Sr. Business Systems Consultant - 5419

S I Systems; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking a Business Systems Consultant to enhance their data and analytics environment. The role involves defining business capabilities, analyzing user needs, and supporting modernization efforts, requiring strong analytical and communication skills along with extensive industry experience.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years experience as a Business & Systems Analyst.
• Experience in life insurance or financial services.
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Define business capabilities and roadmap for IT modernization.
• Analyze user needs and translate into technical requirements.
• Support data and analytics platform development.

Skills

Data Analysis

Data Visualization

Data Integration Modelling

Transformational System Work

Client Facing Technologies

Design Thinking

Strong Analytical Skills

Strong Communication Skills

Matrix Team Cooperation

Education

University degree in business or technology

Tools

AWS Data service components

Job description

Duration:15 months to start (Until Oct 2026)

The Business Systems Consultant role will play a crucial role in driving IT modernization efforts, with a particular emphasis on enhancing the data and analytics environment, among other key, transformational initiatives.

The Business Systems Consultant has deep knowledge of a wide variety of business concepts, practices, and procedures as they relate to IT and general operations. They rely on their expertise, experience, and judgment to plan and achieve goals, and to do a variety of tasks. The Business Systems Consultant conducts needs analysis, writes requirements/user stories, collaborates with others, and supports the team to increase productivity and reduce costs.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the big picture to define business capabilities and go forward roadmap.
• Analyze and define user needs and translate them into requirements/epics/user stories/data requirements/data mapping documents
• Analyze and define data needs to build out the data and analytics platform for HNW/UHNW insurance space
• Expand and grow existing platform capabilities to solve new data problems and challenges
• Identify opportunities for new data acquisition and new uses for existing data resources
• Analyze and document how systems, processes, procedures, and clients will be impacted by future development with a focus on the links between processes, systems and data throughout the organization.
• Create and/or review and provide comments on business and technical documentation.
• Support business on the roll-out of what has been developed with a focus on end-to-end validation.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, influencing and sharing recommendations

Skills:

• 5 to 10 years of progressive experience as a Business & Systems Analyst with both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience in the life insurance or related financial services industry
• Experience in data analysis, data visualization, data and integration modelling or supporting a data and analytics platform
• Experienced in transformational system work, moving from legacy system to modern system.
• Experience working with client facing technologies/digital engagement platforms.
• Experience in AWS Data service components is an asset
• Knowledge of Design Thinking principles.
• University degree in business or technology or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong understanding of privacy, compliance, control, and security requirements.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and simply both complex business and technical concepts and align organization on decisions.
• Ability to work and demonstrate cooperation in a matrixed team environment.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments.