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Job Title: Business Analyst – Capital Markets / Financial Services Location: Toronto, ON (hybrid) Duration: 6 months to start (possibility of extension) Rate: CAD55-CAD60/hr
Position Overview We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with a strong background in Capital Markets and Financial Services to join a high-performing team. The ideal candidate will have proven experience working with business and technology stakeholders, driving requirements gathering, facilitating discussions, and delivering complex initiatives across capital markets environments. Experience in Prime Brokerage is highly desirable but not mandatory.
Key Responsibilities Partner with business and technology stakeholders to gather, document, and validate business requirements. Lead workshops, stakeholder meetings, and requirements elicitation sessions. Analyze existing business processes and identify opportunities for improvement. Translate business needs into functional and technical requirements, user stories, process flows, and business documentation. Act as a liaison between business users, technology teams, project managers, and senior leadership. Drive project execution, issue resolution, and decision-making across multiple stakeholders. Support solution design, testing, implementation, and post-production activities. Facilitate UAT planning, execution, and defect management. Produce business process maps, gap analyses, and impact assessments. Ensure project deliverables align with strategic business objectives and regulatory requirements where applicable.
Required Qualifications 7+ years of Business Analysis experience within Capital Markets or Financial Services. Strong experience working directly with senior business and technology stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives independently and manage competing priorities. Experience gathering and documenting complex business requirements. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies. Proficiency in producing BRDs, FRDs, use cases, process flows, and user stories.
Preferred Qualifications Experience within Prime Brokerage environments. Exposure to Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, Trade Lifecycle, Securities, Equities, Fixed Income, or Derivatives. Knowledge of capital markets products, trading workflows, and post-trade processing. Experience working on regulatory, transformation, data, or platform modernization initiatives.
Key Skills Business Analysis Capital Markets Financial Services Requirements Gathering Stakeholder Management Process Mapping Gap Analysis Agile / Scrum User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Documentation & Reporting Prime Brokerage (Preferred) Communication & Leadership
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About Hays
We are leaders in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions, offering advisory services such as learning and skill development, career transitions and employer brand positioning.
As the Leadership Partner to our customers, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. We help you achieve your career goals and deliver your business needs by combining meaningful innovation with our global scale and insights.
Last year we helped over 280,000 people find their next career. Join the millions of people around the world that our specialist recruitment consultants provide with up-to-date information on career options, interesting insights and specific industry trends.
We help our customers define and implement strategies to create inclusive and equitable workplaces. Through harnessing and analysing data, we support business decision making and advise on how to access Talent Networks. We also assist in identifying attractive employer propositions by truly understanding a company’s identity, and support clients with all aspects of their Early Careers proposition, from strategic planning through to operational execution.
Hays is the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The c.12,800 people we employ around the world partner with clients and candidates to power the world of work. Every day our expert consultants help thousands of candidates find their next role, and they also help clients reshape workforces and deal with talent shortages. In the year to 30 June 2021, we placed 77,000 people in permanent jobs and 244,000 people into temporary roles. For more information about our global network, strategy and Group financial results, visit www.haysplc.com
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About the role
Job Title: Business Analyst – Capital Markets / Financial Services Location: Toronto, ON (hybrid) Duration: 6 months to start (possibility of extension) Rate: CAD55-CAD60/hr
Position Overview We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with a strong background in Capital Markets and Financial Services to join a high-performing team. The ideal candidate will have proven experience working with business and technology stakeholders, driving requirements gathering, facilitating discussions, and delivering complex initiatives across capital markets environments. Experience in Prime Brokerage is highly desirable but not mandatory.
Key Responsibilities Partner with business and technology stakeholders to gather, document, and validate business requirements. Lead workshops, stakeholder meetings, and requirements elicitation sessions. Analyze existing business processes and identify opportunities for improvement. Translate business needs into functional and technical requirements, user stories, process flows, and business documentation. Act as a liaison between business users, technology teams, project managers, and senior leadership. Drive project execution, issue resolution, and decision-making across multiple stakeholders. Support solution design, testing, implementation, and post-production activities. Facilitate UAT planning, execution, and defect management. Produce business process maps, gap analyses, and impact assessments. Ensure project deliverables align with strategic business objectives and regulatory requirements where applicable.
Required Qualifications 7+ years of Business Analysis experience within Capital Markets or Financial Services. Strong experience working directly with senior business and technology stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives independently and manage competing priorities. Experience gathering and documenting complex business requirements. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies. Proficiency in producing BRDs, FRDs, use cases, process flows, and user stories.
Preferred Qualifications Experience within Prime Brokerage environments. Exposure to Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, Trade Lifecycle, Securities, Equities, Fixed Income, or Derivatives. Knowledge of capital markets products, trading workflows, and post-trade processing. Experience working on regulatory, transformation, data, or platform modernization initiatives.
Key Skills Business Analysis Capital Markets Financial Services Requirements Gathering Stakeholder Management Process Mapping Gap Analysis Agile / Scrum User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Documentation & Reporting Prime Brokerage (Preferred) Communication & Leadership
Not the right fit? Search for Business Analyst jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Hays
We are leaders in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions, offering advisory services such as learning and skill development, career transitions and employer brand positioning.
As the Leadership Partner to our customers, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. We help you achieve your career goals and deliver your business needs by combining meaningful innovation with our global scale and insights.
Last year we helped over 280,000 people find their next career. Join the millions of people around the world that our specialist recruitment consultants provide with up-to-date information on career options, interesting insights and specific industry trends.
We help our customers define and implement strategies to create inclusive and equitable workplaces. Through harnessing and analysing data, we support business decision making and advise on how to access Talent Networks. We also assist in identifying attractive employer propositions by truly understanding a company’s identity, and support clients with all aspects of their Early Careers proposition, from strategic planning through to operational execution.
Hays is the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The c.12,800 people we employ around the world partner with clients and candidates to power the world of work. Every day our expert consultants help thousands of candidates find their next role, and they also help clients reshape workforces and deal with talent shortages. In the year to 30 June 2021, we placed 77,000 people in permanent jobs and 244,000 people into temporary roles. For more information about our global network, strategy and Group financial results, visit www.haysplc.com