Business Systems Analyst - Wealth Management / Global Asset Managements (GAM)
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Business Systems Analyst - Wealth Management / Global Asset Managements (GAM) Contract Term: 12 months, renewable Work Location: downtown Toronto, ON. Hybrid work - onsite 3 days a week, the other days remote Our client, a global leading IT company, is looking for a Business Systems Analyst - Wealth Global Asset Managements (GAM) Digitech Team. The team would focus on driving key GAM innovation and digital initiatives in an agile iterative environment, delivering new and updated products faster to market, reducing delays by empowering teams, simplifying decision making, facilitating quick adoption, reducing manual processes, and increasing automation.Working closely with Business Product Owner, the BSA role would liaise with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities and, to recommend solutions to enable the achievement of organizational goals.The BSA would build exceptional relationships with other business partners and internal stakeholders, ensuring the requirements map to a real business need, are approved by all relevant stakeholders, and meet essential quality standards. BSA would actively participate in reviews or inspections, in collaboration with the agile team to ensure the quality of work products. This individual will be a key member of the agile persistent development team and will work closely with GAM stakeholders to understand their business needs and goals. Responsibilities: Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates Lead business requirement elicitation sessions with stakeholders to document high and detailed level business systems requirements specifications Define, document, and translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications, taking into account non-functional requirements Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards Responsible for creating, refining, and maintaining user stories with an emphasis on defining business value and acceptance criteria Work closely with the Product Owner on the prioritization of the product backlog Contribute to project management activities such as: scoping and estimating project efforts, identifying key risks, and recommending mitigation measures, communicating activity status, as well as escalating and communicating possible issues. Assist testing teams in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, user acceptance, and operational acceptance testing Respect existing processes and standards including requirements management and project management disciplines, technology delivery and business technology architecture, escalating issues as needed Support the development of the end-user documentation and training Manage risks, assumptions, and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties Participate in agile development activities and all agile ceremonies Qualifications: 5-7 years' working experience as a Business Systems Analyst in financial services / wealth management / investment management / capital markets industries, with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of requirements management on large and complex transformational projects that involved company website overhauls (including both marketing and product pages), continuous website enhancements and 3rd party data integrations Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or equivalent Excellent communication and analytical skills, with proven ability to work well with developers, architects, testers, and business partners Experience in requirements planning and prioritization, including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation and requirements elicitation techniques such as Document analysis, facilitated workshops Requirements analysis and documentation such as Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Use Cases and Scenarios, Data mapping specifications Requirements management and communication - requirements walkthroughs; scope and change management; traceability; configuration management, Backlog Management Experience working in an agile environment Proficient with Epics, user stories, Scrum, Kanban, retrospectives, team planning and other related Agile techniques. Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert. Collaboration & team skills - In-depth. Analytical and problem-solving skills - In-depth / Expert. Influence skills - In-depth / Expert. Data driven decision making - In-depth /Expert. Nice-to-have: Experience using Jira and Confluence, or any other agile software Ability to read and understand data file definitions (XML) Advanced MS Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and Visio skills Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or master's Certificate in Business Analysis SDLC, AGILE, DevOps, Waterfall, and other software development lifecycle frameworks Contact Information: Lam Guan