Senior Business Analyst

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to be responsible for business analysis activities on medium to large size projects. The role demonstrates advanced knowledge and ability, applying the competency in new or complex situations and guides other professionals. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

• The role is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery - planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support – for changes to Business Areas and Technology.
• Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities.
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates.
• Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to drive out business priorities.
• Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.
• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology.
• Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders.
• 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.

Common Agile BA activities:

• Product Backlog Management: Identify, document, and refine user stories to increase the degree of detail relating to acceptance criteria, assumptions, constraints, dependencies. Identify Business Rules and Data Elements associated with the user stories.
• Document test scenarios for user stories where necessary.
• Lead and facilitate collaborative refinement sessions with the squad (tech, product and design team) to gather feedback and ensure common understanding of requirements.

Understanding of Current State:

• Understand current state from a business perspective and to a lesser degree, from a technical perspective. Operational impacts will be understood in coordination with the Product Owner and Journey Operations Lead.
• Assist Product Owner in decomposing Epics into User Stories.
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation in Confluence to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards.
• Assist Product Owner’s in managing risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties.
• Provide guidance and support to build the capabilities of the junior BAs and participate in the BA Chapters, encouraging knowledge sharing and learning across the entire BA practice.

Sprint admin:

• Digital maintenance of sprint activities and user stories in JIRA.

Must-Have Skills:

• 8+ years of experience as a BA/BSA.
• 2+ years experience on an Agile project.
• Proven ability to gather Business requirements and Systems requirements independently.
• Experience in Online banking / Mobile banking.
• Strong knowledge of Requirements methodology (planning, elicitation, documentation) – both within Agile and Waterfall project frameworks.
• Excellent attention to detail, analytical thinking, and gap analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with user stories, business and system specifications, business context diagrams and business process maps.
• Experience working on large projects over $2 million.
• Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders; Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15–20 or more).
• Excellent collaboration skills, and highly adaptable.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Previous FI experience with lending products.
• Aside from BA, good experience with BSA set of skills.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute- Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA).
• Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis.

Soft Skills Required:

• Analytical skills.
• Experience working with project teams.
• Facilitation and elicitation skills.
• Communication skills, written and verbal.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline.

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