Senior Business Analyst – Capital Markets

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst – Capital Markets

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: 6 Months

Senior Business Analyst

The Business Analysis practice exists at the forefront of change, playing a crucial role in the success of change initiatives.  The Sr. Analyst will manage key deliverables in various initiatives of size, risk, and complexity. 

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Liaises with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities and facilitates solutions to enable the achievement of organizational goals.
• Builds exceptional relationships with business partners and internal stakeholders such as Technology, Operations, and Risk.  
• Analyzes data and creates documents and plans in service of informing, advising, or updating stakeholders.
• Ensures business needs are mapped to requirements/stories and are approved by all relevant stakeholders.
• Plans and helps create user acceptance testing deliverables and facilitates testing end-to-end with all relevant stakeholders.
• Leads and collaborates with the project team to ensure the quality of work products.
• Manages complexity across business value, technology, and interaction models.
• Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of various complexities.
• Develops innovative approaches to resolve problems and significant issues.
• Facilitates, recommends and implements solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business, as applicable.
• Identifies emerging issues and trends during requirements, testing, and OCM phases to inform decision-making.
• Enables groups to successfully accept changes by informing stakeholders of their implications; recommends actions as appropriate.
• Prepares and delivers presentations for senior leaders and project team as applicable.
• Audits the quality of reports submitted by analysts and provides related coaching and support, where applicable.
• Ensures system specifications meet expectations/requirements, and negotiates solutions.
• Creates documentation to ensure the supportability of analyses where requirements document current-state to target state needs, testing is completed with acceptance, and target operating state change is planned..
• Develops and implements data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality.
• Filters and “cleans” data, and reviews computer reports, printouts and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems, as necessary.
• Remains alert to new techniques for insights, analytics, and data visualization, and devises new ways of applying them.
• Interprets data, analyzes results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports.
• Recommends approaches to streamline and integrate business and/or technological processes in the organization to improve overall efficiency.
• Facilitates discussions and follows a structured approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate and manage requirements, User Acceptance testing, and operational change with stakeholders.
• Identifies opportunities to strengthen business analysis, testing, and operational change capability, such as: sharing expertise to promote team development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks across.
• Focus is primarily on business/group within CM; may have broader, enterprise-wide focus.
• Provides specialized consulting, analytical and/or technical support.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Leads the preparation of end-user reference materials and prepares end-user training materials.
• Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

• Typically between 7-10 years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Possesses analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrates applied knowledge of one or more analysis and problem decomposition technique.
• Understands complete Software Development Life Cycle and can apply the applicable portions of the ‘Feasibility,’ ‘Requirements,” and ‘Analysis’ phases.
• Demonstrates writing and documentation skills.
• Understands and can explain to others the core processes involved in their area of support.
• Deep knowledge and technical proficiency gained through extensive education and business experience.
• Verbal & written communication skills – In-depth.
• Collaboration & team skills – In-depth.
• Analytical and problem solving skills – In-depth.
• Influence skills – In-depth.
• Data driven decision making – In-depth.
• Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities & individual learning.