Senior Business System Analyst, GFT

RBC

Overview

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

The FIAT Portfolio Management team are responsible for a wide range of projects impacting the Finance and Audit departments that span multiple systems within the Finance/Audit domain. The projects may be internally driven due to upstream changes or new business; externally driven due to accounting-, regulatory-, market-changes; or mergers and acquisitions.

As an end-to-end Business System Analyst, you need to understand the project’s objectives, collaborate across numerous IT teams and lead the coordination of BA specialists and subject matter experts to collate system requirements from our Finance users and ensure they are tested and delivered by the end of the project

Responsibilities

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Work closely with Finance representatives and other project stakeholders to ensure the scope and project objectives are clearly articulated and understood.
Work closely with IT architects to understand the data flows and responsibilities of each system in the Finance architecture to define the high-level scope of changes across the component systems.
Work closely with each Finance component’s system analysts and subject matter experts to plan, coordinate and manage the documentation of the requirements so that inbound and outbound critical data elements, assumptions, system responsibilities, execution of business rules and non-functional requirements are logically cohesive and completely cover the overall solution and requirements for Finance.
Work closely with the end-to-end project managers to scope, estimate, plan, capture assumptions, highlight interdependencies and risks to delivery.
Work closely with end-to-end QA managers and data providers to clarify test objectives, plan test cycles, highlight interdependencies and prioritize bug fixes discovered during testing.
Work closely with data providers and Finance component system QA specialists to ensure the critical data elements and NFRs are delivered as expected.
Analyze and interrogate various data sources and databases to assess the completeness and quality of data to meet Finance’s requirements. Where necessary chase data issues back to sources to establish the root cause of the problem and further corrective actions or workarounds.
Understand the financial products and their associated business processes, events and characteristics so that idiosyncrasies are not mishandled and misclassified by our Finance systems.

Job Nature

Full Time, Hybrid, Permanent

Educational Requirements

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must have:

Undergraduate degree coupled with change management experience in complex programs or technical IT/software engineering background.
Proven ability in written and oral communication skills, with careful and concise attention to detail, to represent requirements of the stakeholders and project.
Proven ability to quickly understand and articulate financial products (e.g. loans/deposits, securities, derivatives) or other complex concepts and worked in financial services industry.
Proven ability to manipulate data with basic, technical skills, e.g. SQL/Python/Excel, with some understanding of databases/data models, data flows and interfaces.
Strong organizational, project management and time management capabilities.

Nice-to-have:

Worked on projects that required coordination across multiple systems
Worked in or very familiar with the Finance domain in a bank.
Deadline-driven and results-oriented; able to meet consistently high quality standards while handling a variety of tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses

Experience Requirements

Job Location

Ontario, Toronto

Other Benefits

What’s in it for you? We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
A world-class training program in financial services
Flexible work/life balance options
Opportunities to do challenging work