Senior Business Analyst
Role Overview
Bridge business needs and technology solutions through requirements gathering, process analysis, and stakeholder collaboration.
Work with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, project managers, and end users on project delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Bridge business needs and technology solutions through requirements gathering, process analysis, and stakeholder collaboration.
Work with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, project managers, and end users on project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Gather, validate, and document stakeholder business and technical requirements.
- Analyze processes and workflows for efficiencies, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with business and technology teams to translate requirements into solutions.
- Create and maintain user stories, functional requirements, process documentation, and workflow diagrams.
- Analyze data and business metrics to support decisions and identify actionable insights.
- Support Agile backlog refinement, sprint planning, testing, and user acceptance activities.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, and requirements reviews.
- Help ensure solutions meet business objectives and deliver measurable value.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, IT, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and technical requirements.
- Strong Microsoft Excel proficiency for analysis, reporting, and data validation; hands-on SQL query experience.
- Experience with Jira or similar tools and working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Additional qualifications
- Digital transformation or business process improvement experience is helpful.
- Process mapping, workflow diagrams, use cases, functional specifications, or business process modeling experience is helpful.
- Power BI or Tableau familiarity, CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, Scrum Master or comparable certification, and enterprise-scale cross-functional experience are helpful.
Work arrangement
- Remote position open to qualified applicants in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Work arrangements may change based on project and business or client requirements.
Compensation
- Annual salary is CAD 60,300–95,500, depending on experience, qualifications, skills, and other permitted factors.
Benefits
- Benefits, subject to eligibility, include medical, dental, and vision coverage; retirement programs; paid leave; life and disability insurance; professional development; and wellness programs.
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