Business Analyst

Exciting Business Analyst Opportunity in Toronto! Join our Team and Showcase your Combined Experience as a Business Analyst, Previous experience with regulatory & business projects, and Proficiency in MS Project Plan/PowerBI, Excel & MS Office! If you are interested or know someone who would be a great fit, reach out to us today and refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: 6 months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (1-2 days/week)
Job ID number: C1227

Brief Description of Duties: 

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work for a complex business line, on a high visibility project. Will have visibility on settlement of various equity derivative projects.

Typical Day in Role

• Communicating with multiple stakeholders to aid in the implementation of the new T+1 settlement project
• Working with stakeholders across Canada and the US
• Conduct proper documentation
• Gathers requirements from business units and translates those to programmers and developers
• Leverage knowledge of equity products to drive success of project
• Working in an Agile environment
• Work closely with stakeholders within all business functions to assess the current and future states, perform gap analyses, derive business requirements, and design solutions that meets business and regulatory needs.
• Provides expert knowledge of cross-functional and business processes.
• Provides support production issues

Must Have Skills:

• Experience as a BA, including experience with documentation, ability to create workflow diagrams, business requirements, etc.
• Experience with equity derivative products within capital markets (stocks, OTC Options, listed options, structured products)
• Testing/automation experience using both Excel and SQL.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders (front to back office within capital markets: developers, traders, etc.). Back-office exposure is most critical, although the role requires some exposure on collaboration with the front office to understand requirements.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Ability to participate in programming or scripting for automated testing is an asset
• Advanced experience with SQL and databases is an asset
• Jira and Confluence experience is an asset

Soft Skills:

• Able to document and clearly communicate with stakeholders
• Team player