Business Analyst/Delivery Lead

Nexus Systems Group Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services consultancy in Toronto is seeking an experienced delivery lead with over 10 years in wealth management. The role involves conducting analysis on business and technical requirements, facilitating stakeholder sessions, and supporting project teams. Strong SDLC experience is essential, alongside leadership capabilities to ensure project delivery within time and budget constraints.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a delivery lead in wealth management or finance systems.
• Ability to work with technology and business stakeholders.
• Experience with requirements gathering and data mapping activities.
• Comfortable using Microsoft Project for maintaining schedules.
• Strong SDLC experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis on business and technical requirements.
• Facilitate sessions to gather requirements and create user stories.
• Document requirements and work with the Product Owner.
• Support project teams during design, development, and testing.
• Develop coherent project documents for stakeholders.

Skills

Delivery lead experience in wealth management

Working with technology stakeholders

Requirements gathering and analysis

Using Microsoft Project

Leading teams

Root cause analysis with QA

Experience in large transformation programs

SDLC experience in waterfall and agile

Job description

Role Responsibilities

Role Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):

• Perform analysis on business and technical requirements provided.
• Facilitate the session(s) to gather all requirements/create the user stories.
• Document confirmed requirements/work with Product Owner on User Stories.
• Provide clarifications and support to project team during design, development and testing phases
• Understands Software Development Life Cycle and can effectively perform BA tasks for each of the project phases.
• Elicits requirements and analyzes feasibility to ensure solutions/initiatives achieve the expected business outcomes.
• Supports various project teams across the project lifecycle to ensure development is aligned with the business requirements.
• Develops informative, coherent, and usable project documents (project artifacts) for multiple stakeholders covering functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Applies depth of domain & functional expertise for the assigned portfolio to drive the expected business value.
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Become SME and provide support during various phases of Testing and Post-Production validation.
• Provides specialized consulting, analytical and technical support.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Must-Have Skills

• 10+ years of experience as a delivery lead in wealth management or finance systems (e.g. GL conversions)
• Ability to work with technology stakeholders (Solution Architects, Developers, QA) and business stakeholders
• Experience with requirements gathering, analysis and data mapping activities.
• Comfortable using Microsoft Project for maintaining project schedules. Experience with managing monthly forecasting
• Experience in leading teams and ensuring project delivery is on time, within budget and high quality
• Experience working with QA on root cause analysis, triaging and creating testing metrics.
• Experience working on large transformation programs and conversion projects
• Strong SDLC experience in waterfall and agile methodologies

Nice to Have Skills

• Previous Data Analyst/