Business Analyst
HRBrain
CONTRACT
Canada
Posted 2 months ago
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Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid, once a week onsite
Job ID number: C1236
Brief Description of Duties:
- Works with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies (BAs, developers, PMs, QAs, end users, traders, financial engineering)
- Gathers requirements from business units and translates those to programmers and developers
- Design test plan and test cases
- Work with users and development team to execute the plan to make sure deliveries are in good quality
- Prepares cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on system implementation
- Demonstrates an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities
- Supports one or more highly complex business processes
- Works on multiple projects as a project team member
- Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs
Must Have Skills:
- Experience in a relevant capacity as a BA or BSA
- Previous experience within capital markets
- Strong analytics skills on numbers and data, with strong hands-on experience writing SQL queries to analyze data and derive business or technical requirements.
- Strong demonstration of project management skills in recent assignments (to handle diverse projects, often times simultaneously, and meet aggressive deadlines)
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Previous exposure to OTC trading applications
- Deeper knowledge of modelling IR swaps products
- Basic knowledge of programming languages in order to comprehend reading code and basic functions (Shell Script, Python, and/or Java)
Soft Skills:
- Ability to create business solutions that increase competitive advantage
- Ability to exercise good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Ability to solve technical problems/ processes and understand complex details
- Ability to increase operating efficiency with produce high quality technical solutions
- A high level of interpersonal and verbal communication skills necessary to relate to other people at their systems knowledge level
- Ability to analyze complex situations and problems and do the necessary research using multiple sources of information to arrive at innovative solutions
Job Features
Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |