capital Markets, and Engineering to gather input and keep stakeholders aligned on what is coming and why.

AI-Native Delivery
  • Use AI to draft first-pass requirements and user stories, summarize discovery sessions, generate test scenarios, analyze data, and accelerate documentation.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
  • 4+ years as a Business Analyst or Salesforce Business Systems Analyst, ideally in financial services or fintech.
  • Working knowledge of the loan origination and fulfillment lifecycle.
  • Hands-on Salesforce experience - able to read and understand configuration (objects, flows, validation rules, sharing) well enough to write grounded requirements; SFDC Admin/BSA experience strongly preferred. • Strong requirements craft: user stories, acceptance criteria, process mapping, and UAT.
  • Clear written and verbal communication; able to translate between business and engineering.
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.

Preferred Experience
  • Familiarity with lending products such as DSCR, bridge, fix-and-flip, and build-for-rent.
  • Exposure to Loan Origination Systems (LOS), pricing engines, or underwriting engines.
  • Understanding of API-driven integrations and how data moves between systems.
  • Experience in high-growth, regulated lending environments.

What Success Looks Like
  • Stories arrive at sprint planning ready and unambiguous; rework from unclear requirements is rare.
  • The Business Product Owner spends time on priorities and outcomes, not chasing requirement detail.
  • User acceptance testing is organized, traceable, and tied to acceptance criteria.
  • AI is visibly part of how the Business Analyst produces faster, higher-quality analysis.

A reasonable estimate of the total compensation range for this role is $130,000.00 to $160,000.00. The actual salary offer to the successful candidate will be based on job-related education, geographic location, training, licensure and certification, and other factors. CoreVest also offers a competitive benefit package including discretionary corporate bonus program, multiple health plans, STD and LTD options, company sponsored life insurance, fitness reimbursement, paid parental leave, time to volunteer, Paid Time off, ESPP, and 401K matching.

About Redwood Trust, Inc

Redwood Trust, Inc. operates as a specialty finance company in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Investment Portfolio and Residential Mortgage Banking. The Investment Portfolio segment offers a portfolio of investments in residential mortgage-backed securities retained from Sequoia securitizations, as well as issued by third parties and other credit risk-related investments; and invests directly in residential mortgage loans. The Residential Mortgage Banking segment operates a mortgage loan conduit that acquires residential loans from third-party originators for subsequent sale, securitization, or transfer to its investment portfolio. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes. Redwood Trust, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Mill Valley, California.
Learn more about Redwood Trust, Inc
Size
298 employees
Market Cap
$794.6 million
Industry
Net Income
-$581.8 million
5 Year Trend
+18.5%
Revenue
$571.9 million
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