Senior Business Analyst in Toronto

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.

General Skills

• Exceptional communication skills to be able to lead and facilitate Joint Analysis and Design (JAD) sessions in order to assess clients' business problems/opportunities and document the business requirements.
• Involved in facilitating User Acceptance Testing and mapping requirements to System test plan.
• Ability to customize presentations and documentation to various user bases.
• Excellent team player with exceptional interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Familiar with working in a Project environment and all phases of the project and software development lifecycle in highly regulated industries.
• Understanding of Ontario Digital Service Standards and meeting Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
• Ability to prepare a variety of Business Analysis documents and artefacts such as Business Requirements Documents, Use Case Models, User Stories, Business Architecture, Business Process Workflow Diagrams, System Analysis, Non-functional requirements, Wireframes and Mockups, Business Cases, Business Rule definition, Requirements traceability.
• Experience with writing requirements for procurements.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Experience with a wide range of methods, tools and techniques for business analysis.
• Expert in information and data management including preparing data models and conceptual/logical/relational data modeling and data flow diagrams.
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions.

Business Analytical Skills and Competencies (50%)

• Responsible for gathering and documenting the business requirements and ensuring that the deliverables produced by the development effort conform to the business requirement.
• Leads and conducts business analysis to assess clients' business problems/opportunities and document the business requirements.
• Promotes business improvements through alternative service delivery approaches.
• 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 definition for assigned projects.
• Drives the user acceptance testing process, including preparation of acceptance criteria, review of the test plans and scenarios, review of test results as well as end-to-end testing.
• Develop and design deliverables, including integration requirements, data modeling, schemas, and design documentation.

Facilitation, Communication and Collaborative Skills (50%)

• Proven business leader with excellent facilitation skills and ability to lead requirements gathering sessions.
• Act as liaison for cross-functional teams, including vendor and business partners.
• Organize business and internal team meetings to identify and validate business and system requirements.
• Identify and quantify risks relevant to business and systems requirements, delivery timelines and quality.
• Coordinate and communicate various aspects of the project, including producing status reports, meeting minutes, issue logs, and informing cross-functional teams of decisions and progress.
• Monitor progress, resolve problems and report regularly to I&IT management.
• Schedule and mediate team meetings, follow up on issues, obtain concurrence from project stakeholders on completion of documented deliverables.

Must Haves:

• 10+ years as a BA.
• Lead meetings and manage stakeholders.
• Assist with data migration activities such as development of legacy extract specifications, data cleansing requirements and quality assurance testing.