Contract
Senior Business Analyst
Posted on 09 November 23 by Siobhan Scott
- Toronto, ON
- $ - $
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Job Description
What is the opportunity?As a Senior Business Analyst in the Trade Compliance IT team, you will execute all aspects of requirement delivery and data analysis- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, and requirements management. You will be a part of a multi-disciplinary scrum team, working closely with requirements stakeholders to make decisions about requirements approach – requirements deliverables, activities, effort estimates and will recommend best courses of action.
What will you do?
• Elicit functional and system requirements for Trade Compliance projects for Capital Markets and Wealth Management
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of details and accuracy of estimates
• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using Agile methodology
• Define practical user experiences, including storytelling, personas, process flows and interactions
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards
• Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation
• Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies.
• Interact with source systems that will provide data for trade, market, client and reference data for the application.
• Manage data acquisition and data mapping activities.
• Lead detailed requirements and specifications phase identifying, tracking, escalating and/or resolving business systems issues.
• Address and clarify specifications for business partners on data mapping related issues.
• Work with the ETL team, developers, Vendor consultants and numerous data sources to gather data requirements and mapping specifications.
• Create mapping specifications from various data sources and file formats to a vendor data model.
• Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies.
• Develop detailed plans and accurate estimates for completion of the data mapping specifications and testing activities.
• Provide BSA support to development team during development, testing and implementation.
• Participate in implementation planning, data preparation and post implementation validation.
What do you need to succeed?
Technical Skills
• 5+ years of experience with business systems analysis and software development.
• Expertise in data mapping and creating data mapping specifications.
• Familiarity with ETL processes
• Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business rules for processing data.
• Expertise in test planning, test case preparation and testing of applications and data mapping.
• Familiarity with SQL database and experience with scripting languages (SQL)
• Ability to understanding of data base models for data mapping.
• Experience in working with large projects with multiple data sources and system interfaces.
• Strong business system analysis fundamentals and documentation skills
• Experience with software development methods and life cycle.
• Expertise in coordinating business analysis activities during all phases of the project.
• Ability to work with a global business group and requirements
• Expertise in managing various stakeholder expectations in delivering project deliverables.
Business Knowledge
• Knowledge of global securities industry and products
• Advanced knowledge of North American and international securities trading and data related to complete trade life cycle.
• Knowledge of capital markets compliance is an asset.
• Knowledge of financial industry and functions.
Core Behaviors:
• Effectively communicates and builds relationship with team members, stakeholders and business partners in order to complete deliverables.
• Ability to develop quality solutions for business problems.
• Maintains client expectation regarding quality and timelines
• Creative problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, detail oriented project environment
• Works well in a team and supports team members and users
• Maintains a positive attitude and gets things done.
• Strong customer service, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills