Business Analyst III
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert Pay Rate: Starting form $52 per hour Location: Toronto, ON Location Type: Hybrid Business Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Contract
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- Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert Pay Rate: Starting form $52 per hour Location: Toronto, ON Location Type: Hybrid Business Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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Original job description
Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private clients, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction:
Robertson is seeking a skilled Business Analyst III to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rate: Starting form $52 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid
Business Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Job Responsibilities:
Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
Introduction:
Robertson is seeking a skilled Business Analyst III to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rate: Starting form $52 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid
Business Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Job Responsibilities:
- Partner with management to support the delivery of a product vision
- In alignment with the product vision, create and maintain a product backlog and continuously re-prioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value
- Continuously align with senior management on the product delivery roadmap, defined Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Products and release cadence
- Review performance analytics recommend and champion strategies to enhance the customer or end user product experience
- Participating in scrum or Kanban events (e.g. stand-ups, retrospectives), express new ideas for improving product value or delivery efficiency, sharing with leadership as appropriate
- Proactively engage established business process partners to ensure customers or end users are prepared for application changes and establish Day 2 processes
- Create a value-focused product backlog and continuously iterate, ensuring there are user stories scoped and prioritized
- Provide user story design, development and completion oversight; accepting / rejecting user stories based on the agreed upon Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria
- Manage delivery initiatives and oversee development team (pod) backlogs
- Proactively raise issues that impede the efficient delivery of customer-focused increments
- Responsible for defect management and prioritization
- Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for own business area / journey
- Ensure on-going strategic alignment with senior management, providing feedback as appropriate
- Consider development team and stakeholder feedback in backlog management, facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders representing competing priorities
- Understand the internal business and technical environment, proactively defining, aligning or integrating with relevant stakeholders, shared services control groups (or platform as appropriate
- Lead the submission and discussion on the Quarterly Business Review, with respect to their product
- Proactively manage business stakeholders to obtain inputs needed for product development in a timely manner
- Monitor the regulatory environment and partner with the senior management to consider changes to product strategy as needed
- Actively coordinate and engage in risk, quality and/or business testing management
- Empowered to make product delivery decisions, escalating to senior management as appropriate
- Actively communicate to business, technology and senior management regarding product changes and backlog priorities
- Single point of escalation for development team, providing guidance and decisioning as needed
- Work cohesively with peers to reinforce Agile processes
- Compile performance metrics and share with relevant stakeholders
- Define the OKRs in partnership with numerous stakeholders across the organization
- Protect the interests of the organization- identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high-risk activities as necessary
- Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
- Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
- Key subject matter expert professional role requiring substantial knowledge / expertise in a complex field and knowledge of broader related areas
- Accountable for specialized product development support based on sound product expertise and knowledge of Agile/Scrum processes, roles and practices
- Integrate knowledge of the enterprise sub-function’s or business line’s overarching strategy in developing solutions across multiple functions or operations
- Interpret internal/external business challenges and the industry environment, recommends course of action and best practices to improve products, processes or services
- Lead and integrate cross-function understanding within their own field of specialty, and /or projects with significant resource requirements, risk and / or complexity
- Solve or may lead others to solve complex problems; leads efforts or partners with others to develop new solutions
- Use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify solutions
- Impact the achievement of sub-function or business line objectives within the area they are accountable for
- Communicate difficult concepts; converts information to compelling business context and advice; influences and gains alignment across increasingly senior stakeholders
- Work autonomously as the lead and guide others within area of expertise
- Typically reports into a Product Group Owner
- Undergraduate degree in Business required
- 5-7 years of experience banking/ financial required
- 5-7 years of experience using Scrum/Kanban project management frameworks
- 5-7 years of JIRA and Confluence
- Understanding of Architectural Design
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification and project management experience considered an asset
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications or experience operating in scaled agile delivery considered an asset
Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Manage product delivery by maintaining and prioritizing the backlog, overseeing user stories and development team work, and aligning delivery plans with product vision and stakeholder priorities. Coordinate Agile processes, risk and testing activities, performance reporting, and communications while escalating delivery issues and supporting regulatory and business alignment.
Requirements
A bachelor's degree in Business and 5–7 years of banking or financial industry experience are required, along with 5–7 years of experience using Scrum or Kanban and JIRA and Confluence. Understanding of architectural design is required; CSPO certification, project management experience, and SAFe certification or scaled Agile experience are considered assets.
Skills
- Product Backlog Management
- Agile Product Delivery
- Scrum
- Kanban
- JIRA
- Confluence
- User Story Development
- Stakeholder Management
- Product Roadmap Planning
- Defect Management
- Risk Management
- Business Analysis
- Performance Analytics
- Regulatory Monitoring
- OKR Definition
- Architectural Design
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- Business Analysis
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Product Management
- Product Vision
- Product Backlog
- Product Roadmap
- Minimum Viable Product
- Minimum Marketable Features
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- JIRA
- Confluence
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Definition Of Done
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Architectural Design
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Defect Management
- Business Testing
- Performance Analytics
- Quarterly Business Review
- OKRs
- Regulatory Requirements
- Release Planning
- Backlog Prioritization