Business/ Functional Analyst

at  CGI

Main Responsibilities:

• Act as a resource person for users
• Understand, identify and communicate business issues
• Play a key role in support maintenance, incident resolution, problem solving and continuous improvements. Will have to do night support.
• Take ownership of complex problem-analysis assignments, recommend efficient solutions and being an enabler of their implementation.
• Play a frontline role liaising between IT and business partners in terms of solution requirements translation into user stories and/or IT functional/ technical specifications.
• Identify innovative solutions to the problems encountered in conjunction with designers, architects and developers
• Collect and analyze business needs
• Perform functional analysis, impact analysis, strategies and plans for testing and delivering solutions
• Ensure the quality of the solution in concert with the designers and the architect
• Participate in deliveries and support users during deployment
• Take a lead role into testing lifecycle (Regression, Integrated and UAT testing)
• Propose adjustments to business operations and system procedures with business analysts
• Provide complete and updated documentation

Profile and expertise

• Proficiency and experience as a business/ functional analyst
• Experience in the financial investment industry and/or Experience in the private market investment
• Expertise in financial instruments and their lifecycles. Solid experience with Microsoft SQL Server. Solid ability to produce and maintain documentation (for example system specifications, use cases, test scenarios, reports and presentations)
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills (French and English)
• Experience with Back-office and accounting processes in an investment context - an asset. Knowledge of process modeling methodologies - an asset. Knowledge of FrontInvest - an asset

Qualifications
5+ years of experience business and solution analysis experience in financial investment applications

Experience working with an agile team

• Customer focused and results driven
• Demonstrate analytical skills, with a structured approach and sense of priorities
• Dynamic, autonomous and highly motivated by new challenges
• Ability to maintain a good relationship of trust with different levels within the organization
• Excellent team spirit
• Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment and adaptability to change
• Ability to drive multiple activities simultaneously
• Good judgment, business acumen and keen ability to assess people, processes and products
• Ethics and professional integrity.

Education

• Bachelor in Business, Information Technologies, and/or the equivalent combination of education and experience
• Professional designation (CFA, CBAP/CCBA, FRM, PRM or CAIA) is an asset.

Professional background

• 3 years of experience as a business and functional analysis

Main Responsibilities:

• Act as a resource person for users
• Understand, identify and communicate business issues
• Play a key role in support maintenance, incident resolution, problem solving and continuous improvements. Will have to do night support.
• Take ownership of complex problem-analysis assignments, recommend efficient solutions and being an enabler of their implementation.
• Play a frontline role liaising between IT and business partners in terms of solution requirements translation into user stories and/or IT functional/ technical specifications.
• Identify innovative solutions to the problems encountered in conjunction with designers, architects and developers
• Collect and analyze business needs
• Perform functional analysis, impact analysis, strategies and plans for testing and delivering solutions
• Ensure the quality of the solution in concert with the designers and the architect
• Participate in deliveries and support users during deployment
• Take a lead role into testing lifecycle (Regression, Integrated and UAT testing)
• Propose adjustments to business operations and system procedures with business analysts
• Provide complete and updated documentatio