Business Analyst - Senior
Raise
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Toronto, ON
Contract type: Full time
Position
Responsibilities
The opportunity to help evolve our brand through projects and initiatives that contribute to helping us become one of the best asset management and insurance companies in the world.
To be part of a dynamic team of professionals in a highly collaborative environment.
Recognition; everyone is a contributor.
Opportunities to grow your skills through on the job coaching and formal training.
To be part of an innovative culture where continuous improvement is valued, rewarded and embedded in what we do.
Opportunities to socialize and team build through fun activities with coworkers.
Responsibilities (heading) / Responsabilités (titre)
An expert in the application of business analysis core competencies with at least 5 years of experience.
A strong communicator who listens and picks up on the spoken and unspoken words to excel at delivering, understanding, and interpreting messages through verbal discussions and in writing.
A talented facilitator who is skilled in negotiation and influencing.
A strategic thinker who appropriately applies a variety of planning, analysis, elicitation, modelling, and documentation techniques to accurately define and communicate requirements to help successfully deliver on initiatives.
A mentor and coach for both peers and junior colleagues.
A collaborative team member who continuously strives to improve the client experience, our team, and our processes.
Ideally, we’ll also get somebody with one or more of the following: Knowledge of Insurance and/or Wealth products and business operations;
Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies;
Experience with Organizational Change Management;
Experience with analysis and modelling for both processes and data;
A College or University degree, preferably in Information Technology, Business Systems Analysis or equivalent experience;
A Business Analysis professional certification or working towards;
A technical aptitude and curiosity
Preferred Skills (heading) / Compétences Particulières (titre)
Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer, and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/
In order to submit candidates for roles, our clients will sometimes require personal information to confirm the identity of applicants and their legal status to work. Raise will never ask you for personal or banking information unless you have been selected for a job. If you are ever unsure about the legitimacy of this or another job posting by Raise (or have any other questions), please contact us at +1 800-567-9675 or [email protected]
- Pay Rate: (flexible)
- Location:Waterloo ,Ontario
- Contract Length:7 Months
Responsibilities
The opportunity to help evolve our brand through projects and initiatives that contribute to helping us become one of the best asset management and insurance companies in the world.
To be part of a dynamic team of professionals in a highly collaborative environment.
Recognition; everyone is a contributor.
Opportunities to grow your skills through on the job coaching and formal training.
To be part of an innovative culture where continuous improvement is valued, rewarded and embedded in what we do.
Opportunities to socialize and team build through fun activities with coworkers.
Responsibilities (heading) / Responsabilités (titre)
- Collaborate with business partners, vendors, leaders, application development and testing teams to ensure quality solutions that meet the needs and expectations of our business partners and clients.
- Understand the technical and operational challenges and objectives that may impact the roll-out of an application / process. Use that to drive discussions about solutions and risk mitigation.
An expert in the application of business analysis core competencies with at least 5 years of experience.
A strong communicator who listens and picks up on the spoken and unspoken words to excel at delivering, understanding, and interpreting messages through verbal discussions and in writing.
A talented facilitator who is skilled in negotiation and influencing.
A strategic thinker who appropriately applies a variety of planning, analysis, elicitation, modelling, and documentation techniques to accurately define and communicate requirements to help successfully deliver on initiatives.
A mentor and coach for both peers and junior colleagues.
A collaborative team member who continuously strives to improve the client experience, our team, and our processes.
Ideally, we’ll also get somebody with one or more of the following: Knowledge of Insurance and/or Wealth products and business operations;
Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies;
Experience with Organizational Change Management;
Experience with analysis and modelling for both processes and data;
A College or University degree, preferably in Information Technology, Business Systems Analysis or equivalent experience;
A Business Analysis professional certification or working towards;
A technical aptitude and curiosity
Preferred Skills (heading) / Compétences Particulières (titre)
- Diverse investment asset knowledge with focus on Derivatives; Capital Markets; and Financial Services knowledge.
- Experience with Derivatives managements systems such as Summit or Calypso.
- Practical experience with data analytics.
- Working knowledge of SQL, JSON and XML.
- A Business Analysis professional certification or working towards.
- College or University degree, preferably with a systems background or equivalent experience
- An expert in the application of business analysis core competencies with at least 7-10 years of work experience
- A strong communicator who excels at delivering crisp, clear written and verbal messages to groups of varying sizes and roles.
- A talented facilitator who is skilled in elicitation and negotiation.
- A collaborative team member who continuously strives to improve the client experience, our team, and our processes.
Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer, and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/
In order to submit candidates for roles, our clients will sometimes require personal information to confirm the identity of applicants and their legal status to work. Raise will never ask you for personal or banking information unless you have been selected for a job. If you are ever unsure about the legitimacy of this or another job posting by Raise (or have any other questions), please contact us at +1 800-567-9675 or [email protected]
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