Technical Business Analyst - Toronto, Canada - Scotiabank

    Scotiabank
    Scotiabank Toronto, Canada

    2 weeks ago

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    Description

    Story Behind the Need

  • Business group: The GFRT – Global Finance Risk Technology supports trade flow risk management and other middle office teams.
  • Project: The group is responsible for the onboarding and ongoing monitoring of TARDIS, a centralized platform for the reporting of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, YTD P&L. The application also provides an attribution breakdown of daily P&L movements. The project aims to onboard a waterfall attribution calculation and report results for end user monitoring and analysis.
  • Reason for request: Application Support.

    • Candidate Value Proposition

  • The successful candidate will have an opportunity to join an exciting team that requires not only a strong BA, but a problem solver who will use new technology to leave a lasting impact for Risk Technology groups at the bank.

    • Typical Day in Role

  • Manage, elicit, analyze and document detailed-level business and functional requirements (relating to data, business rules, calculations, report outputs) utilizing relevant requirements artifacts.
  • Lead and conduct workshops to facilitate requirements gathering and discovery.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to assess the current and future states and perform detailed gap analyses.
  • Identify upstream and downstream dependencies.
  • Produce breakdown of effort estimates for analysis and requirements-related activities.
  • Provide hands-on support during various cycles of testing, including Functional Testing, Quality Assurance, Systems Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
  • Actively contribute to process re-engineering and process improvement.
  • Ability to resolve complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs.

    • Global Banking & Markets by applying their financial and technological knowledge to the design of systems solutions, methodologies, and/or processes.

  • This may involve rapid prototyping, with requirements and solutions developed on an iterative basis that provides interim deliverables until a final production solution is created.
  • This includes conducting research and analysis, accurately and clearly defining user requirements and processes, and liaising with the users.
  • Highly motivated and committed, capable of working in a dynamic environment with aggressive timelines multiple work streams running in parallel.
  • Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.
  • Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

    • Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

  • 5 years' Business Analysts experience within the Capital Markets field, ideally within Market Risk
  • 5 years' BA experience gathering requirements, designing methodologies, building test cases, executing tests, and supporting production systems.
  • Strong SQL skills required – min 5 years' experience (contractor should be able to run queries easily and update if needed)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills to manage stakeholder relations, and team-player who can work with cross-departmental teams.
  • Working experience in an agile environment.

    • Additional Notes

  • The successful candidate will be a strong problem solver. They will be evaluating how to approach codes and errors within them. The logical reasoning behind the code is key to success in this role.
  • About 30% of the role would involve some form of Production Support: every team member does this rotation following an Agile model and will be required before going to production –if full automation no more issues, then this will be minimized*

    • Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Excellent team player by working with cross-departmental business & IT stakeholders, ability to manage conflicts.
  • RiskWatch experience.
  • Recent (within last 3 years') real-time analytical and formal modeling tools and keep current with rapidly changing technology.
  • Kafka, Elastic Search – data is published to Elastic Search (just to have JSON Structure) * don't need expertise in that*
  • FRM designation a plus.

    • Degrees or certifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a business or technical fields such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field required