About the role
IT Business Analyst
Location Address: Hybrid: 2 days in-office (will increase to 4 days in future) | Downtown, Toronto
Contract Duration: ASAP to 04/30/2026, possible extension
Typical Day in Role:
- The incumbent acts as technical business/data analyst resource in projects, providing detailed technical data analysis, testing, investigations, recommendations, program specifications and business requirements for development of technical solutions for the sourcing, delivery, and processing of required monthly/daily data sources within the distributed technical architecture to support client profitability and analytics for wholesale customers.
- Supported by knowledge of wholesale business products and detailed understanding of Bank source applications, the incumbent uses technical knowledge and business/data insights to design and build specifications for operationally stable processes that extract, transform, and map raw data to organized/structured schemasfor the purpose of consistent reporting and analytics.
- The incumbent supports technical peers in the team and collaborate with business partners, data engineers and cross functional IT teams to deliver complex,creative, cost-effective, and robust operationally stable data solutions. This includes development of complex queries against big data that are required to ensure data are accessible for analytics and reporting by the data teams, as well as providing oversight of reporting solutions using Tableau, and/or other industry standard BI tools.
- The incumbent provides acceptance testing and verification to help verify complex technical/business solutionsfor the assigned tasks. They will share the results with users for confirmation and sign-off to proceed with implementation to release the solution in production environment. The incumbent may be required to perform operational support after hours from time-to-time to support late hours implementation and operational processes.
- The incumbent drives the implementation of new processes, improving methodologies and utilizes cutting-edge technologies to expedite delivery of new and enhanced products to our customers on a daily basis. They drive adoption of modern testing approaches and techniques to both ensure excellent quality standards while delivering with velocity.
- The incumbent is expected to function independently combining technical expertise and business knowledge to recommend, develop and implement technical solutions and identify opportunities for automation or efficiency in ETL processes.
- The incumbent may receive general direction from Director/Senior Manager/Project Managers/Business Analysts for the projects assigned.
- Collaborate with data architects, modelers, and IT team members on project goals.
Must have skills:
- 10+ years of experience working in a similar capacity as a BA/BSA
- 7 + years of recent project experience writing intermediate to advanced queries using SQL.
- 7+ years of experience as Business Data Analyst working with large sets of data including data mapping and Big Data
- 3+ years' finance/accounting background
- 3 + years of experience with revenue reporting and P&L
Nice to have:
- Power BI is a strong asset.
- Fluency in Spanish is preferred
- Experience with automated testing.
- Agile/Scrum methodology understanding / worked in an Agile environment
- Previous recent experience working with Top5 Banks/FI
About Finance Professionals Inc.
WHO WE ARE
We are a specialist FinTech and Financial Services recruitment consultancy. We have been helping clients attract, hire and retain staff across all areas from technology to finance. By being specialists in our sectors, we are able to use our deep and active network of professionals to quickly match the best people with great permanent and contract job opportunities.
WHAT WE DO:
We deliberately work on a small number of assignments allowing us the time to deeply search for talent for your business. By partnering with an excellent client base including Banks, Financial Services Firms, FinTech companies at various stages and established multinationals, we are able to present compelling career opportunities to industry professionals.
SECTORS WE WORK IN: -FinTech -Infrastructure -Financial Systems -Banking & Securities -Wealth Management & Advisory -Fund Management -Fund Services -Payment Services -Financial Services -Insurance -Real Estate Investment Trusts -Real Estate Development -Construction Finance and Private Equity
SKILLS WE PLACE: -Accounting & Finance -Banking Operations & Middle Office -Risk & Compliance -Fund Accounting -PMO -Business Analysts -IT Manager -Cloud Professionals -DBA -Data Specialists -Design -QA & Testing -Developers
About the role
IT Business Analyst
Location Address: Hybrid: 2 days in-office (will increase to 4 days in future) | Downtown, Toronto
Contract Duration: ASAP to 04/30/2026, possible extension
Typical Day in Role:
- The incumbent acts as technical business/data analyst resource in projects, providing detailed technical data analysis, testing, investigations, recommendations, program specifications and business requirements for development of technical solutions for the sourcing, delivery, and processing of required monthly/daily data sources within the distributed technical architecture to support client profitability and analytics for wholesale customers.
- Supported by knowledge of wholesale business products and detailed understanding of Bank source applications, the incumbent uses technical knowledge and business/data insights to design and build specifications for operationally stable processes that extract, transform, and map raw data to organized/structured schemasfor the purpose of consistent reporting and analytics.
- The incumbent supports technical peers in the team and collaborate with business partners, data engineers and cross functional IT teams to deliver complex,creative, cost-effective, and robust operationally stable data solutions. This includes development of complex queries against big data that are required to ensure data are accessible for analytics and reporting by the data teams, as well as providing oversight of reporting solutions using Tableau, and/or other industry standard BI tools.
- The incumbent provides acceptance testing and verification to help verify complex technical/business solutionsfor the assigned tasks. They will share the results with users for confirmation and sign-off to proceed with implementation to release the solution in production environment. The incumbent may be required to perform operational support after hours from time-to-time to support late hours implementation and operational processes.
- The incumbent drives the implementation of new processes, improving methodologies and utilizes cutting-edge technologies to expedite delivery of new and enhanced products to our customers on a daily basis. They drive adoption of modern testing approaches and techniques to both ensure excellent quality standards while delivering with velocity.
- The incumbent is expected to function independently combining technical expertise and business knowledge to recommend, develop and implement technical solutions and identify opportunities for automation or efficiency in ETL processes.
- The incumbent may receive general direction from Director/Senior Manager/Project Managers/Business Analysts for the projects assigned.
- Collaborate with data architects, modelers, and IT team members on project goals.
Must have skills:
- 10+ years of experience working in a similar capacity as a BA/BSA
- 7 + years of recent project experience writing intermediate to advanced queries using SQL.
- 7+ years of experience as Business Data Analyst working with large sets of data including data mapping and Big Data
- 3+ years' finance/accounting background
- 3 + years of experience with revenue reporting and P&L
Nice to have:
- Power BI is a strong asset.
- Fluency in Spanish is preferred
- Experience with automated testing.
- Agile/Scrum methodology understanding / worked in an Agile environment
- Previous recent experience working with Top5 Banks/FI
About Finance Professionals Inc.
WHO WE ARE
We are a specialist FinTech and Financial Services recruitment consultancy. We have been helping clients attract, hire and retain staff across all areas from technology to finance. By being specialists in our sectors, we are able to use our deep and active network of professionals to quickly match the best people with great permanent and contract job opportunities.
WHAT WE DO:
We deliberately work on a small number of assignments allowing us the time to deeply search for talent for your business. By partnering with an excellent client base including Banks, Financial Services Firms, FinTech companies at various stages and established multinationals, we are able to present compelling career opportunities to industry professionals.
SECTORS WE WORK IN: -FinTech -Infrastructure -Financial Systems -Banking & Securities -Wealth Management & Advisory -Fund Management -Fund Services -Payment Services -Financial Services -Insurance -Real Estate Investment Trusts -Real Estate Development -Construction Finance and Private Equity
SKILLS WE PLACE: -Accounting & Finance -Banking Operations & Middle Office -Risk & Compliance -Fund Accounting -PMO -Business Analysts -IT Manager -Cloud Professionals -DBA -Data Specialists -Design -QA & Testing -Developers