Management Consultant / Business Analyst - Edmonton (future opportunities - 2026)

Sia; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

RRSP contributions

Career development

Education reimbursement

Global projects

Job summary

Sia is seeking a dynamic Management Consultant – Business Analyst to support clients through business, technology, and AI-enabled transformation. The role involves structured problem-solving, documenting requirements, and facilitating workshops to translate needs into actionable outcomes.

The candidate will analyze current processes, map future-state designs, and engage both business and technical teams to drive transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or information technology or equivalent education plus experience.
• 5-10 years experience as Business Analyst or PM/Scrum Master on IT projects.
• Experience with Microsoft technologies is an asset.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies and SCRUM/AGILE certifications are assets.
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills with stakeholders and technical teams.
• Knowledge of project management principles and methodologies.
• Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical terms.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity.
• Collaborative and receptive to feedback.
• Business Analyst Certification and Change Management Certification are assets

Responsibilities

• Apply management consulting skills including problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, and executive communication to deliver actionable recommendations.
• Partner with clients to understand objectives, challenges, needs, and transformation goals.
• Facilitate workshops to gather requirements and validate processes.
• Create and analyze current-state and future-state process maps, identify gaps and impacts.
• Document rules, information needs, and functional requirements using BA techniques.
• Conduct fit/gap analyses and support feasibility studies and cost/benefit analyses.
• Research gaps and deploy practical business and technology solutions.
• Develop BA deliverables: BRDs, functional specs, traceability, process docs, decision materials.
• Monitor process effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
• Support change management including stakeholder engagement and training materials.
• Participate in testing: test planning, validation, execution support, UAT facilitation

Skills

Structured problem solving

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communication

Facilitation

Requirements gathering

Business analysis

Agile familiarity

Presentation skills

Translate requirements

Education

Bachelor's degree in computing or IT

Tools

Microsoft technologies

Job description

Sia is a next-generation management consulting firm and pioneer of Consulting 4.0. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. With expertise in more than 40 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.

Our continued success and expansion are primarily due to the quality of our team members. Our consultants work closely with the C-suite at our clients to accelerate and de-risk business growth while improving their customer and employee experience.

Job Description

Our Western Canada Team is growing and looking for exceptional consulting professionals to join us. We provide unique opportunities to work with high-profile clients and support transformative initiatives across diverse industries, including energy, utilities, public sector, technology, and other complex business environments.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Management Consultant – Business Analyst to support clients through business, technology, and AI-enabled transformation. The ideal candidate is a strong consultant with hands-on experience analyzing business processes, gathering and documenting requirements, supporting solution design, and helping organizations translate business needs into practical, actionable outcomes.

This role requires a structured problem-solver with strong analytical thinking, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and communication skills. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in complex and ambiguous environments, partnering with both business and technical teams to define problems, assess current-state processes, identify improvement opportunities, and support the successful delivery of transformation initiatives.

The candidate should also demonstrate an understanding of emerging technologies, including Generative AI and agentic AI, and how these capabilities can be applied responsibly to improve business processes, enhance decision-making, increase efficiency, and support new ways of working.

Please note the following:

• While our offices are located in Alberta, you may be asked to work East Coast hours should our client have that requirement.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found

Key Responsibilities

• Apply strong management consulting skills, including structured problem-solving, analytical thinking, stakeholder engagement, executive-level communication, facilitation, business case awareness, and the ability to translate complex and ambiguous business needs into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Partner with clients and stakeholders to understand business objectives, current-state challenges, operational needs, and transformation goals.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to gather requirements, validate processes, align stakeholders, and support decision‑making.
• Create and analyze business process maps, including current-state “as-is” and future-state “to-be” processes, and identify required changes, gaps, dependencies, and impacts to roles, people, systems, and operations.
• Identify, document, and analyze business rules, information needs, functional requirements, and process requirements using industry-standard business analysis tools and techniques.
• Conduct fit/gap analysis of proposed solutions and support feasibility studies, cost/benefit analyses, planning initiatives, and development of new deliverables.
• Research, analyze, and identify system or process gaps, recommend improvements, and support the deployment of practical business and technology solutions.
• Develop, review, and maintain key business analysis deliverables, including Business Requirements Documents, functional specifications, traceability matrices, process documentation, and decision materials.
• Monitor and measure process effectiveness to ensure consistent value delivery and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Support change management activities, including change impact identification, stakeholder engagement, communications, and review or creation of training materials.
• Participate in testing activities, including test planning, process validation, execution support, issue resolution, and facilitation of User Acceptance Testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or information technology or equivalent education plus experience
• 5-10 years experience working as a Business Analyst or PM/Scrum Master on IT projects
• Experience working specifically with Microsoft technologies will be considered an asset
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies (understanding the roles and responsibilities of various team members). Any formal SCRUM or AGILE certifications will be considered an asset
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills. Ability to interact with key business stakeholders as well as technical team members
• Experience and knowledge of project management principles and methodologies
• Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical, lay terms
• Motivated by an entrepreneurial mindset and comfortable with ambiguity
• Confident, self-aware collaborator open to receiving and providing, effective feedback
• Business Analyst Certification is considered an asset
• Change Management Certification is considered an asset

Additional Information

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing team to serve some of the most exciting and highly respected companies in the world. You will have the opportunity to provide clients with pioneer mind‑set thinking, customized solutions, and you will often have the satisfaction of seeing the impact of your work on their business. We are committed to a healthy work‑life integration.

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary with a clear and structured yearly salary increase and bonuses
• Healthcare that includes dental, vision, life insurance, and RRSP contributions
• Career advocacy program that supports achieving personal development goals through coaching, collaboration, and real‑time feedback
• Robust learning and development platform through the Sia Institute, Working Groups and Training
• Reimbursement for continuing education and certifications
• Your team will consist of highly educated, specialised and entrepreneurial consultants within a company which is a successful player in the global consulting market
• Working in an environment which creates opportunities to share knowledge and work together on international projects with colleagues all over the world

DEIB

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
• LGBTQ+
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

To learn more about Sia Partners, please visit:

https://www.sia-partners.com/en/join-us

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.