Functional Business Analyst

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You Are
We are looking for a Functional Business Analyst to support change initiatives across retail banking and retail investment platforms. You will work with product, operations, compliance, and technology teams to define requirements for mainframe-backed and enterprise solutions, covering accounts, mutual funds, GICs, and registered plans.

Key Responsibilities
• Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements through workshops, interviews, and process reviews
• Write BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and data mapping documents
• Define requirements for retail product capabilities such as account opening, KYC, transactions, fees, statements, and tax reporting
• Analyze impacts on upstream and downstream systems, including mainframe batch and online processing, file interfaces, and APIs
• Perform gap analysis and impact assessments for regulatory and product changes
• Partner with Compliance and Risk to embed regulatory requirements into solution design
• Review test strategy and test cases, and lead or support UAT and go-live readiness
• Manage requirement changes and maintain traceability across the delivery lifecycle
• Support defect triage, production issue analysis, and post-implementation reviews

• This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

Required Skills and Experience
• [5-8+] years as a Functional BA or Business Analyst in Canadian retail banking and/or retail investments
• Working knowledge of retail products: chequing and savings, GICs, mutual funds, self-directed investing, and registered accounts (RRSP, TFSA, RESP, FHSA, RRIF, LIRA)
• Familiarity with Canadian regulatory and compliance topics: KYC and suitability, CRM2 fee and performance reporting, FINTRAC (AML/ATF), PIPEDA, CIRO and CSA requirements
• Strong skills in Agile (Scrum/SAFe) and/or Waterfall delivery
• Proficiency in SQL for data analysis and validation
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and process modelling tools (BPMN, UML, Visio)
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills

• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.

Preferred
• Experience at a major Canadian bank (Schedule I) or a Canadian wealth/investment firm
• Exposure to mainframe-based core banking or investment platforms (batch cycles, COBOL applications, file-based integrations)
• Knowledge of Fundserv, order processing, trade settlement, and fund accounting flows
• Experience with data migration, platform modernization, or vendor platform integration
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, or Canadian Securities Course (CSC) / Investment Funds in Canada (IFC)
• Familiarity with OSFI guidelines (e.g., B-13, E-21) and operational risk and control frameworks

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $82,600 to $132,600

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services - creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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