Business System Analyst

at  Bank of Canada

DID YOU KNOW?

As a contributor to the modernization roadmap of major Canadian financial market infrastructures, the Bank of Canada develops business capabilities in Swift payments, collateral management, and post-trade securities activities in CDSX.

YOUR EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, commerce, computer science or related field and a minimum of five years of experience providing consultation in the development of business requirements as well as the delivery of business system analysis, ensuring accurate consideration of people, processes, systems design and technology.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with the agile software development methodology in the capacity of a business analyst

Or

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Language requirement: English and French essential (bilingual) with a minimum starting level of functional (level 4) in second official language. Training may be provided to help reach the required level of fully functional (level 5) in second official language.
• Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
• Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Secret
• Relocation assistance may be provided, if required
• Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.

For one of our teams (1 position), we are looking for relevant experience in the following areas (in addition to the above):

• Business intelligence (business performance measurement, balanced scorecard)
• Implementation of data related solutions (data warehouse, business intelligence solutions, master data management solutions)
• Writing SQL queries for data extractio

TAKE A CENTRAL ROLE

The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.
Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.
With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance - find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada’s top employers: Working Here - Bank of Canada
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WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a Business System Analyst in the Banking and Payments (BAP) Department, you are primarily responsible for providing expertise in business analysis for clarifying and documenting user needs so that the scrum teams understand and implement the features required by Banking Operations.

When you join our team, you will;

• Perform technical and functional requirements analysis, develop requirements and design documentation, supporting workflows and fully qualified Jira Epics and Stories to facilitate Product Development
• Work with the scrum team to analyze, find and validate solutions to complex business problems
• Identify opportunities to improve Banking and Payment business processes and capabilities
• Develop and maintain documentation, including business/systems processes, data requirements, as well as functional and technical specifications related to the system
• Analyze financial messaging standards to incorporate new features/functionality
• Write, plan and execute test scenarios and coordinate user acceptance testing

For one of our teams (1 position), we are looking for relevant experience in the following areas (in addition to the above):

• Business intelligence (business performance measurement, balanced scorecard)
• Implementation of data related solutions (data warehouse, business intelligence solutions, master data management solutions)
• Writing SQL queries for data extraction

You will be expected to work with data modellers to understand data requirements and current state within the source business systems. You’ll also work with ETL developers to understand data issues encountered during data processing.