Business Systems Analyst - Remote / Telecommute

CYNET SYSTEMS; Markham; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Canada is seeking a talented Business Systems Analyst in Markham. The role involves gathering and documenting business requirements, facilitating communication between business and technical stakeholders, and developing visual system diagrams. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree and extensive experience in information technology. Strong communication and facilitation skills are essential, along with the ability to document processes clearly.

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years of experience in IT/information management.
• Experience in leading workshops for gathering requirements.
• Ability to articulate business system requirements effectively.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business requirements through workshops.
• Create/update technical documents and current state documentation.
• Host requirements presentations for acceptance and verification.

Skills

Communication

Facilitation

Requirements Gathering

Critical Thinking

Presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Computer Science

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description: Deliverables:

• Gather, document and organize business requirements: Be responsible for gathering, through workshops and focused interviews with the business owner as well as technical SMEs, all business requirements and processes.
• Where needed, create new or update any existing business requirements and/or technical documents to reflect current requirements.
• Any existing documentation that is available, will be provided.
• Deliverable Format: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Visio as required.
• Approval: Business Owner/Manager.
• Current State documentation (including process maps): Working with IT Staff, this role will be responsible to identify and document a system's current state, including workflows, processes, data diagrams and what activities occur within that system (functional and non-functional), including reporting, interfaces and security.
• Deliverable Format: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Visio as required, possible data diagramming tools.
• Approval: Business Owner/Manager/Senior Technical Analyst.
• Requirements Presentations: Host requirements presentations for business as well as technical SMEs, for acceptance and verification of requirements.
• There could also be a presentation or requirements to the corporate solution architecture services team to initiate solution identification.
• Deliverable Format: Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Visio as required.
• Approval: Business Owner/ Manager.

Mandate Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science or a related discipline and a minimum of seven years of experience in information technology/ information management related work experience. 7 Years
• Demonstrated experience as a Business Systems Analyst including requirements gathering and documentation, developing technical solutions and outlining solutions options and improvements. 5 Years
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English. Yes/No
• Demonstrated experience engaging business and technical subject matter experts to elicit requirements by leading the workshop/discovery sessions, applying critical thinking to identify business requirements and technical capabilities, effective documentation preparation and ability to clearly articulate business system requirements and desired outcomes. 5 Years
• Demonstrated experience in producing visual system diagrams that clearly depict the relationships between business functions and develop the business process documents. 5 Years
• Proposals that do not clearly demonstrate the capability to meet these mandatory requirements will be disqualified from further consideration.

Scored Requirements:

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in interviewing by preparing and asking clear and probing questions for requirements gathering. 5 years
• Facilitation skills - Demonstrated experience in arranging and leading workshops for requirements gathering using online or in person tools. 5 years
• Presentation skills - Demonstrated experience in presenting findings, requirements and solution proposals to various business and technical audiences at various levels from line to executive. 5 years
• Experience analyzing and documenting business requirements to identify information, procedures, interfaces, decision flows and reporting requirements. 5 years
• Experience in clearly documenting and diagramming work process and flow models using a variety of techniques (C4, Flowcharts, swim lane etc). 5 years
• Experience in database design and producing data models using modern diagramming tools, preferably suited to Oracle databases. 5 years
• Experience defining and documenting interfaces of manual to automated operations within application sub-systems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems. 5 years
• Experience working with a distributed team (in person, remote and mixed locations). 3 years