*Contract to Perm* - Senior Business Systems Analyst to support a Front Office - facing technology initiative - 40646

*Contract to Perm* - Senior Business Systems Analyst to support a Front Office - facing technology initiative - 40646

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto- 1 day onsite/week - Friday - subject to change

Subject to change: 3-4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: 6 months (Must Convert to Perm After Assignment)

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

FTE Salary: 100-130K

Story Behind the Need

Business group: Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers bank’s Corporate, Investment Banking, and Capital Markets businesses.

Project: GBME is searching for a Technical Product Analyst / Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to support the delivery of a specific Front Office-facing technology initiative. The role sits between trading desks and engineering teams and is responsible for translating business requirements into executable user stories, validating delivered functionality, and ensuring the solution meets agreed business outcomes.

The team is building an asset class-agnostic transaction master platform, designed to:

• Capture trade information across asset classes

• Generate real-time position views

• Support regulatory requirements (e.g., Reg SHO)

• Enable bank-wide position visibility (initial focus on equities)

• Integrate with Instrument Master, OMS/EMS, and UI systems

The successful candidate will own delivery of a module/function end-to-end, from ambiguous requirements through to validation and release.

Typical Day in Role:

• Partner with Trading, Product, and Technology stakeholders to elicit and clarify requirements, resolving ambiguity and confirming expected system behaviour

• Translate requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting delivery documentation

• Define user acceptance tests that reflect agreed business scenarios and edge cases

• Execute automated tests where available and manual tests where automation is not feasible

• Collaborate closely with developers to validate implementation against requirements, raise defects, and confirm fixes

• Troubleshoot issues by reviewing test results, logs, and data outputs, and engage developers with clear, actionable findings

• Support release activities, including validation of delivered functionality and issue triage during rollout

• Maintain ownership of assigned deliverables through the full delivery lifecycle, from requirement definition to post release validation

• Requirements discovery and clarification with stakeholders across Trading, Product, and Technology

• User story creation, refinement, and prioritization in Jira

• Definition of acceptance criteria and test scenarios aligned to trading workflows

• Functional and regression testing, including execution of automated and manual test cases

• Integration analysis with Trade Origination, OMS/EMS, and downstream systems

• Data mapping and validation across internal schemas and external interfaces

• Day to day collaboration with development teams to interpret requirements and validate delivered functionality

• Participation in design walkthroughs, data flow reviews, and implementation reviews as required

Candidate Value Proposition:

Opportunity to work on front office-facing systems supporting:

• Equity derivatives

• Prime services

• ETFs

• Group Treasury

Build functionality from the ground up, owning the full lifecycle of a module

High exposure to trading desks and real-time decision-making workflows

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1. 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Technical Analyst, or BSA within capital markets, with strong domain knowledge in cash equities

2. Demonstrated ability to translate high level business requirements into clear, testable technical specifications and user stories

3. Intermediate Python proficiency, with hands on experience executing and troubleshooting scripts or test workflows independently

4. Experience working across all phases of the SDLC in an agile delivery environment, using tools such as Jira and Confluence

5. Experience with SQL (intermediate) with ability to work with querying data sets (out joints, inner joints, unions, case queries)

6. Experience with end to end trade workflows across Front, Middle, and Back Office systems

7. Ability to define acceptance criteria and validate with a tool (e.g. GUI) - functional and integration testing

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience working with APIs, integration patterns, and event-driven or near real-time systems

• Experience with OMS/EMS or trade origination platforms

• Exposure to equity derivatives, ETFs, portfolio swaps, or portfolio management workflows

• Ability to create or interpret data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and solution design artifacts

• Experience with BDD-style testing (e.g., Gherkin) or Python-based test automation frameworks

• Familiarity with financial messaging standards (e.g., FIX - basic understanding sufficient)

• Experience supporting cross-functional deliveries spanning Front, Middle, and Back Office systems

• Experience with UI design tools (e.g., Figma) and UI-related workflows

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Education:

Bachelor’s

Best VS. Average Candidate:

The successful candidate will be delivery focused, technically credible, and comfortable working directly with trading desks and developers in a fast paced environment. This role emphasizes requirements execution, testing ownership, and day to day delivery, rather than broad process improvement initiatives.

Core is delivery - how to understand delivering a given function vs maintenance and support

Comfortable working in an Agile environment and with ambiguous requirements, strong problem solving mindset

Candidate Review & Selection - Interview Process

2-3 rounds - with pre-screening questions conducted by suppliers ahead of submission, please include candidate answers on sub*

MS Teams Video Interviews

1st - 45 minutes with HM and Dev team representative

2nd - 45 minutes for team fit - with BAs/Devs

3rd - Panel with GBME stakeholders