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Job title: Business Analyst
Company: Bank of Canada
Job description: Business Analyst
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 a diverse and inclusive organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in an environment where we are reinventing central banking, renewing ways of doing business and reinforcing a culture of innovation.
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What you will do
We are looking for one Business Analyst to join the Business Analysis and Systems Support team in the Financial Markets Department (FMD) for one of our Scrum teams. The position will be for three years with the possibility of extension.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Business Delivery Services you leverage your expertise in business strategy and analysis to clarify and document users’ needs, while ensuring that the teams in charge of implementation fully understand the features needed to improve market operations applications. You play a strong role by reviewing and analyzing options for improving business solution capabilities to meet the evolving needs of the Bank. Using your business analysis skills to understand requirements, you work closely with all business lines to ensure that the end-state solution is truly in line with Bank expectations. Working with an Agile team, you also contribute to all efforts necessary to complete the team’s tasks. This can potentially include tasks beyond business analysis, such as writing automated testing scripts or developing tests to assess delivered features. You also work collaboratively within a team of other experts in the field.
As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for applying analytic processes and techniques in qualifying business challenges, processes and programs or services to identify and validate opportunities for improvement. As an active member of a Scrum team, you will be required to quickly pick-up the business knowledge required to support your colleagues through defining and clarifying the requirements from the business users, helping design and execute the test scripts and test strategy. You will play an active role in creating documentation for user requests and ongoing projects with the goal of meeting the intended need for them, as well as their supportability once deployed, as prioritized in the department’s work plan.
You will be expected to build a good understanding of our supported teams’ business processes and data requirements/flows so you can bring a meaningful contribution to our projects. You will also work with individuals who provide second-level support for FMD’s applications. Providing this level of support is one of the team’s key missions and your meaningful contribution is essential. You will also collaborate with developers and quality assurance analysts as part of an Agile development process.
As per the Agile mindset, you will play a key role in all development phases leading to the delivery of system improvements as per user requests. You require a hands-on approach to support your team and help where/when it is needed.
What you need to succeed
We are looking for someone with experience with defining, building and planning business initiatives as well as in troubleshooting and applying root cause analysis in a practical context. You must be aware of business analysis principles and best practices and able to quickly understand the processes/data required from our business and contribute to solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. You must be capable of conducting needs assessments, gathering and identify business requirements and validating the best path to implement our solutions.
You must be an effective communicator and have a commendable team spirit and a healthy curiosity for understanding topics that are in our workplan. You must be committed to continuous learning in the business analysis field, which will help you approach situations and solve existing problems. You must be a self-starter; consistently looking for insights on how to help your team meet its objectives.
Your observation skills, your capacity to identify blind spots in the features to implement, your ability to help in planning and carrying out teamwork as well as your expertise in conceptualizing the work to be done will allow you to understand the deliverables in each project.
Nice-to-have
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA)
Your education and experience
a completed university degree with a minimum of six years of relevant work experience in business analysis activities and experience with:
- key concepts outlined in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)
- an Agile environment
- basic economic and financial concepts
- an environment where flexibility in tasks is common
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an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered:
- have meaningful experience in a relevant financial environment involving front, middle and back-office experience
- have a knowledge of economical and financial concepts in relationship with the role o fa Central Bank
- knowledge of some concepts around data related solutions such as data warehouse, business intelligence solutions, etc.
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: Secret
- You will work remotely from any location within Canada while the Bank operates under mandatory telework. Flexibility for remote work for the duration of the term may be granted.
- There will be no relocation assistance provided
- Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.
- In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and further to public health guidelines, preventative measures are being taken to ensure health and safety during the recruitment process. All interviews are conducted virtually.
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
What you can expect from us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit .
- Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $80,300 to $94,400 (job grade 16)
- Depending on performance, you may be eligible for performance pay for successfully meeting (5 to 7% of your base salary) or for exceeding expectations (10% of your base salary). Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
- Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health and dental coverage that meets your needs
- Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement
- Option to join the indexed, defined-benefit pension plan after 24 consecutive months of service
We strive to make our policies, programs and workplace more inclusive, respectful and barrier-free. We encourage applications from women, Indigenous peoples, veterans, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and persons of all races, ethnic origins, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions.
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Expected salary: $80300 – 94400 per year
Location: Ottawa, ON
Job date: Thu, 27 May 2021 05:24:31 GMT
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