Junior Business Analyst

Junior Business Analyst - ( 240003TT )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works to support operational excellence. The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. Our Functional Services Teams (FSTs) include Corporate Development, Finance, HR, HSSE, IT, Legal, Marketing/Communications, Practice Services and Real Estate and Procurement.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is currently seeking a Business Analyst, Projects, to join our team. Reporting to the Director Finance/Project Accounting Solution Delivery, this position is responsible for engaging with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to translate their business needs into system solutions that achieve desired outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Engaging with Business Process Leads to understand the business domain and current and future needs.
2. Analyzing current state business processes, identifying pain-points, and developing recommendations for process/system improvement.
3. Scoping business requirements and formulating a plan with the technical teams to optimally solicit detailed requirements to design and develop the solution most efficiently.
4. Conducting stakeholder workshops to elicit requirements.
5. Developing process models and other project deliverables using Confluence, Jira or Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
6. Assisting with technology assessment and selection.
7. Facilitating formal user acceptance testing and participating in testing activities such as test case creation, execution, and issue resolution.
8. Providing cross-team training, end user documentation and/or communication.
9. Adhering to Stantec’s Solution Delivery Framework and Change Management process requirements.
10. Supporting cross-functional programs and projects that may include Finance, IT, Marketing, Project Accounting, and other user communities.
11. Being an advocate for business process management.
12. Processing service requests, coordinating and participating in testing and implementation for large scale upgrades and integrations.
13. Assisting with day-to-day operational issues.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities & Credentials:

1. Strong customer service focus with demonstrated interpersonal skills.
2. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
3. Strong organizational, time management, problem solving, and analytical skills.
4. Highly self-motivated and directed.
5. Excellent team player demonstrated by being held accountable to other team members while also holding other team members to their tasks.
6. Proficiency in Microsoft office applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
7. Familiarity with ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).
8. Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.
9. Understanding and experience working with agile development practices would be a significant asset.

Education & Experience

1. Business Analysis experience working in a complex business environment.
2. Minimum of 5 years of experience in a related field. A/E industry experience in project reporting considered an asset.
3. Post-secondary degree; ideally related to Business or Management Information Systems.
4. An IIBA certification, or substantial progress towards one, would be a significant asset.
5. Experience eliciting and documenting high-level and detailed requirements, including use cases.
6. Experience in test planning, preparation, and execution. Experience with QA testing tools (qTest) a definite asset.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Primary Location: Canada-Alberta-Edmonton

Other Locations: Canada-Alberta-Calgary, Canada-Manitoba-Winnipeg, Canada-Nova Scotia-Dartmouth, Canada-Ontario-Waterloo, Canada-Ontario-Toronto, Canada-Ontario-Ottawa

Employee Status: Regular

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Travel: No

Schedule: Full-time

Job Posting: Oct 31, 2024, 5:00:24 AM

Req ID: 240003TT

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.