Senior Business Analyst

Job title: Senior Business Analyst

Company: Robertson & Company


Job description: Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private client, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.Introduction: Robertson is seeking a skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our client.Contract Dates: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Range: $57.95 to $66 per hour
Business Hours: Monday to Friday (Hybrid)Job Responsibilities:

• Providing subject matter expertise on Wholesale/Retail Credit Risk data, data processes and management systems.
• Assisting in the system development and perform comprehensive testing end to end to ensure technology deliverable fulfill business requirement.
• UAT testing. Ability to perform detailed testing & document said testing procedures effectively.
• Supporting requirement gathering by extracting information from SAS, Python data process.
• Identifies and documents the business partners functional and data requirements based on a business process description to ensure that the final deliverable coincides with the context of the business operations.
• Manages and documents the translation of business needs into requirements to communicate to the project team activities, resources, and deliverables necessary to meet business objectives.
• Participates in investigations, interviews, and formal or informal requirements gathering sessions to understand stakeholder needs.
• Recognizes discrepancies between business needs and deliverables, when reviewing and validating requirements, and communicates these discrepancies to stakeholders to ensure that they understand and either accept these discrepancies or identify a need to change project direction.
• Analyses problems for senior management change management teams, and business partners to identify the approach and solution options for the given problem; this includes collaborating with project teams to resolve roadblocks, performing solution proof-of-concept (POC), and examining third party product offerings.
• Provides application design and development costing estimates to senior management that are used in determining business initiative feasibility and priorities, and/or used by the banks Project Managers for project planning.
• Reviews project documents (e.g., High Level Requirements Document [HLRD], High Level System Design Documents [HLSD], and application code) received from other Technical Specialists, Business Technical Specialists, and Project Managers to ensure quality, completeness, and adherence to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) documentation standards, as well as identifies synergies between project initiatives in order ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process.
• Provides business/technical and application expertise to senior management and project teams, including the areas of governance methodologies and processes, for purposes of ensuring the architecture and applications are consistent with the design framework, Enterprise/industry standards, and the bank’s strategic direction.
• Provides business/technical coaching to team members on design patterns, development processes, and application functions to improve their technical skills.
• Manages operational aspects of governance forums to ensure meeting productivity.
• Provides analytical support and insights.

Experience & Qualification Requirements:

• 5-7 years of data analysis experience – working on large data base
• Familiar with credit risk commercial lending data, PD/LGD/EAD model data and Commercial Financial products
• Strong experience with business system analysis in a complex data warehousing environment running on Netezza, IPS and Cloud
• Strong experience gathering business requirement from client groups and lines of business and converting these into functional specification documents
• Proficient using SQL statements to query data and perform data profiling, data verifications – 5-7 years
• Ability to do data modeling and perform data mapping
• Possesses solid business knowledge in Finance/Banking industry
• Experience with Netezza, SAS, Python, Cloud AWS

Personal Attributes:

• Detail-oriented
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Thorough in-depth skills on data model design and data analysis methodology
• Displays leadership skills to work with project managers and development team on project initiatives
• Quick learning skills
• Multitasking skills

****ALL CANDIDATES MUST COMPLETE A CRIMINAL AND CREDIT CHECK AS PART OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS****How to Apply: If you are a motivated professional looking to contribute to a leading team, please submit your resume outlining your qualifications and experience relevant to this role. Robertson & the clients we represent, value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We invite all qualified individuals to apply.Robertson & the clients we represent are equal opportunity employers, committed to diversity and inclusion. Robertson is a certified diverse supplier and actively seeks to foster a representative and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, Aboriginal status, or any other legally protected factors. We champion building a diverse and inclusive environment.

Expected salary: $57.95 – 66 per hour

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:32:30 GMT

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