Senior Business System Analyst

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto is looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst to join their Agile team. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical skills, as well as experience in facilitating Agile projects. You'll work closely with product owners and developers to ensure the user stories align with business needs and technical complexities. This is an opportunity to thrive in a collaborative environment while contributing to significant business value. Competitive compensation and a comprehensive rewards program are part of the benefits.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Competitive compensation

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Senior Business Systems Analyst.
• Proven experience with medium to larger Agile projects integrated with applications.
• Excellent communication skills and critical thinking abilities.

Responsibilities

• Work with product owners to define priorities and sprint plans.
• Facilitate sprint planning sessions and ensure user stories are created.
• Write detailed specifications and understand requirements.

Skills

Agile Environments

Business Analysis

Critical Thinking

User Experience (UX)

Collaboration

Facilitation

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Postman

Swagger

Job description

Job Description

RBC Wealth Management Technology team is looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our Agile team at RBC Wealth Management Technology. The ideal candidate is not only experienced, but also proactive, curious, and technically strong — someone who asks the right questions and thinks critically before acting. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, understands both business needs and technical complexities, and is passionate about delivering real value.

We build exciting digital (mobile and web) applications for RBC Wealth Management’s clients and advisors. We work in fully Agile way, and foster collaboration, creativity, and entrepreneurial zeal.

If you’re more than just a note-taker — you’re a thinker, builder, and team driver — we’d love to hear from you.

What will you do?

• Be a hands‑on on an agile project
• Work with product owners to define priorities and sprint plan
• Ensure user stories are created and groomed
• Facilitate sprint planning sessions.
• Understand the requirements and write detailed specifications.
• Participate in UX design with the product owner and UX designer.
• Work closely with the developers and QE to ensure that the product is built correctly.
• Create additional documentation or other artefacts to add to the stories for better understanding

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Sr. BSA/BA.
• Proven Sr. BA/BSA experience with medium to larger Agile projects integrated with downstream and upstream applications and processes
• Possesses excellent communication skills; demonstrates strong critical thinking abilities with a proactive approach to inquiry, ensuring the ability to pose insightful questions
• Familiarity with Agile concepts and is well versed with writing User Stories
• Pertinent technical skills to be able to query databases, execute APIs in tools like Postman/Swagger, effectively use tools like Jira, Confluence, Mural, Figma etc.

Nice-to-have

• Financial industry/Wealth Management/Portfolio Management/Client Reporting exposure.
• Ability to facilitate between and influence key decision makers
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to define, influence and impact the technical direction
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret code logic, including OOP principles, control structures, and other programming concepts.
• Candidates with prior experience in Wealth Management Reporting will be considered a strong asset.
• Candidates with exposure to or experience in AI technologies will be given a strong advantage.

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 managing opportunities
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

Job Skills

Agile Environments, Agile Methodology, Agile Projects, Agile Scrum Development, Application Programming Interface (API), Business Analysis, Business Data Analysis, Business Processes, Business Process Modeling, Business Systems, Collaboration, Create User Stories, Critical Thinking, Facilitation, Figma, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Communication, Leadership, Portfolio Management, Prioritization, User Experience (UX), User Experience (UX) Design, Wealth Management

Additional Job Details

Work hours/week: 37.5
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-01-13
Application Deadline: 2026-01-30

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

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.