Senior Business Systems Analyst - GFT Halifax

RBC; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution located in Halifax is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst to lead requirements delivery and data analysis. This role involves eliciting and documenting functional requirements for Trade Compliance projects, as well as interacting with various teams to gather business and data requirements. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in business systems analysis, particularly in an agile environment, and will play a crucial role in managing stakeholder expectations and delivering project outcomes.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible benefits

Work/life balance options

World-class training program

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with business systems analysis in an agile (Scrum) environment.
• Experience with defining and documenting complex functional business logic.
• Expertise in test planning, test case preparation, and testing of applications.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document functional and system requirements for Trade Compliance projects.
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for requirement completions.
• Build and maintain requirements documentation repositories on Confluence.

Skills

Business systems analysis

Functional business logic documentation

Stakeholder management

Test planning and execution

Agile methodology (Scrum)

Tools

Oracle

MS SQL Server

MySQL

Python scripting

Job description

Job Description

As a Senior Business Systems Analyst in the Compliance Technology team, you will execute all aspects of requirements delivery and data analysis—planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation—and requirements management. You will play a core role in translating business requirement documents into functional requirements to design and implement new scenarios to provide surveillance to detect potential market misconduct.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document functional and system requirements for Trade Compliance projects for Capital Markets and Wealth Management.
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of details and accuracy of estimates.
• Build and maintain on Confluence a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards.
• Interact with source systems teams that will provide data for trade, market, client and reference data for Compliance Applications.
• Work with the RTB team on escalated production issues, document requirements and coordinate activities for RTB and CTB teams.
• Work with the ETL team, developers, Vendor consultants and numerous data sources to gather business and data requirements and mapping specifications.
• Provide BSA support to development team and quality assurance team during development, testing and implementation.
• Participate in implementation planning, data preparation and post implementation validation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with business systems analysis in an agile (Scrum) environment.
• Experience with defining and documenting complex functional business logic and data mapping specifications within the Investment Industry (knowledge of investment products and their trade life cycle).
• Expertise in test planning, test case preparation and testing of applications and data mapping.
• Expertise in managing various stakeholder expectations in delivering project deliverables.

Nice-to-have

• Experience in working with large projects with multiple data sources and system interfaces.
• Understanding of ETL processes and working knowledge of databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server or MySQL (SQL scripting).
• Experience with software development methods and life cycle, hands‑on Python scripting.
• Ability to analyze and understand database schema for data mapping.
• Ability to work with a global business group and requirements.

Benefits

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable. • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact in technology transformation.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team.
• A world‑class training program in financial services and technology.
• Flexible work/life balance options.

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