Business Analyst- Capital Markets

Montréal, QC
On-site
Posted Nov 4, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Posting language: English
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Job summary

Analyze and document the end-to-end derivatives client journey, from counterparty qualification through activation on trading platforms, coordinating across Front, Middle and Back Office, Credit, Compliance, and Legal. Produce requirements, use cases, and traceability matrices; facilitate cross-functional workshops and align with analysts across program pillars and executive stakeholders.

Job details

Mandate Overview: The client is looking for two senior business analysts for the Derivatives Onboarding pillar of a transformation program that also covers client master data and client lifecycle and compliance management. The target journey runs from counterparty qualification through activation on trading platforms and is currently fragmented across multiple systems and manual interventions. The value of the profile lies in combining three areas of expertise rarely found together: business knowledge of derivatives and their contractual and regulatory framework, end-to-end analysis of a client journey with six functions (Front, Middle and Back Office, Credit, Compliance, Legal), and rigorous requirements engineering in an Agile context. The role also requires alignment with analysts on the other two pillars and ease with executive stakeholders. Advanced English is required in addition to French. Candidate sought: a senior business analyst who has delivered at least one project on onboarding or client lifecycle for derivatives clients (rates, FX or equity) in Capital Markets, with ISDA, credit support annexes and reporting requirements on record. They produce requirements registers, use cases and traceability matrices themselves, and facilitate cross-functional workshops through to decision. Requirements Required: Experience on derivatives topics (rates, FX or equity), including client onboarding and account opening or client lifecycle Knowledge of derivatives, related contractual documentation and governing regulations Documenting an end-to-end client lifecycle with Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Credit, Compliance and Legal Writing requirements, use cases and traceability matrices, process modelling Understanding of IT and Agile, proficiency with Jira and Confluence Command of French, spoken and written Advanced English Preferred: Communicating with executive stakeholders and steering discussions toward decisions Managing ambiguity and dependencies across multiple program pillars French Speaking is mandatory

What you’ll do

Requirements

Candidates must have senior business analysis experience delivering at least one derivatives client onboarding or lifecycle project in Capital Markets, covering rates, FX, or equity derivatives and related contractual and regulatory requirements. They must be able to model end-to-end processes, create rigorous requirements documentation, work in an Agile environment using Jira and Confluence, and communicate in spoken and written French and advanced English.