Business Analyst – IT – Advanced

Finance Professionals Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto is seeking an Advanced Business Analyst to lead requirement phases. The successful candidate will have 8-10 years of BA experience in Agile, strong communication skills, and the ability to analyze complex data. This role includes managing project documentation and ensuring successful project delivery while working closely with business and IT stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8-10 years professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment.
• Comfortable analyzing payloads (JSON/XML) mapping data elements to requirements.
• Solid understanding of system integration concepts and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Assess, research, analyze and document sponsor/stakeholder needs.
• Manage project documentation and resolve emerging issues.
• Contribute to successful project completion within budget.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Agile methodology

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Visio

Excel

Job description

Our client a leading financial institution inDowntown Torontois looking for aBusiness Analyst – IT – Advanced to lead detailed requirement phases by identifying, tracking, escalating and/or resolving business systems issues. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

• Assess, research, analyze and document sponsor/stakeholder needs in accordance with the Project Life Cycle utilizing reporting tools, and requirements.
• Identify, track and resolve business systems issues
• Create or lead the development of detailed level process maps to facilitate requirements gathering, gap analysis and for training use
• Manage project documentation (implementation plan, issues log, process maps, reports, FTE analysis, etc.) and resolves emerging issues at the implementation stage of the project
• Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies
• Seeks input from the business by facilitating sessions
• Develop strategic training plan associated with introduction of new/ enhanced the businessprocesses
• Provide assistance with business user testing, when required
• Develop and maintain strong relationship with business partners and internal/external team members
• Provide consulting services to business partners on new initiatives
• Identify issues and escalates/manages resolution as required

Must-Have Skills:

• Minimum 8-10 years professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment. Expert at requirements gathering, documentation, testing and developing high level plans.
• Proven experience in Agile methodology
• Proven ability to gather Business and Systems requirements independently, having strong business analysis and systems analysis skills.
• Solid understanding of system integration concepts and APIs
• Comfortable analyzing payloads (JSON/XML) mapping data elements to requirements
• Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
• Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders; Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15–20 or more).
• Excellent collaboration skills, attention to detail, gap analysis, and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time. Experience working on medium to large projects – over $2 million.
• Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modeling tools (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• CBAP
• Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis
• Prior experience in enterprise level and mobile projects
• Past testing experience in API’;s using Postman.
• Knowledge of current Accessibility standards

Soft Skills Required:

• Ability to quickly learn organizational structure, business strategies and processes
• Lead discussions on detailed requirement phases identifying, tracking, escalating and/or resolving business systems issues
• Write clear and well-structured business requirements documents
• Advanced ability to resolve minor conflicts/issues using different tactics for prior to escalation
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced facilitation and presentation skills
• Good organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple concurrent activities and to work successfully under pressure

Education:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree. Specialization in Business, Finance, Engineering, Math or Sciences is desirable
• Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.