The Opportunity:
Company, Department: Nova Scotia Power, Information Technology
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Type of Employment: Regular, Full-Time
Closing Date: September 19, 2025
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our IT team. Reporting to the Manager, Solution Analysis under the Program Management Office, the Business Analyst, will have extensive knowledge and experience in analysis, project execution and business process management. This role will be key to map current business processes to new systems or services and lead the evaluation engagements with its customers for analysis of options, cost benefit analysis and recommendations.
This role will have a deep understanding of business analysis organization and an understanding of project management, system development lifecycle and business analysis methodology.
Key elements of this role include::

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or similar Information Technology degree.
• 7 years’ experience or acceptable equivalent.
• A professional Business Analyst Certification is preferred.
• Knowledge and understanding of standard business analysis processes and methodologies.
• Sufficient experience to demonstrate the ability to support business units.
• Knowledge of project management methods to actively participate in and support Senior Project Managers in cross-functional projects.
• Ability to problem solve, make decisions and/or recommendations.
• Knowledge of ITIL processes and standards to implement, use, and apply these.
• Analytical skills to convert business requirements into business cases/opportunity assessments.
• Ability to collect, evaluate and compress data and information from multiple sources, resolve conflicts and differentiate between actual and required user needs.
• Knowledge of Office software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email, Visio and collaboration software to write business cases and/or Opportunity Assessment, create reports and spreadsheets.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to clients including negotiation and convincing.
• Knowledge and experience with Organizational change management.
• Ability to proactively keep abreast of new emerging technologies.
• Interview, facilitate working groups and develop strong relationships.
• Experience in user training and implementation of IT solutions.
• Requires excellent interpersonal skills, consensus building skills, team building skills and the ability to follow through and complete projects