Senior Business Analyst (Mobile Banking Team)

Raise; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise is hiring a Senior Business Analyst for the Mobile Banking Team in Toronto. Hybrid work arrangement (4 days on-site). 12-month contract with potential extension.

The role centers on business and systems analysis for digital banking projects, delivering requirements across the full lifecycle and collaborating with product, design and IT teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of BA/BSA experience.
• 3+ years of experience on Agile projects.
• Experience with Mobile and Online banking projects.
• Proven ability to gather Business and Systems requirements independently.
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Experience with user stories, business and systems specifications, diagrams and maps.
• Experience on large projects over $2M.
• Recent Banking experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong requirements methodology knowledge.
• Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for business and systems analysis activities on medium to large size Digital projects.
• Lead end-to-end requirements delivery: planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation; manage changes to Business Areas and Technology.
• Provide guidance to junior BAs and support BA Chapters; drive knowledge sharing.
• Sprint admin: maintain sprint activities and user stories in JIRA.

Skills

BA/BSA experience

Agile / Scrum

Mobile & Online banking

Requirements gathering

User stories & acceptance criteria

JIRA & Confluence

Stakeholder collaboration

Reporting & documentation

Bachelor’s degree

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Senior Business Analyst (Mobile Banking Team)

• Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (4 days a week)
• Pay Rate: $65.37/hr - $77.18/hr
• Contract Length: 12 Months with possibility for extension

We at Raise are hiring a Senior Business Analyst (Mobile Banking Team) for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for business and systems analysis activities on medium to large size Digital projects.

The role is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support - for changes to Business Areas and Technology.

Common Agile BA activities:

• Product Backlog Management: Identify, document, and refine user stories to increase the degree of detail relating to acceptance criteria, assumptions, constraints, dependencies. Identify Business Rules and Data Elements associated with the user stories.
• Create and maintain Requirements repository – Business rules, API’s, NFR’s, Data requirements, etc.
• Lead and facilitate collaborative refinement sessions with your squad (tech, product and design team) to gather feedback and ensure common understanding of requirements
• Understanding of Current State: Understand current state from a business perspective and to a lesser degree, from a technical perspective.Operational impacts will be understood in coordination with the Product Owner and Journey Operations Lead.
• Assist Product Owner in decomposing Epics in to User Stories
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation in Confluence to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards
• Assist Product Owner’s in managing risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
• Provide guidance and support to build the capabilities of the junior BAs and participate in the BA Chapters, encouraging knowledge sharing and learning across the entire BA practice
• Sprint admin: Digital maintenance of sprint activities and user stories in JIRA

Must have skills:

• 6+ years of experience as a BA/BSA
• 3+ years of experience on Agile projects
• Experience with Mobile and Online banking projects
• Proven ability to gather Business requirements and Systems requirements independently
• Excellent attention to detail, analytical thinking, and gap analysis
• Demonstrated experience with user stories, business and systems specifications, business context diagrams and business process maps
• Experience working on large projects over $2 million
• Recent Banking experience
• Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders
• Excellent collaboration skills, and highly adaptable
• Strong knowledge of Requirements methodology (planning, elicitation, documentation)
• Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline

Nice to have skills:

• Previous Banking Experience.

Looking for meaningful work? We can help!

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/

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