Business System Analyst

ISG Search Inc; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ISG Search Inc. in Toronto, Canada is seeking a Business System Analyst for a 6-month hybrid contract. The role focuses on Capital Markets with hands-on analysis of requirements, legacy code review, and collaboration with quant and development teams.

The candidate should have 3-5 years in business systems analysis, strong documentation and communication skills, and familiarity with Agile environments. Experience with AWS-hosted apps is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years as a Business Systems Analyst.
• Asset Management or Capital Markets experience required.
• Strong documentation and communication skills; Agile familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and document business and system requirements; define functional and non functional specifications with stakeholders.
• Analyse legacy codebases (C#, PowerShell, batch scripts, Python, quant libraries, R) to uncover business rules and data flows.
• Decompose technical implementations into functional processes and business capabilities.
• Derive technical specs like API contracts.
• Support system integration, testing and validation including parity validation between legacy and new logic.
• Translate business processes into technical workflows for the target state.
• Collaborate with development and quant teams to ensure accurate implementation.
• Use AI tools to accelerate code analysis and draft specifications and artefacts.

Skills

Documentation

Communication

Agile methodologies

Capital Markets experience

Stakeholder management

Experience: 3-5 years

AWS exposure

Tools

AWS

Job description

Business System Analyst (BBBH12277) Toronto, Canada

Business System Analyst

6-month contract, hybrid, downtown Toronto

We're working with a client in Toronto seeking an experienced Business System Analyst with strong Capital Markets experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and document business and system requirements; define functional and non functional specifications with stakeholders
• Analyse legacy codebases (C#, PowerShell, batch scripts, Python, quant libraries, R) to uncover business rules and decision logic, data transformations and workflows, and integration patterns and dependencies
• Decompose technical implementations into functional processes, business capabilities, and user/system interactions
• Derive technical specs like api contracts
• Support system integration, testing and validation — including quant output-parity validation between legacy and re-platformed logic
• Translate business processes into technical workflows for the target state
• Collaborate with development and quant teams to ensure accurate implementation
• Use AI tools to accelerate code analysis and to draft specifications and requirement artefacts

Required skills & experience

• 3-5 years as a Business Systems Analyst
• Mandatory Asset Management or Capital Markets experience
• Strong documentation and communication skills; Agile familiarity

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS-hosted applications. isgSearch does not use artificial intelligence throughout the hiring process.