Senior Business Analyst

Our client, a pension plan provider, is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst.

Responsibilities:

Analysis and Requirements

• Elicit, document and own business and data requirements using the full analyst toolkit: business requirements documents, user stories and acceptance criteria, business process models (BPMN), data flow diagrams, and source to target mapping specifications.
• Perform hands-on data analysis. You will query source and target systems yourself to profile data, investigate reconciliation breaks, validate transformations and prove that what was built is correct.
• Facilitate design sessions and workshops with investment, operations, risk, performance and finance stakeholders, and translate between business intent and technical design in both directions.

Capability and Solution Ownership

• Own a data capability end to end rather than a queue of requests. You will define the problem, shape the solution with engineers and architects, see it into production and stay accountable for whether it works.
• Turn multiple similar-looking requests into one extensible capability. Where stakeholders ask for a specific instrument or report, you are expected to identify the underlying capability gap and design for the general case so the next request is an extension, not a new build.
• Design for operability from day one. Every capability you deliver must have a defined support model, monitoring, controls and documentation so it can be run by an operations team rather than remaining with the engineers who built it.

Delivery, Testing and Quality

• Define and execute business test plans, including integration, performance and regression testing. Participate in defect triage, root cause analysis and resolution across environments.
• Write requirements and acceptance criteria that engineers build against and that vendors are held to, and review systems integrator deliverables against those criteria. Identify gaps and escalate where quality or completeness falls short.
• Operate across both Agile and waterfall delivery models, and keep scope, deliverables and timelines clearly documented and communicated.

Current State to Target State

• Build a working understanding of the current investment data and platform environment, including the processes, calculations and downstream consumers they support, and use that understanding to define what must be replicated, improved or eliminated in the target state.
• Support the current environment where doing so builds transition knowledge, including investigating data issues, tracing lineage through existing systems and validating that behaviour is preserved through migration.
• Become a subject matter expert on the platforms in your area across both current and target state, and be the person the business and the delivery teams come to for how the data actually behaves.
• Build and maintain data documentation including data dictionaries, lineage, metadata and knowledge base articles. Institutional knowledge that lives only in one person's head is treated as a defect.

Change and Adoption

• Apply change management principles throughout delivery, including early capture of stakeholder impacts, end user training, and communications, so that what we deliver is actually adopted.

Qualifications:

Investment Platform & Transformation Experience

• 7+ years as a Business Analyst or Data Analyst supporting investment platforms, investment accounting, order management, risk, performance, or data warehouse initiatives
• Experience working on large-scale transformation, migration, or data modernization programs

Advanced SQL & Data Analysis

• Expert-level SQL skills
• Write complex joins and aggregations
• Perform data profiling and reconciliation
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues independently
• Strong understanding of relational and dimensional data models

Business Analysis & Data Mapping

• Requirements gathering and stakeholder management
• Business process modelling
• User story creation
• Source-to-target mapping and data lineage documentation

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $90.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Toronto,ON.

À propos d'Aston Carter

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Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

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