Business System Analyst Jobs

My large financial service client is looking to hire a contract BSA with strong SQL and data experience.

Location: Remote in either Toronto or Vancouver

6-month contract

Position title

Reporting to the Lead Technical Solutions the BSA is responsible for a wide range of duties at a strategic and tactical level. You will apply your industry and technical knowledge, and business acumen to solve a wide range of clients and business requirements. You will effectively manage advanced programs and resources to communicate successfully with our clients and other business units.

Who you are:

You take initiative, seeking out and owning opportunities to improve yourself, your team, and our business

You’re comfortable in a fast-paced environment, maintaining a keen attention to detail even when under pressure

You thrive in a collaborative environment, sharing your knowledge with your colleagues, and celebrating success as a team

You’re a life-long learner, staying current on market events, industry news, and innovative trends and technologies

You believe in sustainable financial strength, and you’re committed to long-term wealth solutions

You consider the impact of your actions on your team members, our partners, our clients, and the places where we live and work

What your day looks like:

Liaise with internal and external partners and stakeholders to analyze, define, document, and transform business requirements into functional and non-functional technical system requirements, interaction design, information architecture, and underlying data or processes requirements, including reports and data extracts requirements

Develop high level and detailed technical specifications in accordance with SDLC, security, governance and architecture documentation objectives

Work closely with members of the development, infrastructure and QA teams to review system requirements specification, and make sure that the implemented solutions meet customer expectations

Work with the application architect, business analysts, software vendor and other IT teams to design and implement downstream and upstream solution processes, interfaces or applications

Partner with infrastructure and business teams in order to design solutions and work with users to identify, diagnose and resolve business system issues or deficiencies proactively

Assists with implementation of vendor software releases and custom solutions into multiple environments

Provide time and cost estimates for customer service activities from inputs of different stakeholders

Develop and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with customers, business units, partners and service providers to drive projects and services being delivered successfully

Requirements

Your experience and skills:

Post-secondary degree/diploma in the field of computer science, engineering or information systems

5+ years of related experience working in a complex environment

Expert knowledge using Microsoft SQL Server and/or ORACLE, and Relationship Database principles

Knowledge of database design and file management techniques

Understand of .NET and/or JAVA applications development, web, mobile and integration technologies

Completion of the CSC/IFIC Operations course would be an asset

Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into data, application and operational requirements

Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with various levels of management, staff and external clients

Ability to work independently within a team, multi-task and manage competing priorities

Excellent knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws

Understanding of Services Agreements as related to commercial IT systems

Experience in supporting wealth management and/or credit unions business would be an asset

Fluent communication skills in English are required and bilingual skills in French are an asset