Business Analyst - Level 4-Daily

TalentBurst, Inc.; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a Business Analyst - Level 4 in Montreal, QC. This role involves gathering Finance requirements, coordinating with IT developers, and ensuring quality delivery of solutions within the Finance domain. Candidates should have 5-10 years of experience, strong accounting skills, and a solid understanding of both Finance and IT functions in a CIB environment. This position offers a hybrid work model, combining in-office and remote work.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Experience in working with back office systems.
• Extensive user interaction and IT system experience.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from Finance teams.
• Ensure IT developments align with specifications.
• Conduct integration and User Acceptance Testing.

Skills

Strong accounting skills

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Strong organizational skills

Good documentation skills

Education

Qualified accountant or relevant professional qualification

Tools

Calypso

Murex

Axiom

Job description

Business Analyst - Level 4-Daily
Duration: 6 month(s)
Location: Montreal QC Hybrid

Description/Comment: The work will consist of gathering requirements from Finance teams, design and build solutions in LAP and SRS for accounting and risk reporting. The role includes coordination with IT developers to ensure specifications are translated in IT programming and with FCOO/Finance stakeholders for the testing phases and transition to production.
The need is to:
- Secure the delivery plan of Finance Group sponsored initiatives by end of 2025 in the context of MAIA program as new requirements from GBA related to RWA calculation/reporting in SRS at group level have been prioritized recently.
o NAR Syndication (Nov release)
o SRS Argentina MAIA program (Nov release)
o LAP Balance Sheet by metier Phase 2 (Nov release)
o NR96/NDOD evolution (to be planned)
o resolve operating systems feed related issues (Front-to-finance datahub, GFM, Atlas2) in LAP impacting RWA calculations.
o Reduce number of manual adjustments posted by Finance.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Main responsibilities will include:

• Analyzing user requirements and business processes,
• Liaising with users and internal counterparts from Finance, IT and Operations in NY, Montreal, London, Paris and Mumbai,
• Providing users with Subject Matter expertise for finance processes and systems,
• Liaising with end-users for requirements gathering, UAT and migration testing up to successful delivery of the expected solution,
• Developing functional specifications for delivery to IT,
• Ensuring IT developments are in line with the functional specifications,
• Performing integration testing and User Acceptance Testing,
• Ensuring on-time quality delivery of all activities assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

TRAINING AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience as a Finance professional with good working knowledge of CIB's core businesses, in particular a good knowledge of the financial systems

• A good understanding of the finance an IT functions in the context of a CIB Bank,
• A solid background (5 to 10 years of experience) in a role of Business Analyst
• Extensive experience in working with users and their interaction with IT and systems
• Experience of working with back office systems in terms of accounting and profit and loss flows such as Calypso, Murex, OMR, UBIX ...
• Experience of accountancy systems (3rd party or in-house)
• Experience of regulatory reporting systems such as offerings from Axiom, WKFS, Lombard Risk...
• Knowledge of RDJ or other accounting interpretation engines

ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

• Qualified accountant or other relevant professional qualification.
• PRINCE2 qualified or other is a benefit but not essential

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS

• Good understanding of the products traded by an Investment Bank : Foreign Exchange, Interest Rates derivatives, securities, Repos, Credit derivatives ...
• Strong accounting skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Proven organizational skills with excellent multi-tasking and prioritization skills
• Good systems skills, good understanding of IT databases (although programming skills are not required)
• Good documentation skills
• Ability to work independently
• Commitment to project deadlines, sense of drive and urgency
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to communicate and relate easily with IT, Finance and back office users.