Product Owner/Lead BA

Insight Global; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 82,656 - 103,320; Full time

Job summary

A leading virtual financial institution in Toronto is looking for a Senior Product Owner/Lead BA to modernize a legacy transaction system. The successful candidate will define requirements, work closely with stakeholders, and create user stories. This role requires over 8 years of experience in Business Analysis or Product Ownership, a strong understanding of accounting principles, and experience with transaction-based systems. The position offers a competitive pay rate of $60-75/hr and requires on-site work 3-4 days per week in Downtown Toronto.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Business Analyst or Product Owner roles.
• Strong understanding of accounting and financial concepts.
• Experience with legacy transaction-processing systems.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Product Owner for the legacy transactions system modernization project.
• Elicit, document, and prioritize business requirements.
• Facilitate backlog prioritization and sprint planning.

Skills

Business Analysis

Product Ownership

Accounting principles

Agile/Scrum

Transaction-based systems

Job description

Insight Global is hiring for a leading Big 5 Virtual financial institution in downtown Toronto, is delivering a large-scale transformational portfolio and is seeking a senior Product Owner/Lead BA hybrid. You will support a project focused on a legacy internal transactions system. This system manages debit/credit postings to accounts and general ledgers. The successful candidate will play a critical role in defining requirements, shaping product direction, and partnering closely with both technical and business stakeholders. This role requires deep knowledge of accounting and financial concepts, as well as strong experience working with transaction-based or GL-integrated systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Product Owner for the legacy transactions system modernization project.
• Serve as the Lead Business Analyst, responsible for eliciting, documenting, and prioritizing business and functional requirements.
• Partner closely with stakeholders across Accounting, Finance, and Technology to understand needs and translate them into clear deliverables.
• Create detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Collaborate and align with related project teams, especially those supporting parallel accounting or finance transformation work.
• Facilitate backlog prioritization, grooming sessions, and sprint planning.
• Analyze current-state processes involving internal transactions, debits/credits, and GL impacts; recommend enhancements.
• Support UAT planning and execution to ensure solutions meet business expectations.
• Ensure all requirements adhere to accounting and financial reporting principles.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, or hybrid BA/PO role.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, debits/credits, general ledger structures, and financial controls.
• Experience working with legacy systems that support financial or transaction-processing functions.
• Demonstrated ability to build clear, concise requirements and user stories.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience with Fiserv or similar financial applications.
• Prior involvement in banking system migrations or “bank-in-a-bank” projects.
• Exposure to financial reconciliation tools, accounting sub-ledgers, or payments/transactions platforms.
• Experience supporting finance transformation or modernization initiatives.
• Background working in large enterprise or regulated industries

The pay range for this role is $60-75/hr. It is a hybrid role with 3-4 days per week onsite in Downtown Toronto.