Business Analyst – IT

Position Title: Business Analyst – IT
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 6 months
             
Story Behind the Need
Business group: GWE – Product Strategy, Asset Management
The team is the main liaison between the business stakeholders and technology teams, as well as our vendors. Responsible for ensuring the business requirements, solutions are clearly documented and developed to meet the needs of the stakeholders.
Manages and provides oversight for work within a project team, ensuring all assigned tasks are completed thoroughly, accurately and within assigned time frames. Provides support/guidance with testing requirements, implementation, and manages change to a steady state maintenance function.
Provide a very high level of professional service to customers (both internal and external) consistent with client’s core values.
Projects: The BA will work within a project team ensuring all tasks assigned to them are completed thoroughly, accurately and within assigned time frames. Activities include data analysis, impact analysis, process analysis, preparing detailed documentation of requirements for systems/process changes, and preparation of instructions for users.
Reason: Additional
Candidate Value Proposition:

• Work with and provides support to Senior Business Analysts and development and other stakeholders, ensuring system requirements are realized.
• Provides professional service to customers (both internal and external) consistent with client’s core values.

Typical Day in Role:

• Work with the Senior Business Analysts/ Senior Manager to ensure the end-to-end process is fully analyzed and documented which include all delivery channels, affected processing units and technologies.
• Work with the Senior Business Analysts/ Senior Manager to ensure that requirements are clearly, accurately, and thoroughly documented and understood for both system changes and/or process changes.
• Review and provide feedback on functional and system design specifications.
• Provides support with testing requirements, implementation, and works through transitioning the change to a steady state maintenance function.
• Manage timely and accurate delivery of assigned tasks for assigned projects with a focus on business requirements, ensuring that the Senior Manager and/or Project Lead are kept informed of all unresolved issues.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 2+ years of experience as a BA in mutual fund operations, working knowledge of applications like IFAST, UNITRAX, FUNDS 360.
• 2+ years of experience in Microsoft products such as excel, power BI and MS Access
• 1+ years of experience with testing (UAT, application testing, etc.)
• 1+ years of experience in gathering, analyzing and creating project artifacts including business requirements, business rules, analysis documents and business flow charts/diagrams

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Coding experience (SQL)
• Software troubleshooting experience.
• CBAP or other BA Certification is an asset.

Soft Skills Required:

• Strong verbal and business writing skills: with the ability to communicate effectively to different audiences: – e.g. developers; internal business clients, and external vendors.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Education & Certificates:

• Post-Secondary Diploma/Degree in the Business Field.

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Candidate who can understand the mutual fund operations business. Very strong business verbal and written skills.
Interview schedule:
1-2 rounds
1st Director/HM – 30 mins – MS Teams Video Technical skills
2nd round –panel– 30 mins – MS Teams Video