Position Title: Business Analyst – IT
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 5-6 months
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Global Analytics Engineering
The business line provides business intelligence support and supporting areas using both repeatable and ad hoc reporting delivery reports (charts, graphs, tables, etc) that enable informed business decisions.
Project: Require a Business Analyst to support the project, which has complex requirements to build insights on Commercial customers across multiple geographies in International Banking.
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a growing field in the banking industry
Typical Day in Role:
- Works with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies.
- Gathers requirements from business units and translates those to programmers and developers.
- Prepares cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on system implementation.
- Demonstrates an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities Supports one or more highly complex business processes.
- Works on multiple projects as a project team member
- Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience as a Business Analyst, with a focus on technical projects and requirement gathering. (No process side only It ones)
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall.
- Experience with requirements management tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, or similar.
- 8-10 years of experience working with SQL, Visio and Excel.
- 2 years of experience with Power Bi.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Any process certification, such as Six Sigma, IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) CBPP, BPM, ISO 20000, ITIL, CMMI.
- Experience in Google Cloud Platform
- Bilingual: English and Spanish
Soft Skills Required:
- Strong business analysis and requirement-gathering skills.
- Strong PC skills including knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible/adaptable in exercising judgment in a changing environment and to manage competing priorities.
- Proven ability to learn business processes quickly and work well with business partners at different organizational levels.
- Exceptional leadership skills to review processes and procedures to create efficiencies, eliminate duplication and provide organizational support to achieve business objectives.
- Strong relationship management with an ability to establish productive relationships between various leaders, departments and partners across the organization.
- Well-developed communication skills, including precise articulation of ideas and opinions to prepare detailed business cases and proposals.
- Solutions-oriented and ability to develop and create innovative solutions to critical business or organizational data issues
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
- Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or a related field required
- Any process certification, such as Six Sigma, IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) CBPP, BPM, ISO 20000, ITIL, CMMI.
Best vs. Average Candidate
The best candidate is someone with experience as BA, speaks Spanish, and has a certificate in IIBA.
Candidate Review & Selection
Two rounds of interviews
1st round – HM – 30 mins – 45 mins – MS Teams Video – The first 15 mins is for Introduction, project overview, and what we are looking for, next 15 mins to assess with questions previous experience related to Business Analysis. No coding is required. The manager will ask questions about PowerBI – No technical assessments are required.
2nd round –Director – 30 mins – MS Teams Video – ‘’get to know’’ questions such as ‘’Tell about you’’ and other behavioral questions.
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$60.00 and CA$65.00
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
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