Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON (4 days/week Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery on enterprise-wide initiatives through the application of business analysis tools and techniques.
• Proactively identify issues involving workflow procedures 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.

Skills Must have

• Undergraduate or equivalent work experience.
• 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 to capture business and data integration requirements and prepare 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 the 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 databases.
• Previous work experience with traders and investment professionals would be a strong asset.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Able to deliver in a constantly changing and fast-paced organization.
• Capital market experience