Business Analyst / Business Systems Analyst

Job Title: BA/ BSA

Location Address: Hybrid (1x a week), Toronto

Contract Duration: 6 months

Extension: Possible

FTE: Possible

Typical Day in Role

• Design test plan and test cases
• Work with users and development team to execute the plan to make sure deliveries are in good quality
• Works with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies (BAs, developers, PMs, QAs, end users, traders, financial engineering)
• Prepares cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on system implementation
• Gathers requirements from business units and translates those to programmers and developers
• Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs
• Demonstrates an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities
• Supports one or more highly complex business processes
• Works on multiple projects as a project team member

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• Strong demonstration of project management skills in recent assignments (to handle diverse projects, often times simultaneously, and meet aggressive deadlines)
• 10+ years’ experience in a relevant capacity as a BA or BSA
• Strong analytics skills on numbers and data, with strong hands-on experience writing SQL queries to analyze data and derive business or technical requirements.
• 2+ years previous experience within capital markets

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Basic knowledge of programming languages in order to comprehend reading code and basicfunctions (Shell Script, Python, and/or Java)
• Deeper knowledge of modelling IR swaps products
• Previous exposure to OTC trading applications

Soft Skills:

• Ability to solve technical problems/ processes and understand complex details
• Ability to create business solutions that increase competitive advantage
• Ability to increase operating efficiency with produce high quality technical solutions
• Ability to exercise good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions