Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: GRT - Trade Floor Risk Management & Risk Models
• Project: Business Analyst needed for FRTB
• Reason for request: Backfill

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have an opportunity to join an exciting project 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.
• Working with a strong team with diverse knowledge and exposure to other risk technology groups within the bank

Typical Day in Role:

• Preparing the BRD documentation for developers
• 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.
• Construct data flow diagrams, business and system context diagrams.
• 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.
• Deliver on project requirements using Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Effectively communicate and build rapport with all team members and stakeholders, including various source system teams and vendor teams.
• 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 of 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.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 5 + years' Business Analysts experience gathering requirements, designing methodologies, building test cases, executing test and supporting production system
• 3+ years' experience within the Capital Markets field (ideally within Market Risk)
• Strong SQL skills required - min 5 years' experience (contractor should be able to run queries easily and update if needed)
• Familiar with Linux applications
• Experience working and managing Agile requirements in JIRA is required.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Market Risk experience is an asset
• Kafka and Elastic Search Search - data is published to Elastic Search (just to have JSON Structure) * don't need expertise in that*
• Recent (within last 3 years') real time analytical and formal modelling tools and keep current with rapidly changing technology
• RiskWatch experience is an asset

Soft Skills:

• Strong knowledge of requirements / design methodology - detail oriented, analytical and capable of investigating complex / technical issues and provide alternative solutions, project methodologies including Scrum, Agile and DevOps
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to manage stakeholder relations, and work with cross-departmental teams
• Excellent team player by working with cross-departmental business & IT stakeholders, ability to manage conflicts.
• 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

Best vs Average:

• A candidate who has initiative, is able to problem solve, and has the technical knowledge outlined above. Strong capital markets experience and familiarity with products will assist in documenting how processes should work. A good candidate will be a self-starter and will be proactive in seeking solutions for the team without prompting from management.

Degrees or certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• FRM/CFA designation are an asset

Candidate Review & Selection:

• Structure and Format: One interview, 1 hour videoconference with HM
• ASAP interviews

Job Details

9728

Contract

6 months

Toronto