Full-Time

Business Analyst Lead

Posted on 9/8/2026

Supernova Technology

Supernova Technology

51-200 employees

Cloud-based platform for securities-based lending

Compensation Overview

$118k/yr

Chicago, IL, USA

Hybrid

One day per week may be telecommuted from a home office in the Chicago metropolitan area. Relocation assistance is not provided.

Bachelor's

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Quality Assurance (QA)
Canva
Data Analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides

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Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in data science, finance, project management, or a related field.
  • Three years of experience as a business analyst within the fintech or financial services sector.
  • Three years of experience engaging in data analytics.
  • Three years of experience engaging in project management.
  • Three years of experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Three years of experience utilizing Centralized Configuration Center, Data Mart, Data Manager, Enterprise Data Package, Adobe, and Canva.
  • Three years of experience preparing solution packages to help onboard new enterprise clients or enable critical new product modules for existing clients.
Responsibilities
  • Lead business and system analysis and requirements gathering for various projects.
  • Drive conclusions with key project stakeholders and finalize solutions for complicated business requests.
  • Administer requirement documentation, organize requirement review meetings, and present detailed requirements to internal and external groups.
  • Address customization requests by building new or enhanced features with the product development team.
  • Assist junior business analysts with requirements gathering.
  • Perform system configuration.
  • Master configuration tools including Centralized Configuration Center, Data Mart, Data Manager, and Enterprise Data Package.
  • Participate in improving the configuration process and the usability of configuration tools.
  • Troubleshoot and fix configuration issues.
  • Review and sign off on configurations for various projects.
  • Oversee the testing process for assigned accounts to ensure high-quality product delivery.
  • Oversee test status for key projects and provide updates.
  • Work with internal product and quality assurance teams to conduct test planning.
  • Identify key testing scenarios, coordinate testing execution, and address testing issues.
  • Monitor project and junior business analyst performance.
  • Lead product release note collaboration efforts.

Supernova Technology provides cloud-based, digital wealth management lending software for securities-based lending. It serves banks, broker-dealers, and RIAs, enabling advisors to offer liquidity solutions by using clients’ investment portfolios as collateral. The platform is fully automated and digitized, supporting all-electronic origination and scalable to millions of clients, while also connecting institutions with funding partners and offering advisory education. Unlike fragmented workflows, Supernova combines an end-to-end fintech platform, risk and liquidity management, and coaching services in one solution, helping financial professionals streamline lending, reduce cycle times, and improve the client experience. Its goal is to empower advisors to grow their securities-based lending business and overall financial wellness for clients through scalable, cloud-based technology.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$26.5M

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The August 2026 website claims 200,000 platform users and under 10-minute workflows.
  • Old National and SEI partnerships validate demand from banks and advisor platforms.
  • Prism and Aperture broaden revenue beyond core SBLOC origination into AI and risk software.

What critics are saying

  • Banks like Wintrust and TD Wealth can pressure pricing through in-house builds.
  • Supernova last raised capital in 2021, limiting war-chest against larger fintech rivals.
  • A single failed UK rollout or major integration loss would damage credibility fast.

What makes Supernova Technology unique

  • Supernova serves 50+ institutions with end-to-end SBLOC automation, not point tools.
  • Its 2026 UK Lombard launch extends the same workflow into new markets.
  • Aperture unifies multi-asset collateral management across loans, pricing, and covenants.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401(k) Retirement Plan

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Commuter Benefits

Pet Insurance

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

-1%
PR Newswire
Jan 23rd, 2024
Supernova Technology Announces Launch Of Its Ai-Powered Document Assistant And Data Extraction Solution

With Prism, Supernova's AI-powered document assistant and data extraction solution, critical data is extracted from PDFs in minutes with over 95% accuracyCHICAGO, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Supernova Technology, a wealth lending technology company, announced the launch of its generative AI-powered document assistant and data extraction solution, Prism.With Prism, users can upload supported financial documents from across the industry and parse critical data at the click of a button, empowering businesses to make faster decisions and reduce errors."Now more than ever, decision makers want immediate access to data, in formats they can use," said Supernova CEO Tao Huang. "Too much critical data is hidden in unmanageable PDFs. We're excited to launch Prism and offer a simple, high-fidelity solution that eliminates error-prone, manual data entry."Unlike standard document-reading solutions that rely on optical character recognition (OCR) alone, Prism leverages Supernova's proprietary large language models in combination with OCR to easily identify, organize, and extract relevant data. Prism's models are proactively trained to recognize the information that matters and privately hosted to ensure data integrity and client data confidentiality.To learn more about Prism, visit www.supernovacompanies.com/solutions/prism.About Supernova TechnologySupernova Technology, a financial technology company based in Chicago, has built an industry-leading, fully configurable, end-to-end software solution to automate securities-based lending from origination through the life of the loan. The company empowers banks, wealth management firms, and financial advisors with education and software to deliver a low-interest rate liquidity solution to a broad segment of their clients

Nasdaq
Oct 4th, 2023
Financial Sector Update for 10/04/2023: ONB, UBS, C, UPST

In corporate news, Old National Bancorp ( ONB ) has partnered with Supernova Technology to provide lending products to clients.

PR Newswire
Jun 28th, 2022
Supernova Technology™ Expands Product Offering And Launches Enterprise Collateral Management Product, Aperture™ To Empower Credit And Risk Professionals

Monitor, analyze, report, and mitigate risk across your lending business all in one place with Aperture Enterprise Collateral Management Solution. CHICAGO , June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Supernova Technology, a technology leader in securities-based lending (SBL) is expanding their product offering outside of SBL with the addition of Aperture – an Enterprise Collateral Management Solution. Aperture was built to give credit and risk professionals a new level of control and efficiency giving them oversight of their loan book in one place

SEI
Feb 3rd, 2022
SEI partnered with Supernovacompanies on Feb 3rd 22'.

SEI® (NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced a strategic partnership with Supernova Technology™ (Supernova), adding Nationwide Smart Credit SM to the nearly 50 technology integrations and strategic partnerships available to independent advisors through the SEI Wealth Platform SM.