Manager, Business Analyst Chapter Lead - Ottawa, Canada - EDC

EDC

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Manager, Business Analyst Chapter Lead (18 Month Contract) - 0004GK

Posting Date:
Aug 31, 2023, 1:02:25 PM

Primary Location:
Ontario-Ottawa

Job Type:
Contract

Schedule:
Full-time

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad.

EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you'll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world.

Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide.

You'll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success.

And you'll know that you're making an impact every day - for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world.

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Team & Job Overview

In 2020, senior management presented to the Board of Directors an integrated digital strategy and transformation roadmap to meet the long-term corporate aspirations of EDC.

The strategy has been approved by the Board of Directors and is now in execution. Most recently, a centralized transformation office (TO) has been created which incorporates all orchestration, change, culture and technology teams. TO employees are empowered to deliver impactful solutions and sustainable change to our business and employee experience platforms. Everyone is tasked with evolving ways of working and bringing the exporter at the center of the design cycle. EDC is currently deploying agile ways of working at scale for all digital solution and value delivery. Key elements of the digital transformation effort in partnership with the business are estimated at $390M+.

We are seeking a Manager, Business Analyst Chapter Lead, to lead business analysts and build competencies within the business analysis domain.

The BA community at EDC is well regarded and has contributed to delivering significant customer impact in the past few years.

The incumbent will need to be sough as an expert in their domain and continue to scale its capabilities.

As EDC takes an employee first approach to deliver its 2030 strategy, attracting, developing, and growing the workforce of BAs is essential.

Close collaboration with family and squad product owners will be essential to ensure BA assignment is optimal and high performing.

Fostering a common sense of development and exemplifying innovative ways BAs can increase their impact is welcome.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and manage organizational expertise in the business analyst area of knowledge.
Drive consistency and refine standards, practices and work methodology within the Chapter competence and serve as a guide for others in their area of knowledge.
Identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions e.g., the IIBA, to build professional capabilities.
Develop Chapter members over time to create "Tshaped" profiles while steering development to match organizational demand of capability and skill.
Evolve capability building roadmap for Chapter members at both the individual and aggregate levels.
Actively manage a small workforce; promote EDC, seek new talent, hire, onboard, develop and empower your talent to have impact in process and product teams.
Manage quarterly planning for Chapter members and coordinate with them on their longterm professional development. Hold regular 1on1s as required.
Partner with family and squad key stakeholders (product owner, scrum master, architecture owner) to assess and manage performance and evaluate Chapter members; 360, etc.
Resolve organizational issues, including planning, allocation, reallocation, and accounting for absences.
Promote an agile atmosphere with teams and groups by emphasizing nimble action in service of constant customer focus.
Promote culture of inclusion and diversity and be an active supporter of EDC's cultural change.
Manage the development and/or delivery of a significant element of an organizational change management initiative for a substantial department/area.
Map and develop a network of diverse stakeholders, whose influence is critical to the achievement of digital plans and objectives.
Conduct analysis of complex information, drawing insights from that data and multiple sources.
Communicate effectively to multiple audiences and can bring in additional view in building recommendations.
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