SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST, DATA & ANALYTICS
Need a someone to start ASAP.
Location: downtown Toronto business core. Hybrid 2 day in office minimum.
Market rate Salary +
Toronto-based IT company in the financial services and fintech industry. Focused on technology consulting, cloud computing, integration solutions, and enterprise data and analytics.
Looking for a Senior Business Analyst who will work closely with our project teams in GTA area to successfully deliver Application Development and System Integration projects.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define business, process, reporting, integration, and system requirements for enterprise transformation initiatives including ERP, finance, and data platforms.
- Develop requirements strategies, priorities, epics and user stories.
- Lead requirements workshops and strategic discovery sessions with business leaders, subject matter experts, and technology teams to establish project objectives and priorities, business capabilities, operational requirements and measurable success criteria.
- Facilitate decision-making by identifying trade-offs, presenting recommendations, and building consensus across business and technical stakeholders.
- Develop reporting and dashboard mock-ups, wireframes, and visualization designs to communicate analytics requirements and target-state solutions.
- System integration specification analysis and documentation
- Elicit, analyze, and document reporting, analytics, KPI, and data integration requirements to support business decision-making.
- Partner with data engineering and reporting teams to define data requirements, mappings, and validation criteria for dashboards and enterprise reporting solutions.
- Facilitate meeting/interviews and communicate requirements to sponsors, stakeholders and project team members
- Verify the target solution and support the technology to ensure that the target system will meet the requirements
- Act as the functional lead and subject matter expert on the requirements throughout solution design, development, testing, and implementation activities.
- Develop test scenarios, support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and validate analytics solutions to ensure business requirements and reporting needs are met.
- Create user documentation, support adoption of analytics solutions, and provide guidance to business users on effective use of dashboards and reporting tools.
- Assist in work effort estimation and planning
- Help mentor and support junior Business Analysts and other team members
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum 7 years' experience in Information Technology in agile environments with requirements strategies, product ownership, preferably supporting enterprise analytics, reporting, SaaS platforms, data integration, or digital transformation initiatives.
- At least 5 years’ experience of business and systems analysis in the Financial Industry
- Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, Mathematics or Business
- Agile certification (CSPO, CSM, CSP, PMI-PBA, CBAP, or equivalent) considered an asset
- At least 3-years' experience of delivering projects using a true Agile/Scrum methodology
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Strong business and IT knowledge and experience in the Banking and Financial Industries.
- Experience in requirement management and planning, defining user stories and test criteria.
- Experience in facilitating sessions with business and technical stakeholders for requirements elicitation or JAD Sessions.
- Experience gathering requirements for reporting, dashboards, analytics, and KPI development.
- Experience translating business requirements into data visualization mockups and dashboard designs.
- Ability to collaborate with data engineers on data integration, transformation, and data modelling requirements.
- Experience working with enterprise SaaS platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or similar systems would be considered an asset.
- Strong SQL skills with the ability to analyze data, validate requirements, and support reporting and analytics initiatives.
