Job Description

Position Details:

Title: Business Analyst

Duration: 8 months (potential for extension)

Submission Deadline: Jul 18, 2025

Start Date: August 6, 2025

Location:The position is an onsite role, and the resource is required to work in-person at Client's office in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Requirements:

Client is seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Business Analyst to support the development, refinement, and reporting of organizational capacity and demand models. This role is pivotal in enabling balanced program portfolio planning by ensuring that project demand is realistically aligned with available organizational capacity across multiple business divisions and functions.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain enterprise-wide capacity and demand models

to inform prioritization and execution of program and project initiatives. Analyze and validate

resource forecasts

,

utilization trends

, and

allocation scenarios

across departments, including IT, Data, Operations, and Business Units. Collaborate with Portfolio Managers and Program Sponsors to ensure

realistic demand assumptions

are used in planning cycles. Integrate capacity considerations into the

portfolio intake, planning, and prioritization processes

, helping to balance initiative timing and resource availability. Provide clear, data-driven insights and recommendations through dashboards, visualizations, and executive summaries. Support the

governance framework

by ensuring timely reporting and escalations where demand exceeds capacity. Partner with Finance and HR to align resourcing assumptions with

FTE availability, role types, skill sets

, and

budgetary constraints

. Contribute to the

continuous improvement

of forecasting tools, capacity models, and reporting processes. Act as a

subject matter expert

on capacity and demand planning in strategic and operational discussions. Support scenario modeling for "what-if" planning to inform trade-off decisions in response to organizational shifts or emerging priorities.

Desired Experience and Skills:

Required Experience:

5+ years as a Business Analyst, preferably in

Portfolio Management

,

Strategic Planning

, or

Enterprise PMO

environments. Direct experience working with

capacity planning

,

resource forecasting

, or

workforce planning models

. Proven success in developing and interpreting

demand models

that balance strategic initiatives and BAU workload across multiple business areas. Experience analyzing data across

diverse departments and domains

, including IT, corporate services, operations, and shared services. Strong experience with tools such as

Excel (advanced), Power BI,

or equivalent data visualization and reporting tools.

Preferred Experience:

Experience in the

insurance, financial services, or regulated industries

. Exposure to

Agile and Waterfall project environments

. Understanding of

organizational design principles

and how roles, teams, and skills interact with capacity planning. Familiarity with

project portfolio management tools

*

Key Competencies:

Analytical Thinking:

Ability to interpret complex data and draw insights to support actionable decisions.

Business Acumen:

Understands how strategic goals translate into operational work and capacity needs.

Stakeholder Engagement:

Skilled at building relationships and translating technical or analytical insights for non-technical audiences.

Communication:

Strong written and verbal skills; able to clearly convey analysis, rationale, and recommendations.

Problem Solving:

Able to assess constraints, risks, and trade-offs to support sound decision-making.

Process Improvement Mindset:

Continuously looks for opportunities to streamline, enhance, or automate planning and reporting.

If interested in this position, please reply with the following:

1. Resume with 3 references

2. Rate, Availability, Onsite availability

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 8 months

Pay: $60.00-$90.00 per hour

Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person