Please send your resume at [email protected] if you are interested in this 06 month contract with Government of the Northwest Territories with a possibility of extension, If you are not interested, please feel free to pass it in your network for anyone looking for work.

Job Title: RQ00106 - Business Analyst - Student Financial Assistance

Duration: 2026-10-01 - 2027-03-31

Working Status: Remote (The work must stay within Canada)

Location: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Project Description The Government of Northwest Territories (GNWT) is undertaking a capital Information Technology (IT) initiative to modernize and enhance business processes, technology infrastructure, digital services, and/or enterprise applications. The initiative is intended to improve operational efficiency, service delivery, data quality, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder experience.

GNWT requires an experienced Business Analyst to support the planning, analysis, design, implementation, and transition phases of the project. The Business Analyst will work closely with business stakeholders, project team members, technical resources, vendors, and project governance bodies to ensure business needs are accurately identified, documented, validated, and translated into effective technology solutions.

The project the business analyst will work on is the replacement of the Student Financial Assistance (SFA) Program. The SFA program relies on an outdated and unsupported Loan Management System that can no longer meet operational, compliance, data integrity, and service delivery requirements, exposing the GNWT to increasing financial, operational, and reputational risk. Investment in a contemporary Loan Management System is required to replace the current platform, in order to improve operational efficiency and oversight, as well as ensure the long-term integrity and sustainability of the program.

MANDATORY

- 7+ years of relevant experience in a business analyst role
- 5+ years working in an IT or software development environment




- 2+ years experience working within a government
- 2+ years experience with financial loan systems

Nice to have

- 2+ years' Experience with Financial loan systems
- Experience working with the department of Education
- Certification in recognized business analysis framework, such as BABOCK
- Experience implementing Complex IT case management systems

Responsibilities could include but not be limited to:

- Experience with financial workflows and ERP/accounting integration
- Experience managing bodies of requirements for large custom software suites
- Experience with business process improvement techniques and tools
- Experience with gathering requirements for the design of Business Intelligence products and dashboards
- Experience interfacing with developers, translating business requirements into technical features and use cases
- Experience working on options analysis for large capital investments, especially in the public sector
- Experience in the design of identity, privacy, authentication or security service
- Plan and coordinate business analysis activities, including stakeholder identification, requirements management, and traceability.
- Engage stakeholders through interviews, workshops, consultations, and facilitated sessions to gather and validate business needs.
- Document and analyze business, functional, non-functional, reporting, security, and compliance requirements.
- Assess current-state business processes and identify gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop future-state business processes, workflows, user stories, use cases, and supporting documentation.




- Work with technical teams and vendors to ensure proposed solutions align with approved business requirements and project objectives.
- Support change request assessments, impact analysis, solution design reviews, and decision-making activities.
- Assist with test planning, test scenario development, user acceptance testing, and validation of business requirements.
- Support implementation readiness, training materials, business procedures, deployment activities, and transition to operations.
- Contribute to project closeout by confirming requirements completion, documenting lessons learned, and supporting final business analysis deliverables.
- Proposed Approach/ Understanding of Work
- Candidates must respond to the following questions to demonstrate their understanding of the work and the applicability of their experience. Your experience should be cited as specifically as possible, although company and product details are not required.

Please upload the response to these questions in a separate attachment.

1. Describe a time when you worked as a business analyst for a complex IT software implementation. Please state if the software was a SAS, COTS or custom. What were some of the unique challenges of this sort of implementation?
2. How would you approach developing requirements for a reusable, enterprise solution - that might be used by 10 different business units with similar needs. What would you do differently than if you were working with just a single business unit?
3. Describe a time when you worked on requirements and business process design for a business process involving approvals, financial integration, accounting, and similar highly regulated, sensitive transactions. What are some special risks, issues, considerations and techniques from a business analysis perspective?
4. What experience do you have working in the Department of Education within the Canadian Public Sector
5. Please explain your experience working with financial loan systems.

📌 Business Analyst (Canada)
🏢 Amyantek
📍 Canada