The opportunity The Senior Business Analyst (Cyber Security) plays a key role in enabling Enterprise Security initiative delivery. This is a highly technical Business Analyst role , requiring a deep understanding of cyber security concepts, systems, and architectures.

The role focuses on translating complex business needs into detailed technical requirements, partnering closely with engineering and security teams, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with organizational goals. It combines business analysis leadership with strong cyber security advisory capabilities to guide secure solution design and execution.

Who You'll Work With

• Reporting to the Director, Cyber Security, you will work within the Enterprise Security team under Technology Services. The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional partners, including development, testing, operations, IT security, and external vendors and peers, to ensure secure and high‑quality solution delivery.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to gather requirements, track progress, identify risks, and resolve blockers.
• Capture, validate, and translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications, configuration needs, and functional designs.
• Prioritize requirements and user stories in alignment with project milestones and timelines.
• Produce high‑quality analysis documentation including requirements, workflows, current/future‑state processes, and reporting specifications
• Analyze existing and future business processes, identify improvement opportunities, and model workflows.
• Support testing activities to confirm that implemented solutions meet documented requirements.
• Oversee defect management and develop mitigation strategies to ensure solution quality
• Provide advisory and consulting services to ensure security requirements and best practices are embedded throughout design, development, and delivery
• Make recommendations based on analysis of cyber security trends, threats, technologies, and good practices.
• Partner with vendors to ensure solutions meet organizational requirements and quality expectations
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, representing Enterprise Security in relevant working groups
• Recommend and implement enhancements to processes, tools, and delivery practices to improve efficiency and solution quality

What You'll Do

• Engages business clients to elicit business requirements and understand objectives and works with business and solution teams to ensure that solutions being delivered meet their business intent and provide business value
• Conceives, proposes and facilitates the selection of viable functional solution alternatives
• Produces business analysis related documentation, functional specifications, current and future state processes and workflows, and solution specifications to a high-quality standard
• Identifies internal and external data sources and delivers data mapping specifications and or data workspaces to support applications and reports
• Works with Data Vendor Manager and business partners, when needed, to assess data costs and facilitate acquisition of new external vendor content
• Documents the flow and transformation of data from suppliers through data repositories/warehouses and to end user datamarts/applications
• Provides input and influences Solution design to achieve business outcomes including detailed profiling to inform new data models whilst understanding the strategic direction of MS curated data
• Understands and leverages physical data models including relational models, cubes, dimensions, facts and measures for use in reports and analytics
• Provides effective business context, solution knowledge, artifact transfer to Support teams as part of progressing initiatives to Production
• Demonstrates requirements traceability and, oversees User Acceptance phase of initiatives (define strategy, plan, approve test cases, lead all aspects of execution). Works with Business, Product Owner, Solution Engineering and QA to ensure built solutions meet stated requirements
• Works with senior management across partner teams to define initiative scope on new projects/product developments
• Leads in the initiation and planning of new projects including facilitating the definition of objectives, scope, BA approach and WBS as well as provides work estimates
• Works with Development and QA teams to inform the test strategy and develops test plans and ensure they understand the business requirements and can test solutions appropriately
• Works across Service and Product teams and strategizes with PMs and SDM/POs to identify interdependencies and establish delivery plans
• Leads discussions and meetings to achieve desired outcomes with a variety of technical and business audiences (including senior partners).
• Partners with Product Owners/Service Request Managers to delivery business value messaging to partners and sponsors
• Works with Agile delivery teams to map user stories and define user acceptance criteria for work packages
• Contributes to the operation and improvement of the delivery team
• Exercises appropriate judgment in identifying and calling out risks and issues
• Coaches and develops other more junior Bas or other delivery team members
• Mentors BAs in the team through feedback, documents review, role modelling, training and experience sharing

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) or equivalent is an asset
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent is an asset
• A cybersecurity certification, such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent is an asset.
• Data Management experience and database knowledge, PowerBI, using SQL (e.g. Oracle, Snowflake) is an asset.
• Process Improvement Methodology such as Lean or Six Sigma accreditation is an asset
• Minimum 10 years experience in business analysis execution, preferably in a financial institution environment
• Minimum 5 years experience leading complex end to end initiatives in senior business analyst capacity
• Experienced in implementing/enhancing applications and tools including IAM, SIEM, SASE, ServiceNow solutions using JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Proven experience in facilitating delivery of complex projects with competing priorities.
• Experience with and understanding of leading practices in business analysis, project management and process improvement
• Ability to translate business requirements to technical specifications
• Cyber security or information security experience in the financial services industry is considered an asset.
• Agility in adapting to new challenges, tools, and methodologies.
• Past experience with cloud migration is highly valued.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in team environments
• Ability to prioritize, coordinate and complete tasks to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership, initiative and ownership
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with all levels of management and staff
• Resourcefulness, creativity and sound judgment

, , What We’re Offering

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage
• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
• The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program
• A flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• Competitive time off
• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year
• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

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Functional Areas Corporate Services

Vacancy Current

Requisition ID 6854