SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST – PAYMENTS MODERNIZATION
- Toronto, ON, Canada
💰 $60.00/hr + 4% vacation pay · Contract
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- Pay
- 💰 $60.00/hr + 4% vacation pay
- Job type
- Contract
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- Work location
- 📍 Hybrid (4 days in office, Toronto, ON)
- Experience
- 5–7+ years of business analysis experience (8+ years a strong asset)
- Posting language
- English
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Original job description
🚀 SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST – PAYMENTS MODERNIZATION
📍 Hybrid (4 days in office, Toronto, ON)
💰 $60.00/hr + 4% vacation pay
⏳ Dec. 1, 2026 – Nov. 30, 2027 (extension & conversion possible)
About the Role
Join a leading financial institution's Enterprise Payments team and drive our payments modernization initiative. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Payments Platform Capabilities, you'll lead end-to-end business analysis on complex, transformational projects across a collaborative 8-person team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the full business requirements lifecycle, aligning stakeholders from lines of business, technology, operations, and governance
- Identify and manage requirement risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints
- Develop Change Management deliverables (stakeholder analysis, gap analysis, change planning) to ensure organizational readiness
- Apply advanced business analysis tools and techniques to solicit requirements and drive alignment
- Collaborate with technology partners on system requirements and design recommendations
- Develop test strategies, test plans, and test scenarios; support QA activities
- Mentor colleagues and foster a collaborative, diverse team environment
The Project:
Scope: Payments Modernization | Team: 8 professionals | Training: 2-week onboarding
What We're Looking For
✅ Must Have:
- 5–7+ years of business analysis experience (8+ years a strong asset)
- Proven track record on large, complex, multi-stakeholder programs
- Experience across project delivery methods (PDLC, Iterative, Agile)
- Demonstrated expertise in requirements delivery for complex programs
- Banking/Finance project experience
- Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
🎯 Nice to Have:
- Payments-focused background
- Prior financial institution experience
- Agile requirements delivery experience
- BA accreditation
What You'll Get:
✓ Work within a leading FI organization on mission-critical initiatives
✓ Hybrid flexibility (4 days in office, 1 day remote)
✓ 2–4 hrs daily in structured meetings; ample focus time
✓ Opportunity for contract extension & permanent conversion
✓ Collaborative, diverse team environment
✓ Overtime as needed (project-based)
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end business analysis for complex payments modernization projects, managing requirements and aligning business, technology, operations, and governance stakeholders. Develop change management and testing deliverables, collaborate on system requirements and design recommendations, and mentor colleagues.
Requirements
Requires 5–7 or more years of business analysis experience, a track record on large, complex, multi-stakeholder programs, and experience with banking or finance projects. Candidates should demonstrate expertise in requirements delivery, project delivery methods, leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and strong written and verbal communication; payments experience and BA accreditation are assets.
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Gap Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- Systems Requirements
- Solution Design
- Test Strategy Development
- Test Planning
- Quality Assurance Support
- Agile Delivery
- Iterative Delivery
- Project Delivery Lifecycle
- Leadership
Benefits
- Vacation Pay
- Potential Contract Extension
- Potential Permanent Conversion
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Data & Analytics
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
Keywords
- Payments Modernization
- Enterprise Payments
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Lifecycle
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Gap Analysis
- Change Planning
- Organizational Readiness
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Dependency Management
- Constraint Management
- Requirements Elicitation
- System Requirements
- Design Recommendations
- Test Strategies
- Test Plans
- Test Scenarios
- Quality Assurance
- Project Delivery Lifecycle
- Iterative Delivery
- Agile
- Banking
- Financial Services
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Business Analysis Accreditation