Permanent Full Time

The Senior Business Analyst is a strategic partner responsible for leading the analysis of complex business challenges and opportunities, defining business and system requirements, and contributing to the design and delivery of technology-enabled solutions. The role works closely with business leaders, product owners, architects, developers, and project teams to ensure solutions align with organizational objectives, operational needs, and enterprise standards.

As a trusted advisor, the Senior Business Analyst drives business process improvements, supports transformation initiatives, facilitates informed decision-making, and ensures successful delivery of strategic programs. This role also provides leadership and mentorship to other analysts while promoting analysis best practices across the organization.

What you will do:

The Senior Business Analyst maintains a "business perspective" through all phases of the problem resolution and systems enhancement. Senior Business Analysts work closely with the business to understand their needs, opportunities and requirements. Working in a team environment, the Senior Business Analyst is responsible for:

- Build and maintain strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Act as a trusted advisor by identifying opportunities to improve business processes, operating models, and technology solutions.
- Lead analysis activities for large, complex, and cross-functional initiatives from conception through implementation.
- Facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, interviews,



and requirements gathering activities to understand business needs and objectives.
- Conduct current-state and future-state assessments and identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities.
- Build business cases, cost-benefit analyses, problems/opportunities, and investment recommendations to support decision-making.
- Define, document, prioritize, and validate functional and non-functional requirements.
- Present recommendations, findings, and project updates to leadership.
- Facilitate decision-making, issue resolution, and consensus-building among stakeholders.
- Develops and validates solution design with business stakeholders, articulating logical design alternatives and recommending appropriate solutions
- Partners with the QA team to ensure test strategies, plans and processes align with the business requirements and enables efficiencies in the work or testing process.
- Provides leadership by fostering and mentoring, an inspiring team setting
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

What you will bring

- Degree in related discipline (Finance Management Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science,



Computer Engineering, etc.) or equivalent combination of training and experience with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in a senior business analysis role.
- Strong understanding of business analysis methodologies, frameworks, and best practices.
- Extensive knowledge of finance processes and business operations, coupled with strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to partner effectively across diverse functional areas
- Proven leadership and internal consulting skills, with a commitment to customer service
- Exceptional verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Excellent understanding of project methodologies, processes and practices
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC)
- Experience working in Agile, Scrum, and/or Waterfall environments.
- Experience with enterprise applications, integrations, and data analysis
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that rely on a structured approach
- Proficient with data modelling techniques and tools, data mapping from source systems
- Strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure in an individual and team environment
- Communicates effectively in writing and verbally with focus on attention to detail

$90,800 - $110,400 annually. This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc). If you are selected to move forw

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