13 Aug
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Collabera
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Greater Toronto Area
13 Aug
Collabera
Greater Toronto Area
- The expected base salary range for this position is $70/Hr-$75/Hr , depending on experience, skills, and internal equity.
- The Company offers a total rewards package in accordance with all applicable federal, provincial, and local laws and requirements.
- Benefit eligibility and offerings vary based on role, employment status, and work location.
- For contractor positions, benefits are limited to those entitlements and protections required by applicable law, which may include (as applicable) vacation pay, public holidays, leaves of absence, and other legally mandated benefits or payments.
- We may use AI-enabled and/or automated tools to support parts of our recruitment process, including application screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communications.
- These tools are used to enhance consistency and efficiency.
- All hiring decisions involve human review and are not based solely on automated processing.
Position Overview:
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join the Digital team supporting Consumer Banking initiatives.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for leading business analysis activities across medium to large-scale projects, with a strong focus on requirements planning, elicitation, analysis, documentation, prioritization, and delivery within an Agile environment.
- This role will work closely with Product Owners, Technology, Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and user stories.
- The ideal candidate brings strong Business Analysis and Business Systems Analysis (BSA) capabilities, excellent stakeholder management skills, and hands-on experience within online/mobile banking or financial services environments .
- The role is part of a highly collaborative Digital BA practice consisting of 90+ Business Analysts and will also provide opportunities to mentor junior BAs and contribute to the broader BA community.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead business analysis activities for medium to large-scale projects and complex initiatives.
- Perform stakeholder analysis to identify impacted groups, responsibilities, and requirements.
- Develop requirements plans and accurate estimates while continuously improving estimation quality.
- Lead requirements prioritization and facilitate discussions to establish business priorities.
- Facilitate collaborative discovery, elicitation, refinement, and review sessions with diverse stakeholder groups.
- Gather, analyze, validate, and document detailed business and system requirements .
- Assist Product Owners in decomposing Epics into well-defined User Stories.
Create and refine User Stories, including:
- Acceptance criteria
- Business rules
- Data elements
- Assumptions
- Constraints
- Dependencies
- Perform story decomposition and story mapping to ensure requirements are appropriately defined.
- Develop business process models, scope models, business context diagrams, data requirements, and non-functional requirements.
- Conduct gap analysis and assess current-state processes from both business and, where appropriate, technical perspectives.
- Document test scenarios for User Stories when required.
- Apply requirements coverage analysis to establish traceability between scope, requirements, testing, and implementation.
- Build and maintain reusable requirements documentation in Confluence in accordance with enterprise standards.
- Support Product Owners with management of risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
- Manage and maintain User Stories and sprint-related activities in JIRA .
- Collaborate closely with Technology, Product, Design, Business stakeholders, and Journey Operations teams.
- Present requirements and facilitate sessions with large stakeholder groups, including groups of 15-20+ participants .
- Provide guidance and knowledge-sharing support to junior Business Analysts.
- Participate in BA Chapters and contribute to continuous improvement across the BA practice.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- 8+ years of professional experience as a Business Analyst / Business Systems Analyst.
- Minimum 2 years of experience working in Agile project environments .
- Robust experience independently gathering and documenting both Business and Systems requirements .
- Proven experience with requirements planning, elicitation, analysis, documentation, management, and validation.
- Strong knowledge of requirements methodologies across Agile and Waterfall frameworks.
Demonstrated experience with:
- Scope Modelling
- Business Process Modelling
- Data Requirements
- Business Rules Analysis
- Non-Functional Requirements
- User Stories
- Story Decomposition
- Story Mapping
- Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria
- Experience working on medium to large-scale projects, preferably $2M+ .
- Experience in online banking and/or mobile banking environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and gap-analysis skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to facilitate requirements sessions with large and diverse stakeholder groups.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across Business and IT teams.
- Highly adaptable with strong attention to detail.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, or a related discipline.
Technical Skills: Strong hands-on knowledge of:
- JIRA
- Confluence
- MS Office Suite:
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
Requirements documentation and modelling tools such as:
- Visio
- Mural
- Figma
Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
- Previous experience within a Financial Institution , particularly with lending products .
- Strong combination of BA and BSA/system analysis skills.
- Experience working on enterprise-level and mobile projects.
- API testing experience using Postman .
- Knowledge of current digital accessibility standards .
- CBAP certification.
- PMI-PBA certification.
- Master's Certificate in Business Analysis.
- Master's degree in a related discipline.
Soft Skills: The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking abilities.
- Excellent presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong facilitation and elicitation capabilities.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional project teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to problem solving.
📌 Business Analyst - Digital / Consumer Banking (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 Collabera
📍 Greater Toronto Area