Senior Business Analyst

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid with on-site and work-from-home days included | Montreal

Duration: 12 Months

Our client, a leading financial institution in Montreal, QC is looking for a Business Analysis - Business Analyst - IT - Advanced to build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation in Confluence to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in the role:

• 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 relationships between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation.

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience as a BA/BSA
• 2 years + experience on an Agile project
• Proven ability to gather Business requirements and system 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
• Minimum 8-10 years of professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment.
• Proven experience in Agile methodology
• Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
• Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modelling tools (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Previous FI experience with lending products
• Aside from BA, good experience with the BSA set of skills.
• Prior experience in enterprise-level and mobile projects
• Past testing experience in API using Postman
• Knowledge of current Accessibility standards

Soft Skills Required:

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

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline
• Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute-Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA).

FP Inc. is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. In accordance with the requirements set out in the Employment Standards Act, FP Inc. hereby declares that AI is utilized in the screening process for this position. The hourly compensation range for this role is $60/hr -$76/hr. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities, and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.