SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST, DATA & ANALYTICS

Job summary

Lead requirements discovery and documentation for enterprise transformation, application development, and system integration initiatives, including analytics, reporting, data platforms, and finance systems. Coordinate business and technical stakeholders through solution design, testing, implementation, and user adoption, while supporting planning and mentoring junior analysts.

Job details

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST, DATA & ANALYTICS Need a someone to start ASAP. Location: downtown Toronto business core. Hybrid 2 day in office minimum. Market rate Salary + Toronto-based IT company in the financial services and fintech industry. Focused on technology consulting, cloud computing, integration solutions, and enterprise data and analytics. Looking for a Senior Business Analyst who will work closely with our project teams in GTA area to successfully deliver Application Development and System Integration projects. RESPONSIBILITIES ● Define business, process, reporting, integration, and system requirements for enterprise transformation initiatives including ERP, finance, and data platforms. ● Develop requirements strategies, priorities, epics and user stories. ● Lead requirements workshops and strategic discovery sessions with business leaders, subject matter experts, and technology teams to establish project objectives and priorities, business capabilities, operational requirements and measurable success criteria. ● Facilitate decision-making by identifying trade-offs, presenting recommendations, and building consensus across business and technical stakeholders. ● Develop reporting and dashboard mock-ups, wireframes, and visualization designs to communicate analytics requirements and target-state solutions. ● System integration specification analysis and documentation ● Elicit, analyze, and document reporting, analytics, KPI, and data integration requirements to support business decision-making. ● Partner with data engineering and reporting teams to define data requirements, mappings, and validation criteria for dashboards and enterprise reporting solutions. ● Facilitate meeting/interviews and communicate requirements to sponsors, stakeholders and project team members ● Verify the target solution and support the technology to ensure that the target system will meet the requirements ● Act as the functional lead and subject matter expert on the requirements throughout solution design, development, testing, and implementation activities. ● Develop test scenarios, support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and validate analytics solutions to ensure business requirements and reporting needs are met. ● Create user documentation, support adoption of analytics solutions, and provide guidance to business users on effective use of dashboards and reporting tools. ● Assist in work effort estimation and planning ● Help mentor and support junior Business Analysts and other team members REQUIREMENTS ● Minimum 7 years' experience in Information Technology in agile environments with requirements strategies, product ownership, preferably supporting enterprise analytics, reporting, SaaS platforms, data integration, or digital transformation initiatives. ● At least 5 years’ experience of business and systems analysis in the Financial Industry ● Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, Mathematics or Business ● Agile certification (CSPO, CSM, CSP, PMI-PBA, CBAP, or equivalent) considered an asset ● At least 3-years' experience of delivering projects using a true Agile/Scrum methodology ● Strong team player ● Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. ● Strong business and IT knowledge and experience in the Banking and Financial Industries. ● Experience in requirement management and planning, defining user stories and test criteria. ● Experience in facilitating sessions with business and technical stakeholders for requirements elicitation or JAD Sessions. ● Experience gathering requirements for reporting, dashboards, analytics, and KPI development. ● Experience translating business requirements into data visualization mockups and dashboard designs. ● Ability to collaborate with data engineers on data integration, transformation, and data modelling requirements. ● Experience working with enterprise SaaS platforms such as Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or similar systems would be considered an asset. ● Strong SQL skills with the ability to analyze data, validate requirements, and support reporting and analytics initiatives.

What you’ll do

Lead requirements discovery and documentation for enterprise transformation, application development, and system integration initiatives, including analytics, reporting, data platforms, and finance systems. Coordinate business and technical stakeholders through solution design, testing, implementation, and user adoption, while supporting planning and mentoring junior analysts.

Requirements

Requires at least seven years of IT experience, including five years in financial-industry business and systems analysis and three years delivering projects using Agile/Scrum. A bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, or business is required, along with strong SQL, requirements facilitation, analytics and dashboard design, and data integration skills.

Listed skills

• Data visualization · Preferred
• SQL · Preferred
• Scrum · Preferred
• Reporting · Preferred
• Agile · Preferred
• Business analysis · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Business Analysis
• Requirements Management
• Agile
• Scrum
• SQL
• Data Analytics
• Reporting
• Dashboard Design
• Data Integration
• Data Modeling
• User Stories
• User Acceptance Testing
• Stakeholder Facilitation
• System Integration
• Financial Services
• Data Visualization

Job areas

• Data & Analytics
• Technology
• Software
• Consulting
• Finance & Accounting