Business Systems Analyst
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We’re looking for a Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Systems Analyst
Term: 4-Month to start
Location: Remote for now – Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Montreal, London and Winnipeg
Job ID number: C1313
Brief description of duties:
Portfolio Requirements, Design & Scoping
- Guides and facilitates the analysis for less complex products
- Elicits and validates business requirements
- Facilitates and actively participates in meetings, walkthroughs, and reviews of deliverables
- Develops functional requirements
- Develops and delivers training & support materials for affected stakeholders
Problem Solving & Analysis
- Performs analysis to determine impacts to products
- Validates requirements and proposed solutions to stakeholder’s satisfaction and translates those processes, needs, and requirements into related artifacts and documentation
- Troubleshoots moderate to complex problems to determine root cause, requiring analysis and exploration of options, recommending solutions, or preparing discussion for escalation
- Communicates with business stakeholders on technical components, risks, issues
- Ability to understand data requirements, standards, controls, modeling techniques
- Develops and validates solution design, product configuration, or package criteria with business stakeholders Quality
Quality Assurance
- Ensures overall testing efforts represent business and systems requirements in partnership with the QA team (where applicable)
- Develops and maintains test documentation, test strategy, review and supports testing outcomes as required
- Partners with developers and other team members to resolve defects, considering data and privacy requirements
- Develops and executes test cases, confirming test cases represent business requirements
- Ensures traceability of requirements across the application lifecycle
- Manages moderate complexity acceptance criteria
Continual Improvement
- Gains exposure to and learns new technologies, frameworks, and tools
- Evaluates and learns new analysis strategies, tools, and methods that provide business value
- Improves current practices and tools
- Adapts to organizational change, best practice and improvements across teams, including the effective implementation and adherence to analysis processes and practices and architectural directions
- Participates in audits, governance, and support activities
Customer focus
- Takes accountability for own and towards team deliverables
- Trains newer analysts in how to gather requirements and solve problems effectively
- Partners with product teams and/or architects to develop technical requirements and engineering/non-functional specifications 6. Technical Leadership
Technical Leadership
- Provides training to new or less senior professionals or cross-discipline practitioners on processes, tools, and approaches
- Shares knowledge and experience with members of the team to identify and share opportunities to improve the work, identify better ways of doing things
Required Capabilities
- Rapidly acquires new knowledge, learns new skills, and applies creative thinking to solve problems while understanding the organization’s vision, purpose, and values
- Adaptable to changing assignments and product outcomes Process and Prioritization
- Directs work of self through goal setting, time management, and planning
- Meets deadlines for work through the use of time management ▪ Identifies prioritization conflicts and works with PM’s, Program Managers, Senior Business Systems Analysts and leaders to resolve ▪
- Leverages practices to manage and simplify work, and use resources efficiently Attention to Detail
- Ensures accuracy and completeness of work to maximize quality, build credibility, and avoid re-work Decision Making
- Strong conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills ▪ Understands the costs and benefits of actions, and makes recommendations towards the most appropriate one, uses collaboration and judgment to form conclusions
- Seeks to understand business needs, and delivers high-quality service to the business
- Facilitates cooperation among peers and within the team, leveraging feedback to develop new strategies and approaches
- Builds effective relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders quickly and confidently, to positively influence outcomes
- Communicates issues clearly and effectively with stakeholders Business Relationship Management
- Seeks to understand business needs, and delivers high-quality service to the business while understanding the organization’s vision, purpose and values Motivation
- Is passionate about technology and the user experience demonstrates inner self-starter and is accepting of and open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge
MUST haves:
- 2-5 Years’ Experience
- University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, Commerce, Business Administration or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience Active pursuit of related industry certifications is considered an asset
Domain-based data modeling, information and data modeling, event definition and data mapping, inter-system data mapping, business and technical requirement elicitation, functional specifications. Experience in API, integration, and event-based product development. Experience working in an Agile product development team. Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, and Microsoft Office tools.
Job Features
Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
Business Systems Analyst | 2-5 |
Jira | 2-5 |
Confluence | 2-5 |
Integration services | 2-5 |