Business Analyst - (Banking / Technology / Waterfall / Mainframe)

at  BMO Financial Group

33 Dundas Street West Toronto Ontario,M5G 3C2
In this role, the business analyst will elicit and document business requirements from multiple North American Commercial Banking (NACB) business and technology stakeholders and help to coordinate various external and internal teams to successfully implement each initiative, acting as subject matter expert of NACB deposit products.

This role will include supporting NACB Deposit portfolio projects end-to-end within the technology space, including completing technology intakes, vendor engagement, project coordination, and completing supporting project documentation. Liaises with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities, to facilitate the organization’s goals by understanding business vision, objectives, and key performance indicators. Aligns technology requirements and solutions to a real business need, meets essential quality standards, and ensures approval by all relevant stakeholders. Promotes new processes and methodologies, emerging technologies, and aligns to the unique project team requirements.

• Act as subject matter expert of North American Commercial Banking Deposit products
• Elicits requirements and analyzes feasibility to ensure solutions/initiatives achieve the expected business outcomes.
• Supports various project teams across the project lifecycle to ensure development is aligned with the business requirements.
• Develops informative, coherent, and usable project documents (project artifacts) for multiple stakeholders covering functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Applies depth of domain & functional expertise for the assigned portfolio to drive the expected business value.
• Completes intakes to engage internal and external BMO teams specific to deposit product initiatives
• Lead small to medium initiatives end-to-end including project coordination and project documentation
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Collaborates with Lead QA to ensure test strategy aligns with requirements.
• Focus is primarily on business/group within BMO; may have broader, enterprise-wide focus.
• Provides specialized consulting, analytical and technical support.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Typically 3-5 years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Business Analysis and/or Project Manger education focus or accreditation is an asset.
• Knowledge of software development practice, concepts/methodologies (i.e. waterfall, Agile, iterative), and technologies obtained through formal training and/or work experience.
• Knowledge of one or more requirements analysis and problem decomposition techniques.
• Knowledge of technical/business environment (e.g. Microsoft business technologies and applications, relational databases, and SharePoint).
• Understanding of industry standards and standard business capabilities.
• Knowledge of business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project lifecycle.
• Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of Information Technology of various complexities.
• Familiar with business strategy and assessments (i.e. feasibility studies, business cases and/or cost/benefit, project sizing and costing, and current state analysis/needs assessments).
• Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert.
• Analytical and problem solving skills - In-depth / Expert.
• Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration - In-depth / Expert.
• Able to manage ambiguity.
• Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.

• Act as subject matter expert of North American Commercial Banking Deposit products
• Elicits requirements and analyzes feasibility to ensure solutions/initiatives achieve the expected business outcomes.
• Supports various project teams across the project lifecycle to ensure development is aligned with the business requirements.
• Develops informative, coherent, and usable project documents (project artifacts) for multiple stakeholders covering functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Applies depth of domain & functional expertise for the assigned portfolio to drive the expected business value.
• Completes intakes to engage internal and external BMO teams specific to deposit product initiatives
• Lead small to medium initiatives end-to-end including project coordination and project documentation
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Collaborates with Lead QA to ensure test strategy aligns with requirements.
• Focus is primarily on business/group within BMO; may have broader, enterprise-wide focus.
• Provides specialized consulting, analytical and technical support.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed