Business Analyst V

Job Title: Business Analyst V
Duration: 11 months (Possibility of extension)
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 4 days a week)

• Scope of Project: Legal document management implementation, data/document migration, metadata mapping, records-management dependencies and testing.
• Team Size/Culture: 5-6 ppl

Candidate Profile Details:

• Degree/Level of Education: Undergraduate degree, Preference given to candidates with Business Analysis Accreditation
• Years of Overall Experience: 3-5yrs 
• Preferred/Ideal Candidate Background: Senior business-analysis experience supporting complex enterprise system implementations involving data or document migration. Financial services, legal-operations or regulated-information experience is preferred. Role

Summary Of the Role:

• Senior Business Analyst able to lead diverse business, technology and vendor stakeholders through business, functional, non-functional, data and migration requirements; source-to-target mapping; requirements traceability; and migration/testing readiness for a legal document-management implementation.

Job Description:

• Lead, analyze, document, and manage business requirements throughout the life cycle of an initiative in alignment with the business needs and strategies.
  Customer:
• Lead, analyze, document, and manage requirements with stakeholders by applying a variety of techniques to probe, elicit, challenge, understand, and gain consensus on requirements, including business, data, metadata, migration, security/access, record-management and testing requirements.
• Create, validate and maintain source-to-target data, metadata and field mappings across source, document-management and matter-management platforms; identify unresolved fields and obtain owner decisions.
• Ensure business processes/systems impacted by requirements are analyzed and the acceptance criteria clearly demonstrate the changes to business process/systems to meet customer needs.
• Ensuring that requirements-related dependencies and constraints are documented by bridging communication between business and technology stakeholders
• Working with relevant stakeholders on defining acceptance criteria sufficiently for testing and supporting the development of test scripts and subsequent testing of developed solutions (as appropriate), including communication of issues and resolution.
• Translate future-state migration processes and control dependencies into clear requirements, decision records, acceptance criteria and testable outcomes.
• Own and maintain traceability from approved requirements through solution design, test scenarios, test cases, defects, results and business acceptance across applications, migration, integration, SIT and UAT testing.
• Lead business analysis for data/document migration planning, including source profiling, eligibility rules, migration scope, work packages, sequencing, dependencies and business readiness.
• Support migration dry runs and testing by defining representative data, expected outcomes, reconciliation controls, exception scenarios, duplicate/delta behaviour and evidence requirements.
• Elicit and document role, group, workspace and restricted-access requirements; support validation of entitlement and inherited-security designs.
• Act as a bridge among Legal Operations, business SMEs, Technology, architecture, quality engineering, records/retention stakeholders and external implementation vendors.
• Ensure timely notification and escalation of possible issues/problems while assessing options and recommendations for prompt resolution.

Shareholder:

• Effectively communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment to delivery framework, project scope and objectives.
• Apply analytical skills to effectively understand business problems, impacted stakeholders, and proposed solutions to ensure alignment to client's risk appetite.
• Identify, document, and actively manage material risks and issues related to requirements ensuring PM has awareness and escalating to appropriate leadership when necessary to ensure the timely and unimpeded progress of work.
• Promptly manage concerns from stakeholders and ensure timely and effective problem resolution.
• Support implementation and post-implementation planning and activities.
• Support Request for Information (RFI) or Request for Proposal (RFP) planning and activities, when required.
• Provides support/oversight and guidance in the delivery of requirements with focus on quality, reusability, scalability, and innovation.
• Adhere to the Client code of Conduct.

Employee / Team:

• Participating fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
• Support the team by continuously enhancing knowledge / expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team.
• Keep others informed and up to date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities.
• Contribute to the success of the team by willingly assisting others in the completion and performance of work activities; provide training, coaching and/or guidance as appropriate.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.

Breadth & Depth:

• Knowledgeable in business analysis, and delivery execution practices and standards
• Knowledgeable and acts as a conduit for business and user interaction with technology
• Leveraging domain, product, and systems knowledge, ensure business processes/systems impacted by the requirements are analyzed and the acceptance criteria are well understood and clearly demonstrate changes to business process/systems meet customer needs
• Identifies risks and impediments and leads problem resolution
• Leads business analysis for a complex, multi-workstream implementation with interdependent requirements, migration, metadata, testing, security and records-management deliverables; works under minimal guidance.
• Possesses discipline, rigor skills and subject matter knowledge to the requirements elaboration and validation process
• Supports the identification, maintenance and reporting of traceability of requirements
• Work performed under minimal management guidance and supervision
• Identify and lead problem resolution
• Reports to a Manager or Practice Lead

Experience and / or Education:

• Undergraduate degree
• Minimum eight years of progressive business-analysis experience, including at least three years supporting enterprise data/document migration, system implementation or integration.

Must-Have Hard Skills:

1. Lead end to end requirement gathering & documentation for assigned project(s)
   2.) Support Testing /Traceability of requirements from initiation to execution.
2. Experience translating data lifecycle, records retention/disposition and legal-hold obligations into business, migration and test requirements.
3. comfortable with both Agile /Waterfall delivery methodologies
4. Ability to drive project teams forward to ensure end to end requirements are captured and have traceability.
5. Ensure that requirement-related dependencies and constraints are identified & documented by bridging the communication between business and technology stakeholders.

 Nice-To-Have
1.) knowledge of Data lifecycle management
2.) Jira and confluence experience

Interview process: 2 rounds Virtual camera on 
  

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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. The pay rate for this position is C$62.00/hr.