Business Analyst

Role overview

Core responsibilities

• Elicit, document, and validate requirements with project teams, business stakeholders, and vendors.
• Facilitate workshops, map current and future processes, and maintain requirements traceability through configuration and testing.
• Assess vendor capabilities against requirements, identify gaps, and document configurations.
• Write test plans and scripts; coordinate system testing and business user acceptance testing.
• Support data migration, mapping, and validation; create training materials and deliver training.
• Support change management, coordinate troubleshooting, and provide transition support through go-live.
• Follow ITIO methodology and BA templates, store deliverables in project SharePoint, and document decisions.

Lab safety platform

• Onboard into completed requirements and planning artifacts and confirm them with the vendor.
• Drive requirements validation and configuration decisions for a vendor-led implementation.
• Lead data migration and data mapping conversations with business stakeholders.

Financial planning and analysis platform

• Lead finance requirements gathering for a keep-or-replace decision.
• Document forecasting, budgeting, and capital and operating planning processes.
• Support subsequent selection and implementation work.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years as a dedicated IT Business Analyst; 10+ years is preferred.
• Experience with vendor-led software or COTS/SaaS implementations through the full lifecycle, from requirements to go-live.
• Finance experience with forecasting, budgeting, and capital and operating planning; finance system implementation experience is ideal.
• Hands-on testing experience writing test plans and scripts and coordinating UAT.
• Data migration and data mapping experience.
• Strong workshop facilitation, process mapping, and requirements traceability skills.
• Experience in waterfall and agile delivery and high-governance, documentation-heavy environments.
• Experience in large, complex organizations with many stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across business, technical, and vendor teams; collaborative and adaptable.
• Able to work on campus in Calgary three days per week.

Preferred experience

• Financial planning or EPM tools such as Oracle EPM, Anaplan, or Workday Adaptive Planning, or finance ERP modules.
• Supply chain or procurement processes, including purchasing, contracting, or procurement.
• Higher education or public sector experience; familiarity with change management methods.
• Experience using Microsoft Copilot or other AI tools in business analysis work.

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