IT Business Analyst – CMI

Crédit Agricole SA; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector seeks a skilled business analyst with expertise in capital markets. The position involves understanding business objectives, leading solution delivery, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Candidates must have a solid background in business analysis, project management, and strong stakeholder management skills. This is a great opportunity to contribute to impactful projects within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in business analysis for capital markets.
• Experience as a lead business analyst or SME within IT.
• Strong knowledge in business analysis and data management.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of solutions for business needs.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather and interpret functional requirements.
• Perform requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, and deployment.

Skills

Analytical skills

Relationship building

Project management

Troubleshooting skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Job description

The GIT CASO organization is segregated into three IT lines in charge of IT projects, applications support & maintenance of business systems.Capital Market IT: Front-office - Post Trade’ trading systems, including Bonds, FX, Treasury, Linear products, Securitization, Back-office payment systems, reconciliations systems, Calypso, IntelliMatch, Phase3 etc.

We are looking for a hands-on business analyst to function as an SME across Capital Markets. The role requires leading the design, development and deployment of solutions to business requests across the domain. A solid understanding of Capital Market business processes and systems is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the SME of a business line technology team responsible for owning and executing delivery of solutions to address the business' needs.

• Engage with stakeholders at all levels to understand the business objectives and functional requirements necessary to perform their roles efficiently and effectively.

• Elicit, capture and interpret business problems from multiple perspectives; present implications and recommendations with strategic perspective, influencing project parameters and outcomes.

• Perform requirements gathering, solution design, functionality development, user acceptance testing, training, and deployment.

• Develop requirements, write user stories, and design user interfaces of any new functionality that can be understood and built by the development team.

• Understand the data model, architecture and define data structures to enable new system functionality.

• Evaluate the suitability of existing/potential tools to fulfill business needs.

• Closely collaborate with Business Management, Information Technology, and outside vendors to develop and implement new applications and tools for use by the business.

• Act as primary point of contact / SME for the domain on key functional topics and business projects.

• Be the SME to understand the end-to-end impact as a part of incident management.

Additional responsibilities

All activities should be conducted in following context:

• Ensure the respect of policies and procedures of the Bank, as well as regulatory requirements.

• Ensure accuracy and expediency of any activity related to audits.

• Ensure that all system implementations meet US regulatory standards and are done in accordance with the Bank’s policies and procedures.

Supplementary Information

Key Internal contacts

• Primary customers include Operations, and Middle / Front Office departments

• Support functions and business line involved in projects or applications.

• All GIT teams at local or global level.

Key External contacts

• Any external provider involved in projects and more specifically main outsourcing company

Geographical area

America, Canada

City

MONTREAL

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Level of minimal experience

6-10 years

Experience

· 7+ years’ experience working as a business analyst on capital market subjects.

· Experience as lead business analyst / SME within IT domain

· Strong knowledge of business analysis, project management and data managements disciplines.

· Strong skills in developing relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.

· Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

· Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player.

· Real appetite to understand business user requirements and priorities.

Languages

General information

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.By working every day in the interest of society, we are a Group committed to diversity and inclusion and place people at the heart of all our transformations. All our job offersare open to persons with disabilities.For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ca_cibLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-agricole-cib/By working every day in the interest of society, we are a group committed to diversity and inclusion. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.By working every day in the interest of society, we are a Group committed to diversity and inclusion and place people at the heart of all our transformations. All our job offersare open to persons with disabilities.For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ca_cibLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-agricole-cib/By working every day in the interest of society, we are a group committed to diversity and inclusion. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.