Business Analyst
Location Address: WFH – Toronto
Contract Duration: 6 months (Possibility for extension)
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9-5
Reason: backfill
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Data Models & Analytics – The primary role of Global Finance Technology is to work with the Bank's finance community to redesign/re-engineer finance processes to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. The unit is also responsible for developing and implementing Financial/MIS applications services to meet the changing needs of Finance and the Bank. These applications have an enterprise-wide user community, and are an integral part of Finance's performance measurement, reporting and control infrastructure.
Project: Support for finance technology. The candidate will be working on the IFRS project along with other ongoing projects, it will be split 50/50. Primarily projects related to GL conversion projects, taking sub diaries, and onboarding them to enterprise platform. Taking current GL and converting to Peoplesoft.
Candidate Value Proposition: Dynamic environment, fast growing, high demand group. Skill set can be used for further opportunities. Great opportunity for someone who is curious, interested in expanding knowledge base, great role to have because every project gives the opportunity to learn something new.
Typical Day in Role
– Gathering requirements on reporting, security hypercare, training – define scope of the project, build requirements, work with stakeholders, developers.
– Understand the requirements, and based on the requirements and knowledge of application being tested, the writing of test cases, steps for execution of the test cases
– Working with developers on the testing of the new reports and sharing the results of the test cases with the greater project teams. – Developers and end users so they understand
– Status summary weekly on results of testing
– Keep team updated frequently
– Learn new applications quickly
– Manage deliverables based on the SDLC
– Using agile based approach
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 4 + FI Business Analysis experience specifically with financial Reporting, or Accounting.
2) 4 Years – Quality Assurance Experience – have had hands-on experience with testing framework in a project environment.
3) Experience working on Agile based project environment
4) Excellent Communication Skills – Verbal and Written. Able to write a good BRD
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• BA certifications
• Orable BI, Smartview, Peoplesoft
• JIRA/Confluence experience
• Previous experience with IFRS an asset
Soft Skills:
1. Patience, able to provide support
2. Detail focused, provide training material, provide training to users
3. Adapt to changing environments flexible to accommodate.
4. Strong negotiation skills
5. Ability to influence others
6. Strong communication skills – both written and oral
Degrees or certifications:
Degrees: Bachelor's degree in business, ideally finance,
Certifications: CPA designation completed or in progress is preferred.
Accounting designation
Candidate Review & Selection
1 Step Process: 1 Microsoft Teams Interview
Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP
Additional Notes
– The candidate may need to provide support to others, experience providing support is ideal.
– Please note! This role is 85% BA – 15% QA. BA experience is most important, with a background in QA testing.