Lead Business System Analyst, GFT

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto is seeking a Business System Analyst to lead the analysis and coordination of financial applications. You will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure project requirements are captured and tested effectively. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication and data manipulation skills, along with an undergraduate degree and experience in financial services. This full-time position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible benefits

World-class training program

Work/life balance options

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services.
• Attention to detail to represent stakeholder and project requirements.
• Ability to articulate financial products.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Finance representatives to ensure project objectives are clear.
• Analyze and validate requirements with system analysts.
• Coordinate with project managers to estimate and plan project resources.

Skills

Strong written and oral communication skills

Data manipulation skills (SQL/Python/Excel)

Organizational skills

Project management skills

Critical thinking

Education

Undergraduate degree

Job description

Overview

Are you a talented, creative and results-driven professional who thrives on delivering high-performing applications? Global Functions Technology (GFT) is part of RBC’s Technology and Operations division. GFT collaborates with partners across the company to deliver innovative IT solutions for Risk, Finance, HR, CAO, Audit, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets, Personal and Commercial Banking and Wealth Management. We also lead the development of digital tools and platforms to enhance collaboration. The FIAT Portfolio Management team is responsible for a wide range of projects impacting Finance and Audit that span multiple systems within the Finance/Audit domain. Projects may be internally driven due to upstream changes or new business; externally driven due to accounting-, regulatory-, market-changes; or mergers and acquisitions.

As an end-to-end Business System Analyst, you will understand project objectives, collaborate across IT teams, and lead the coordination of BA specialists and subject matter experts to collate system requirements from Finance users and ensure they are tested and delivered by project end.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Finance representatives and other project stakeholders to ensure the scope and project objectives are clearly articulated and understood.
• Collaborate with IT architects to understand data flows and system responsibilities in the Finance architecture and define the high-level scope of changes across component systems.
• Coordinate with each Finance component’s system analysts and subject matter experts to plan, document, and validate requirements so inbound/outbound data elements, assumptions, system responsibilities, business rules, and non-functional requirements are cohesive and complete for the Finance solution.
• Partner with end-to-end project managers to scope, estimate, plan, capture assumptions, identify interdependencies, and manage risks to delivery.
• Coordinate with QA managers and data providers to clarify test objectives, plan test cycles, address interdependencies, and prioritize bug fixes discovered during testing.
• Work with data providers and Finance QA specialists to ensure critical data elements and non-functional requirements are delivered as expected.
• Analyze and interrogate data sources to assess completeness and quality against Finance requirements; chase data issues to sources to establish root causes and corrective actions or workarounds.
• Understand financial products and related processes so idiosyncrasies are not mishandled or misclassified by Finance systems.

What you need to succeed

Must have:

• Undergraduate degree with change management experience in complex programs or a technical IT/software engineering background.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with attention to detail to represent stakeholder and project requirements.
• Ability to quickly understand and articulate financial products (e.g., loans/deposits, securities, derivatives) or other complex concepts; experience in financial services.
• Data manipulation skills (SQL/Python/Excel) with understanding of databases/data models, data flows, and interfaces.
• Strong organizational, project management, and time management capabilities.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience coordinating across multiple systems on projects.
• Familiarity with the Finance domain in a bank.
• Deadline-driven and results-oriented; able to meet high-quality standards across tasks and deadlines.
• Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

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Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis

Additional Job Details

Address: RBC Centre, 155 Wellington St W, Toronto

City: Toronto

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: Technology and Operations

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salary

Posted Date: 2025-09-12

Application Deadline: 2025-10-03

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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