Business Systems Analyst

Apex Systems; Canada; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global IT services provider is seeking a Senior BSA specialized in asset management for a 12-month contract in Downtown Toronto. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in investment management, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in Agile methodologies. This role involves working closely with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements, ensuring that solutions effectively address business needs.

Qualifications

• Experience in capital markets or investment operations is preferred.
• Expert in writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a subject matter expert for stakeholders.
• Facilitates discussions to elicit and manage business requirements.
• Collaborates with product owner on product backlog.

Skills

Independent work skills

Agile methodologies

Clear communication

Data analysis

Business strategy assessment

Education

5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

Senior BSA - Asset Management, Digital

Apex Systems is a global IT services provider and our staffing practice has an opening for a Senior BSA (Asset Management, Digital) with domain experience in Investment Management – ideally mutual funds and/or ETFs, experience gathering requirements and creating user stories, and experience with process and data mapping to place at our client, a top Financial Institution.

Terms

12-month contract (strong possibility for extension)

Location

Downtown Toronto (currently 2 days onsite work required, Tuesdays and Thursdays)

Application Process

It is best to apply via the medium on which you are seeing this posting. If you encounter technical difficulties submitting your resume, please send your resume in Word format to Diana Baraky at [e-mail] and reference Senior BSA - Asset Management, Digital

Responsibilities

• Acts as the prime subject matter expert for internal/external stakeholders.
• Facilitates discussions and follows a disciplined approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate, and manage business requirements with stakeholders; applies a variety of elicitation techniques to probe, challenge, and understand requirements.
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Collaborates with various stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities, to facilitate the organization's goals by understanding business vision, objectives, and key performance indicators.
• Acts as a consultant to business partners in collaboration with the project team in strategy and planning sessions (e.g., annual and multi-year plans), reviews, or inspections to ensure the quality of work products.
• Aligns technology requirements and solutions to a real business need, meets essential quality standards, and ensures approval by all relevant stakeholders.
• Assesses the quality of supporting documentation, including solution architecture documents, technical design documents, test strategy document documents, to ensure proper analysis supports, recommendations or demonstrate continued alignment to strategic objectives.
• Collaborates closely with product owner to refine and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring user stories and acceptance criteria accurately reflect business objectives.
• Works closely with members of the agile squad, business, and technology teams throughout the software development life cycle to ensure solutions align with business needs and participates in system testing, UAT and validation of new features or enhancements.

Key Qualifications

• Experience, preferably within capital markets, wealth management, asset management or investment operations.
• 5+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst/Business IT Consultant.
• Experience with secure site design and multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an asset.
• Expert: Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Expert: Agile methodologies and tools (Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint).
• Expert: Ability to write clear and concise user stories, acceptance criteria and process flows.
• Expert: Ability to analyze complex data and provide actionable insight to help drive business decisions
• Expert: Business strategy and assessments (i.e., feasibility studies, business cases and/or cost/benefit, project sizing and costing, and current state analysis/needs assessments).
• Expert: Highly effective communicator. Excellent listening and communication skills, with proficiency in English (French is a bonus).
• Expert: Collaboration & teamwork skills with a focus on cross-group collaboration.

Soft Skills

• Ownership mindset, strong analytical capabilities, and a passion for problem-solving and adapting to change.
• Demonstrates transparency and willingness to share knowledge and best practices.
• Displays acumen with technical concepts and business/industry knowledge with a strong desire for continuous learning.
• Can-do attitude. Persists in driving towards the end goal by self and leading the team.
• Awareness of critical path amidst changing priorities.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage ambiguity and tight deadlines.
• Willingness to ask questions, challenge the process and seek out answers.
• Ability to assimilate lots of detailed information effectively.
• Excellent time management, organizational and prioritization skills.
• Works independently with great resourcefulness and little guidance and can work with ambiguity.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting and Banking