Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Role Overview
An existing vacancy on the IT team for a Senior Business Systems Analyst.
The analyst connects business objectives with technical delivery across insurance platforms, integrations, reporting, data solutions, and third-party applications.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Tokio Marine Canada
Tokio Marine Canada is a Toronto-based commercial property and casualty insurer that partners with brokers to provide business insurance solutions across Canada.
The company is part of Tokio Marine Group and describes itself as a relationship-focused organization emphasizing collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and practical service.
Opportunity
An existing vacancy on the IT team for a Senior Business Systems Analyst.
The analyst connects business objectives with technical delivery across insurance platforms, integrations, reporting, data solutions, and third-party applications.
Business analysis and solution delivery
- Elicit, analyze, document, prioritize, and validate complex business, functional, non-functional, and system requirements.
- Produce technical specifications, user stories, process models, acceptance criteria, and solution documentation; lead discovery sessions and requirements workshops.
- Analyze current processes and systems, identify gaps, recommend future-state solutions, and maintain requirements traceability and change records.
- Partner with business stakeholders, developers, QA, data teams, architects, and vendors to design, configure, and implement solutions.
- Contribute to backlog refinement, estimation, sprint and release planning, production readiness, and implementation.
- Support production issue analysis, root-cause investigations, remediation planning, and continuous improvement; maintain delivery documentation.
Testing and stakeholder leadership
- Develop or review test scenarios, cases, and acceptance criteria; coordinate system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
- Track defects, requirement gaps, and implementation risks; support change readiness, training, communications, and knowledge transfer.
- Validate post-implementation outcomes and recommend improvements to performance, usability, and business value.
- Build stakeholder relationships, communicate technical and business information, facilitate decisions, surface risks, and help resolve ambiguity.
- Provide informal guidance to analysts and contribute to shared business analysis standards and practices.
Experience and qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in business analysis, business systems analysis, systems delivery, application implementation, or a related role.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional analysis across the full software delivery lifecycle.
- Commercial Property & Casualty insurance experience in a Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst role.
- Experience with enterprise applications, policy administration systems, integrations, reporting, data-centric solutions, Agile delivery, and external vendors.
- A bachelor's degree in a related discipline is preferred; equivalent combinations of education, certifications, and practical experience are considered.
- IIBA, project management, Agile, or related certification is an asset.
Technical and professional skills
- Knowledge of requirements elicitation and management, process analysis, solution assessment, business rules, user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability.
- Experience modelling current- and future-state processes with workflow diagrams, process maps, or similar techniques.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, including PostgreSQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server, for data analysis and validation.
- Experience with enterprise applications, interfaces, APIs, integrations, data flows, test planning, functional and regression testing, defect triage, and user acceptance testing.
- Experience with Agile or Scrum practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, and release planning.
- Strong commercial insurance knowledge covering workflows, products, underwriting, policy administration, and related processes.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation, organizational, and collaboration skills.
- English fluency is required; French proficiency is an asset.
Compensation
- The anticipated base salary range is 90,000–110,000; the posting does not specify a pay cadence or currency.
- Offers consider location, experience, skills, and performance; the company describes the midpoint as typical for experienced professionals.
Workplace
- Hybrid work model, with time split between office and remote work and flexibility according to role and business needs.
- The current office is in downtown Toronto. Employees in provinces without an office remain remote until an office is established.
Workplace culture
The company highlights its CARE values: Collaborative, Achieving Excellence, Responsive, and Ethical & Respectful.
Tokio Marine Canada states its commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and a respectful workplace.
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