Business Analyst – Senior

Nexus Systems Group Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in Toronto is seeking a Business Analyst to define business requirements and support various project teams. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree, 5-7 years of experience, and strong skills in business process mapping and SQL. This role emphasizes analytical and communication skills, with a solid understanding of project management methodologies.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years experience in business analysis or related field.
• Experience in project lifecycle and project management methodologies.
• Familiarity with information technology preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define business requirements for technology operations.
• Identify and analyze malfunctions and system workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project alignment.
• Develop project documentation for various stakeholders.
• Build and execute test cases for business requirement validation.

Skills

Business process modeling

Clear writing skills

Strong communication

SQL proficiency

Facilitation skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PL/SQL

Visio

Word

Excel

Job description

Overview

Document and identify gaps in IT and business processes through process mapping to illustrate current and future state.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree.
• Specialization in Business, Finance, Engineering, Science or Math is desirable.
• 5 to 7 years experience.
• Experience in most facets of project lifecycle; proficient comprehension of project management methodologies; genuine commitment to project environment and discipline.
• Experience in Information Technology preferred.

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to quickly learn organizational structure, business strategies and processes.
• Knowledgeable on business process modeling, process mapping.
• Capable of writing clear and well structured business requirements documents. Contributes to the development of detailed level process maps to facilitate requirements gathering, gap analysis and for training use.
• Ability to resolve minor conflicts/issues using different tactics for prior to escalation.
• Work with team members to understand the needs of the project.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills.

Job description

• Defines business requirements to inform technology build and operations by sourcing and analyzing relevant data, reviewing and documenting business processes and collaborating with business stakeholders.
• Identifies and analyzes malfunctions, system workflow, and troubleshoots issues raised by business.
• 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.
• Builds and executes tests cases in order to validate business requirements and End-User Testing results.
• Needs to have Waterfall knowledge (Agile is a bonus but need Waterfall).
• Previous QA role is a good bonus.
• PL/SQL
• Visio, Word, Excel
• Candidates have experience working with Integration project
• Well versed in SQL and working with large data sets