Business Analyst

We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Full-time
Title: Business Analyst
Term: 6-months – 35 hours/week
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2-days a week on-site
Job ID number: C1170

Brief description of duties:

• Liaising with multiple stakeholders from various business lines
• Prior work experience in creating dashboards and reports in Power BI and/or Tableau
• Prior experience with Collibra and understanding of Industry Data Quality process and practices
• Strong business acumen, data analysis, metadata documentation, and data quality controls skills specifically with respect to analyzing business process controls, sourcing and provisioning of lineage, and identifying data quality issues and proposing remediation steps
• Very detail oriented and skilled in summarizing and gleaning insights from large amounts of information
• Self-motivated to solve problems and able to work collaboratively with other team members
• Strong oral and written communication skills and comfortable presenting to a variety of audiences

MUST haves:

• 10+ years of previous Business Analyst work experience 2. 2-4+ years of experience with Power BI creating dashboards
• Strong technical education background, majoring in fields that require a high degree of analytical skills, such as Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Math, Statistics or related
• Good knowledge of business analysis processes and frameworks with experience documenting process and data flows using tools like Microsoft Visio and IBM Blueworks.

NICE to haves:

• Understanding of data concepts (metadata, data mapping, data quality, data modeling, etc.)
• Some knowledge of enterprise uses of data and general data flows within a large enterprise
• General understanding of data models, data relationships, mapping lineage and business rules
• Knowledge of computer programming and system architecture concepts
• Substantive knowledge of tools and software used to extract and analyze data
• Good knowledge of Excel for data management, calculations and data cleaning
• Experience with Tableau

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization
• Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction