Business Systems Analyst – AI, Data & Risk Compliance

Equality Street Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Equality Street Inc. in Toronto seeks a highly adaptable Business Systems Analyst to bridge business stakeholders, data engineers, AI specialists, and software developers on an internal project repository that consolidates enterprise project data for advanced progress reporting, risk analysis, and AI-enabled automation.

You will lead elicitation, design UAT strategies, governance for regulatory program management, and deliver dashboards with KPIs while ensuring traceability from regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or capital markets environments.
• Strong knowledge of financial risk analysis and regulatory reporting standards (OSFI, AML/KYC or internal GRC).
• Ability to specify functional requirements for data consolidation, AI and ML use cases.
• Experience defining reports and data structures in enterprise platforms.
• Solid SQL skills to query databases and validate data lineage.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and translate complex business needs into functional specs and user stories.
• Partner with technical teams to triage questions and maintain build velocity.
• Lead end-to-end UAT design, execution, and defect resolution.
• Document decision logic, data governance rules and reporting workflows.
• Define dashboard specifications, KPIs, and drill-down analytics.
• Ensure traceability from regulator standards through production tests.

Skills

SQL

Risk analysis

Regulatory reporting

Data consolidation

PMO governance

Tools

RSA Archer

Jira/Confluence

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Business Systems Analyst – AI, Data & Risk Compliance

Location:DowntownToronto(Hybrid:4days/weekOnsite)

Term:1-YearContract(ImmediateStart)

PositionOverview

AleadingfinancialinstitutionindowntownTorontoisseekingahighlyadaptable,proactiveBusinessSystemsAnalysttostepintoanactiveprojectteamwithimmediateimpact.Inthis"SwissArmyKnife"role,youwillbridgethegapbetweenbusinessstakeholders,dataengineers,AIspecialists,andsoftwaredevelopers.Youwilldrivethedevelopmentofaninternalprojectrepositorydesignedtoconsolidateenterpriseprojectdataforadvancedprogressreporting,riskanalysis,andAI-enabledautomation.

KeyResponsibilities

• Elicitation&TechnicalDelivery:Facilitateworkshopstoelicit,analyze,andtranslatecomplexfinancialbusinessneedsintofunctionalspecifications,technicaluserstories,processflows,BRDs,anddatamodelsforAIanddevelopmentteams.
  
• DevelopmentPartnering:Actasthedailysubjectmatterexpertfortechnicalteams;triagedevelopmentquestions,clarifyrules,andresolvescopequeriestomaintainrapidbuildvelocity.
  
• UATLeadership&QualityAssurance:Design,coordinate,andexecuteend-to-endUserAcceptanceTesting(UAT).Defineteststrategy,buildacceptancecriteria,facilitatestakeholderwalkthroughs,andmanagedefectresolutionthroughdelivery.
  
• Risk&RegulatoryCompliance:Documentcomplexbusinessdecisionlogic,datagovernancerules,andreportingworkflowstosupportAIusecasesandautomatedRegulatoryProgramManagementOffice(RPMO)compliancereporting(e.g.,OSFIguidelines,operationalriskcontrols).
  
• Dashboards&VisualAnalytics:Definedetailedspecificationsforoperationaldashboards—includingKPIs,metriclogic,riskindicators,calculations,security/accessfilters,anddrill-downanalytics.
  
• Traceability&Governance:Managechangecontrolprocessesandmaintainstrictend-to-endrequirementtraceabilityfromregulatorystandardsthroughtechnicalarchitectureandproductiontesting.
  

Requirements

Requirements&Experience

• Banking&FinancialSectorExperience:Minimum5+yearsasaBusinessSystemsAnalystwithinbanking,financialservices,orcapitalmarketsenvironments.
  
• RiskManagement&RegulatoryExpertise:Strongworkingknowledgeoffinancialriskanalysisframeworks,PMOgovernance,andregulatoryreportingstandards(OSFI,AML/KYCconcepts,orinternalGRCframeworks).
  
• AI&DataSolutions:Demonstratedexperiencespecifyingfunctionalrequirementsfordataconsolidationprojects,machinelearningmodels,naturallanguageprocessing(NLP),orpredictiveriskalgorithms.
  
• Reporting&AnalyticsTooling:Hands-onproficiencydefiningreportingspecsanddatastructureswithinenterpriseplatformssuchasRSAArcher,Jira/Confluence,andTableau(orPowerBI).
  
• TechnicalAgility:SolidSQLskillstoquerydatabaserepositories,validateconsolidatedprojectdata,andauditpipelineoutputs.