Senior Business Analyst

Affinity; Halifax; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Affinity Group is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a public sector client in Halifax, Canada. You will drive requirements, plan discovery sessions, and align with SAP modernization standards.

You will collaborate with project teams and stakeholders, manage documentation, and support governance, testing, data quality, and organizational readiness throughout the project lifecycle. Experience with ERP transformations and strong communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum five (5) years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting large-scale business transformation, ERP, or technology implementation projects.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating business requirements, business processes, and stakeholder needs.
• Experience facilitating workshops, interviews, and working sessions with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and project teams.
• Experience developing and maintaining project documentation, including requirements, process models, business rules, decision logs, and traceability artifacts.
• Experience working within structured project delivery methodologies and collaborating with cross-functional teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience using business analysis, process mapping, requirements management, documentation management, or project delivery tools to support planning, analysis, testing, and reporting activities.

Responsibilities

• Providing regular status updates on assigned activities, deliverables, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Adhering to SAP Modernization Program standards, methodologies, governance processes, and documentation requirements.
• Collaborating with project team members, business stakeholders, and external partners to support project objectives and deliverables.
• Maintaining assigned project artifacts and ensuring documentation is complete, accurate, and current.
• Participating in project planning, governance, quality assurance, and continuous improvement activities as required.
• Supporting knowledge transfer, stakeholder engagement, and organizational readiness activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Plan and facilitate discovery, analysis and validation sessions. Document processes, requirement, business rules, decisions, actions and traceability.
• Analyze issues, options, impacts, dependencies, volumes and stakeholder needs.
• Prepare concise recommendations, governance materials and decision records.
• Support data-quality assessment, remediation tracking and conversion validation.
• Develop test scenarios, cases, evidence and defect analysis.
• Support change-impact, readiness, cutover and hypercare activities.
• Maintain artefacts in approved repositories using program standards.
• Use approved AI tools for transcription, drafting, synthesis and quality checks, with accountable human review.
• Move between workstreams while preserving continuity, context and priorities.
• Identify, document and communicate risks, issues, dependencies and status information to support effective project governance and delivery.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder collaboration

Workshop facilitation

Documentation management

Tools

SAP

Requirements management tools

Job description

Job Description

On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is seeking a Senior Business Analyst.

On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is seeking a Senior Business Analyst.

Responsibilities

• Providing regular status updates on assigned activities, deliverables, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Adhering to SAP Modernization Program standards, methodologies, governance processes, and documentation requirements.
• Collaborating with project team members, business stakeholders, and external partners to support project objectives and deliverables.
• Maintaining assigned project artifacts and ensuring documentation is complete, accurate, and current.
• Participating in project planning, governance, quality assurance, and continuous improvement activities as required.
• Supporting knowledge transfer, stakeholder engagement, and organizational readiness activities throughout the project lifecycle.Plan and facilitate discovery, analysis and validation sessions. Document processes, requirement, business rules, decisions, actions and traceability.
• Analyze issues, options, impacts, dependencies, volumes and stakeholder needs.
• Prepare concise recommendations, governance materials and decision records.
• Support data-quality assessment, remediation tracking and conversion validation.
• Develop test scenarios, cases, evidence and defect analysis.
• Support change-impact, readiness, cutover and hypercare activities.
• Maintain artefacts in approved repositories using program standards.
• Use approved AI tools for transcription, drafting, synthesis and quality checks, with accountable human review.
• Move between workstreams while preserving continuity, context and priorities.
• Identify, document and communicate risks, issues, dependencies and status information to support effective project governance and delivery.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Minimum five (5) years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting large-scale business transformation, ERP, or technology implementation projects.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating business requirements, business processes, and stakeholder needs.
• Experience facilitating workshops, interviews, and working sessions with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and project teams.
• Experience developing and maintaining project documentation, including requirements, process models, business rules, decision logs, and traceability artifacts.
• Experience working within structured project delivery methodologies and collaborating with cross-functional teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience using business analysis, process mapping, requirements management, documentation management, or project delivery tools to support planning, analysis, testing, and reporting activities.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting SAP ERP, SAP SuccessFactors, or other large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience working with public sector organizations or large, complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience using business process modelling, requirements management, project delivery, testing, or documentation management tools.
• Knowledge of organizational change management, business readiness, training, or stakeholder engagement practices.
• Experience supporting solution design, testing, data migration, or implementation activities in partnership with system integrators or external vendors.
• Professional Business Analysis certification (CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, or equivalent) and/or related project delivery certifications

About Affinity

Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

For more information on Affinity, please visit www.affinity-group.ca

Job Number: 13974