Senior Business Analyst

  • Toronto, ON
  • Posted 17 hours ago | Updated moments ago

Overview

On Site
$CAD $80 / hr
Contract - W2
Contract - 9 month(s)

Skills

Business Analyst

Job Details

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

  • Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
  • Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
  • Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.
General Skills:
  • Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client's business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
  • Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches.
  • Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with OPS Unified Project Candidateagement Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
  • Develops stXXgies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
  • Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
  • Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects.
  • Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders.
  • Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up.
  • Experience developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis.
  • Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement.
  • Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope.
  • Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  • A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
Business Analysis and Technical Skills 25%:
  • Experience leading and conducting business analysis for business projects to assess clients' business problems or opportunities, document the technical business requirements to meet the functional requirements.
  • Experience developing context diagrams, use cases and use case models.
  • Experience with custom development in cloud native systems and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
  • Experience creating systems diagrams and mapping integration specs.
  • Experience writing business cases and conducting options analysis.
  • Experience developing process maps.
  • Experience developing cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
  • Experience developing functional and non functional requirements, leading and facilitates in-depth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, business process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design, in order to create the technical framework/specifications for development of the business solution and/or infrastructure services or platforms.
  • Experience developing performance measures for a projects and lines of business.
  • Hands-on experience developing effective use cases and user stories.
Business Analysis:
  • Leads and conducts business analysis both on an ongoing basis and for business projects to assess clients' business problems or opportunities, document the technical business requirements to meet the functional requirements, ensuring alignment with the OPS project management and related methodologies.
  • Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative, cost effective service delivery approaches.
  • Conducts ongoing business analysis activities and analysis within all phases of the project life cycle.
  • Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies.
  • Oversees ongoing production support and configuration management.
  • Leads and participates in the RFP process with a focus on client requirements and evaluation of vendor responses.
  • Leads and facilitates in-depth workshops to gather requirements and create technical specifications.
  • Develops performance measures and conducts follow-up assessments.
  • Candidateages problem identification and resolution to ensure timely resolution of production problems.
Experience 25%:
  • Experience on a medium-sized project as a business analyst or functional consultant.
  • Experience with enterprise business architectural concepts and OPS standards.
  • Experience developing business cases from start to finish.
  • Experience with SDLC, software design, integration, user interface design, QA, risk management, BCP and DRP.
  • Experience conducting business analysis reviews and recommending options.
  • Experience providing technical leadership and functional analysis.
  • Knowledge of service delivery management, portfolio and project management.
  • Familiarity with I&IT cluster and corpoXX policies and technologies.
  • Understanding of client business goals and alignment with I&IT solutions.
  • Strong analysis and problem-solving skills to assess requirements and develop solutions.
  • Experience planning and leading analysis activities and ensuring quality solution recommendations.
  • Provides technical leadership, functional business analysis, and architecture expertise.
Communication Skills 20%:
  • Strong communication skills to prepare documentation including reports, reviews, and assessments.
  • Ability to present ideas clearly and maintain high levels of customer service.
  • Ability to communicate technical designs and development in a clear and user-friendly manner.
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