Business Analyst

Location:
Toronto

Key Accountabilities:

• Ability to exercise good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

• Project management skills in order to handle diverse projects, often times simultaneously, and meet aggressive deadlines.

• Ability to solve technical problems/ processes and understand complex details.

• Work closely with end users, and business teams to understand business needs, conduct gap analysis and requirements assessments as needed

• Create impact analysis document, User stories, Design workflows for implementation

• Understand existing processes and business work flows, identify gaps and recommend solutions

• Improve the end user experience by finding scalable solutions and addressing complex ad hoc queries.

• Works with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies.

• Gathers requirements from business units, documents detailed and complex client taxation processes resulting in reporting and withholding obligations across business lines and products.

• Prepares cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on system implementation.

• Demonstrates an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities. Supports one or more highly complex business processes.

• Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.

• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences

Must have skills

1. 10+ years' experience as a Business Analyst

2. Knowledge and understanding of Client Tax Reporting (CRA/IRS) is required

3. 5+ years of recent experience with Capital markets and global banking.

4. Experience with Financial products like Derivatives, Fixed income, etc. is required for this role

Nice to have skills:

1. Recent experience with Banking/ Financial Institution is highly preferred.

2. Exposure to various tax reporting such as NR4, 1099 and tax withholding obligations under CRA/ IRS are an advantage

Soft Skills Required:

• A high level of interpersonal and verbal communication skills necessary to relate to other people at their systems knowledge level.

• Ability to analyze complex situations and problems and do the necessary research using multiple sources of information to arrive at innovative solutions.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.