BUSINESS ANALYST:

On behalf of our client, Procom is searching for a Business Analyst for an 8-month role. This position is a hybrid position with in-person preferred at our client’s Regina office.

BUSINESS ANALYST - JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Business Analyst to support the development, refinement, and reporting of organizational capacity and demand models. This role is pivotal in enabling balanced program portfolio planning by ensuring that project demand is realistically aligned with available organizational capacity across multiple business divisions and functions.

BUSINESS ANALYST - MANDATORY SKILLS:

• 5+ years as a Business Analyst, preferably in Portfolio Management, Strategic Planning, or Enterprise PMO environments.
• Direct experience working with capacity planning, resource forecasting, or workforce planning models.
• Proven success in developing and interpreting demand models that balance strategic initiatives and BAU workload across multiple business areas.
• Experience analyzing data across diverse departments and domains, including IT, corporate services, operations, and shared services.
• Strong experience with tools such as Excel (advanced), Power BI, or equivalent data visualization and reporting tools.

BUSINESS ANALYST – NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS:

• Experience in the insurance, financial services, or regulated industries.
• Exposure to Agile and Waterfall project environments.
• Understanding of organizational design principles and how roles, teams, and skills interact with capacity planning.
• Familiarity with project portfolio management tools.

• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide capacity and demand models to inform prioritization and execution of program and project initiatives.
• Analyze and validate resource forecasts, utilization trends, and allocation scenarios across departments, including IT, Data, Operations, and Business Units.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers and Program Sponsors to ensure realistic demand assumptions are used in planning cycles.
• Integrate capacity considerations into the portfolio intake, planning, and prioritization processes, helping to balance initiative timing and resource availability.
• Provide clear, data-driven insights and recommendations through dashboards, visualizations, and executive summaries.
• Support the governance framework by ensuring timely reporting and escalations where demand exceeds capacity.
• Partner with Finance and HR to align resourcing assumptions with FTE availability, role types, skill sets, and budgetary constraints.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of forecasting tools, capacity models, and reporting processes.
• Act as a subject matter expert on capacity and demand planning in strategic and operational discussions.
• Support scenario modeling for “what-if” planning to inform trade-off decisions in response to organizational shifts or emerging priorities.