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Senior Business Analyst

  • Location: Montréal, QC
  • Project Type: Information Technology (IT)

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Montréal

Duration: 12 months

Our client, a leading financial institution in Montréal, is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to provide guidance and support to build the capabilities of the junior BAs. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

You will be responsible for business analysis activities on medium to large size projects. The role demonstrates advanced knowledge and ability, applying the competency in new or complex situations and guides other professionals. The role is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support – for changes to Business Areas and Technology.

  • Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities.
  • Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates.
  • Lead various Agile ceremonies, alongside the Product Owner
  • Manage risks, assumptions, and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties.
  • Lead & facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.
  • Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards in Confluence.
  • Prepare requirements for review applying various communication techniques and lead requirements walkthrough.
  • Work collaboratively with Product, Strategy and the UI/UX Design team, to design and build application UI pages.
  • Provide ongoing requirements/build/testing support to the developers and QA team.
  • Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation.
  • Provide consulting services to business partners on new initiatives.
  • Continually enhance skills and build knowledge in all aspects of the organization, the business, and information technology
  • Experience working on Digital (Online and Mobile) banking projects

Must Have Skills:

  • Minimum 8-10 years professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment. Expert at requirements gathering, documentation, testing and developing high level plans.
  • Proven experience in Agile methodology
  • Proven ability to gather Business and Systems requirements independently, having strong business analysis and systems analysis skills.
  • Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
  • Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders; Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15–20 or more).
  • Excellent collaboration skills, attention to detail, gap analysis, and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time. Experience working on medium to large projects – over $2 million.
  • Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modeling tools (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)
  • Solid understanding of system integration concepts and APIs
  • Comfortable analyzing payloads (JSON/XML) and mapping data elements to requirements
  • Strong experience in both business and technical analysis, with the ability to bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions.
  • Experience in requirements elicitation techniques such as Document analysis, Interviews, facilitated workshops, Observation, Prototyping, Focus groups, Surveys

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Prior experience in enterprise level and mobile projects
  • Experience with Orchestrators, APIs, mid-tier services
  • Knowledge of current Accessibility standards
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute –Professional in Business Analysis Certification (PMI – PBA)
  • Agile certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or similar.
  • French

Soft Skills Required:

  • Communication skills, written and verbal
  • Analytical skills
  • Experience working with project teams
  • Presentation skills
  • Facilitation and elicitation skills

Education:

  • Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis

FP Inc. is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. In accordance with the requirements set out in the Employment Standards Act, FP Inc. hereby declares that AI is utilized in the screening process for this position. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities, and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.