Senior Business Analyst with SDLC experience to work with a major financial services client- 15499

Senior Business Analyst with SDLC experience to work with a major financial services client- 15499

Location Address: Toronto or Waterloo (3 days onsite per week)

Contract Duration: 1 year (Possibility of extension & conversion)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Role Overview

• The Sr. IT Business Analyst position works closely with business and technical stakeholders, and vendors in evaluating business information systems, providing innovative IT solutions and preparing requirement specifications. This role works to identify system needs, analyze and assess impact of changes in business processes and provide advice on possible remedies. Liaises with systems development teams, business users, and vendors to ensure effective communication and better understanding of requirements.

Position Responsibilities:

• Elicit and analyze business requirements (new, change requests and production support)
• Coordinate the preparation of user specifications with business users.
• Identify the gaps and impact of the initiative and propose feasible solutions prior to implementation of the initiative.
• Conduct impact analysis on application changes to ensure that appropriate solutions are defined.
• Apply change management principles where appropriate in the process to effectively deliver solutions.
• Act as a liaison between the business users and IT delivery team on business and system requirements and issues.
• Assist in the coordination and management of projects from scoping of requirements to implementation.
• Assist in the development of user acceptance test strategy and scope.
• Continuously find ways and means to improve business process.
• Perform production systems support for business units as needed (e.g., reconciliations, issue resolutions.)
• Assist in process documentation and analysis whenever necessary.
• Provides guidance and coaching to other business analysts.

Required Qualifications:

1. 10+ years work experience with 7+ years of experience doing business analysis work

2. Knowledgeable in SDLC

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Has work experience in Banking or Financial industry

2. Proficient with MS Office automation tools and preferably with basic knowledge on SQL and/or PL/SQL Developer, JIRA, Confluence

Education: Graduate of Engineering, Math, Business Administration, Computer Science or other related fields