Business System Analyst (Toronto)

Business System Analyst (Toronto)

01 Nov
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Proviso Consulting
|
Toronto

01 Nov

Proviso Consulting

Toronto

Story Behind the Need

- Business group: The Digital Engineering Operations team
- Project: The Digital Engineering Operations team is responsible for the production support and operation of the Bank’s retail Digital Channels (Client OnLine and Mobile Banking); Online brokerage; and related production applications.
- We are an energetic team and are looking for someone who as enthusiastic about raising customer’s Digital Channels expectations and experience

Candidate Value Proposition:

- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of a great team culture, within a team works together well; gain exposure to different areas of the bank, not only in technology, but different product lines, vendors; there is a chance to explore interests and work towards them.
- Working in Client digital/digital banking puts you at the forefront of the field and there is visibility – successes and challenges are visible to the team and can help define a career path.

Typical Day in Role:

- The incumbent is responsible for the maintenance, support and change control of Bank’s technology supporting digital channel operations.
- She/he will part of a team of that will be responsible for incident/problem management of Client Online brokerage, Mobile brokerage and related production change activities.
- The incumbent will perform a liaison role and ongoing interaction between various units including, but not limited to:

Canadian Banking;

- Client Digital
- Technology partners
- Customer facing staff
- QA departments
- Vendors
- Product groups
- Business lines
- This position will be focused on leadership, building knowledge base, managing various vendor relationships and the customer impact associated with scheduled and unscheduled production events. Please be aware that on a rotation basis, there will be responsibilities outside of traditional working hours and compensation will be provided.
- The team dynamic and work workplace will be rewarding, and office hours can be flexible.

Responsibilities:

- Create an environment in which your team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to risk and compliance
- Willingness to work outside of the traditional work week and requires continual shifting of priorities. The role requires attention after hours and on call support
- Assist in the development of processes designed to report,



analyze and resolve problems with the objective of mitigating the associated operational, reputational, financial, and regulatory risks.
- Demonstrate leadership abilities and collaborate effectively with various technology and product partners.
- Be curious as the skill set and product knowledge will be ever evolving
- Must be versatile to adapt to a dynamic environment, balance simultaneous priorities and make quick and sound decisions under pressure

Skill that will enable you to succeed:

- Excellent knowledge of incident and problem management
- Experience working on call 24/7 including weekends performing L2 or greater application support
- Experience supporting mission critical tier 1 applications such as payments, trading and authentication within banking, wealth management, capital markets, insurance organizations.
- Familiarity with Investment Management Solutions encompassing portfolio management, reconciliation, settlement, equities/fixed income/ derivative trade booking, account management
- Drive recovery efforts in collaboration with technology, vendor and product owner stakeholders
- Apply sound SRE practices to ensure monitored applications adhere to SLOs
- Strong business analysis skills towards documenting operational processes, creating knowledge base and standardization of work
- Contribute deep analysis to root cause analysis and post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence and achieve resiliency
- Strong logical thinking in understanding end to end use cases, as well as mapping them to system flows
- Strong ability to articulate meaningful client impact statements to a broad audience
- Curious and experimental mindset to drive innovation amidst uncertainty
- Effective communication and diplomacy skills are required to liaise between groups of varying technical expertise and interests.
- Provide support towards maintenance and release activities including patching, DR tests, certificate renewals, OS upgrades etc.
- Familiarity with relational databases and scripting including SQL, shell scripting, UNIX/ Linux
- Working knowledge of Service Now, JIRA and Confluence or other enterprise support platforms

Must Have Skills:

- 10+ years experience working in a related IT field and/or supporting business




- 2+ years supporting high critical business functions such as trading, payments or business functions / investment use cases within a Canadian financial institution
- 2+ years experience in performing SQL queries / reports or Database administration
- 2+ years utilizing performance and capacity management tools such as Dynatrace, Kabana, AppDynamics, Splunk, CA Introscope & Datadog, Gomez or New Relic
- 5+ years in an application support capacity. This will include incident and problem management.
- Experience or strong personal interest in wealth management, personal finance, investing, capital marketing.

Nice to haves

- Experience within a major Canadian financial institution.
- Experience in order routing vendors such as Broadridge, Fidessa FIX gateway or IRESS
- 2 + years experience with enterprise collaboration tools: JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Service Now.
- Some familiarity with Dynatrace
- A strong understanding of microservices deployed within Cloud computing platforms – AWS, Kubernetes / Docker; GKE; Azure PCF is an asset
- Background in user interface testing including desktop web, mobile web, Android and iOS
- NOTE: Candidates Need to be OK to work on call on a rotation basis – on weekends/evenings as well

Soft Skills:

- Strong logical thinking in understanding end to end use cases, as well as mapping them to system flows
- Curious and experimental mindset to drive innovation amidst uncertainty
- Effective communication and diplomacy skills are required to liaise between groups of varying technical expertise and interests.

Degrees or certifications:

- Post-secondary degree in a related field (technical or business)
- Completion of the Canadian Securities Course or CFA is nice have

Best Vs average:

- Ideal candidate has a curious mindset who asks probing questions, helps in growth when doing incident management, has a strong customer focus with understanding of how work impacts the customer; strong in incident management, supporting wealth management user journeys; ability to communicate the customer impact concisely and tie back to system problem and vice versa (e.g. trying to understand why system broken as am impact of a broken customer journey)

Selection process:

- 1 round – with HM – 1 hour – MS Teams Video Interview – video on required – behavioural – business and technical questions
- Potential 2nd round in-person interview if needed.

Job Details

15065

Contract

11 months

Toronto

Recruiter

Komal

📌 Business System Analyst (Toronto)
🏢 Proviso Consulting
📍 Toronto

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