Top Benefits
About the role
- Location: Toronto, Hybrid
- Contract Length: 12 Months
We at Raise are hiring a Business Analyst - IT - Advanced for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.
We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Daily Responsibilities
- Lead detailed requirement phases by identifying, tracking, escalating, and/or resolving business systems issues
- Assess, research, analyze, and document sponsor/stakeholder needs in accordance with the Project Life Cycle utilizing reporting tools and requirements.
- Identify, track, and resolve business systems issues
- Create or lead the development of detailed-level process maps to facilitate requirements gathering, gap analysis, and for training use
- Manage project documentation (implementation plan, issues log, process maps, reports, FTE analysis, etc.) and resolve emerging issues at the implementation stage of the project
- Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies
- Seeks input from the business by facilitating sessions
- Develop strategic training plan associated with introduction of new/enhanced the business processes
- Provide assistance with business user testing when required
- Develop and maintain strong relationship with business partners and internal/external team members
- Provide consulting services to business partners on new initiatives
- Identifies issues and escalates/manages resolution as required
Must-have Skills
- Minimum 8-10 years of professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment. Expert at requirements gathering, documentation, testing, and developing high-level plans.
- Proven experience in Agile methodology
- Proven ability to gather Business and Systems requirements independently, having strong business analysis and systems analysis skills.
- Solid understanding of system integration concepts and APIs
- Comfortable analyzing payloads (JSON/XML) mapping data elements to requirements
- Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
- Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders. Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15–20 or more).
- Excellent collaboration skills, attention to detail, gap analysis, and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time. Experience working on medium to large projects—over $2 million.
- Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modeling tools (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)
Nice-to-have Skills
- CBAP
- Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis
- Prior experience in enterprise-level and mobile projects
- Past testing experience in APIs using Postman.
- Knowledge of current Accessibility standards.
Looking for meaningful work? We can help! Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/
In order to submit candidates for roles, our clients will sometimes require personal information to confirm the identity of applicants and their legal status to work. Raise will never ask you for personal or banking information unless you have been selected for a job. If you are ever unsure about the legitimacy of this or another job posting by Raise (or have any other questions), please contact us at +1 800-567-9675 or hello@raiserecruiting.com
Top Benefits
About the role
- Location: Toronto, Hybrid
- Contract Length: 12 Months
We at Raise are hiring a Business Analyst - IT - Advanced for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.
We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Daily Responsibilities
- Lead detailed requirement phases by identifying, tracking, escalating, and/or resolving business systems issues
- Assess, research, analyze, and document sponsor/stakeholder needs in accordance with the Project Life Cycle utilizing reporting tools and requirements.
- Identify, track, and resolve business systems issues
- Create or lead the development of detailed-level process maps to facilitate requirements gathering, gap analysis, and for training use
- Manage project documentation (implementation plan, issues log, process maps, reports, FTE analysis, etc.) and resolve emerging issues at the implementation stage of the project
- Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies
- Seeks input from the business by facilitating sessions
- Develop strategic training plan associated with introduction of new/enhanced the business processes
- Provide assistance with business user testing when required
- Develop and maintain strong relationship with business partners and internal/external team members
- Provide consulting services to business partners on new initiatives
- Identifies issues and escalates/manages resolution as required
Must-have Skills
- Minimum 8-10 years of professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment. Expert at requirements gathering, documentation, testing, and developing high-level plans.
- Proven experience in Agile methodology
- Proven ability to gather Business and Systems requirements independently, having strong business analysis and systems analysis skills.
- Solid understanding of system integration concepts and APIs
- Comfortable analyzing payloads (JSON/XML) mapping data elements to requirements
- Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
- Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders. Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15–20 or more).
- Excellent collaboration skills, attention to detail, gap analysis, and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time. Experience working on medium to large projects—over $2 million.
- Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modeling tools (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)
Nice-to-have Skills
- CBAP
- Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis
- Prior experience in enterprise-level and mobile projects
- Past testing experience in APIs using Postman.
- Knowledge of current Accessibility standards.
Looking for meaningful work? We can help! Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/
In order to submit candidates for roles, our clients will sometimes require personal information to confirm the identity of applicants and their legal status to work. Raise will never ask you for personal or banking information unless you have been selected for a job. If you are ever unsure about the legitimacy of this or another job posting by Raise (or have any other questions), please contact us at +1 800-567-9675 or hello@raiserecruiting.com