Role: Business Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON

Duration: 12+ months

Exp range: 10+ years Exp

Industry: Capital Markets / Investment

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery on enterprise-wide initiatives through application of business analysis tools and techniques. Proactively identify issues involving workflow procedure and processes, identify opportunities for improvement, implement solutions, automate, and innovate.

• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions. Document and validate expectations with subject matter experts and drive the creation of strong system specifications that enable the development and/or acquisition of appropriate systems to meet business requirements.

• Collaborate with business & technology stakeholders to understand priorities, product roadmap, existing system and integration environments, and new business requirements to drive progress towards established objectives.

• Liaise with engineers, solution architects and business subject matter experts to brainstorm, develop and document innovative solutions alternatives. Evaluate alternatives relative to business requirements and provide advice that is rooted in deep subject matter expertise.

• Participate in process design meetings and translate outcomes into process documentation. Conduct process walkthroughs and validation with business subject matter experts. Document key risks, mitigating controls, performance measures, cost drivers and business continuity plans for processes.

• Lead and mentor a team of business analysts and drive priorities to achieve the necessary business outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, working directly with the business and engineers to build complex solutions in the financial/investment industry.

• Ability in capturing business and data integration requirements and preparing the technical specifications for the Engineering team.

• Ability to adjust communication style to present technical and non-technical information to a wide variety of stakeholders.

• Agent of change and continuous improvement in business processes and solutions.

• Work closely with Engineering team to develop and validate test cases to ensure the accuracy and completeness of solutions delivered.

• Experience with Agile Scrum/Kanban processes, and work management tools: JIRA, Confluence

• Experience working with relational database.

• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience with traders and investment professionals would be a strong asset.

Must Have - Skill Set

Python

Capital Markets and Financial Services