Business Analyst, Trading Platform

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This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced team, working to support our partners within OMERS Capital Markets, Total Portfolio Management, and Corporate Finance, while performing functions to deliver on our pension promise. The team supports investment professionals on a day-to-day basis, as well ongoing projects to delivery new capabilities, refine workflows, and align to the strategic roadmap. The incumbent will be responsible for providing business systems analysis, development & maintenance support for investment applications. The incumbent will function in a team-oriented context with opportunities for interacting directly with investment business partners.

Scope of Position

Reporting to the Manager, Trading Platform, Capital Markets Finance, the Business Analyst role responsibilities include defining business specifications for new solutions & integrations, developing test plans, upgrading applications, developing reporting and troubleshooting data issues. The role requires an excellent understanding of investment business processes and experience maintaining & supporting investment applications combined with excellent analytical project work skills, including requirements analysis and documentation, root cause analysis of production issues, testing of application or integration changes, and implementation change management. The position requires strong analytical skills coupled with investment operations knowledge (both Front, Middle & Back Office) and systems implementation and application maintenance experience. It requires strong interpersonal, organizational and project management skills combined with the ability to readily adapt to rapidly changing investment and technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Acquires detailed knowledge of the business uses of the applications and services (in both Investment Front Office and Investment Operations context) currently implemented in support of our partners and provides proactive application support to individual users to assist in meeting business program objectives.
• Provides business system analysis support in approved projects with respect to the identification of automation opportunities, assistance in workflow design development, and software evaluations.
• Assumes responsibilities in project activities including the definition of business requirements, design and implementation of system interfaces, testing, documentation, upgrades of investment applications, data conversions and reconciliations.
• Provides support to users in the development of new reports and in the resolution of reporting and other data issues.
• Provides problem solving, troubleshooting of issues, and consulting support for newly implemented investment system functions.
• Assumes responsibilities in developing test cases, implementation plans, defining workflow solutions, controls, standards, and naming conventions within applications.
• Develops user manuals, application documentation and application training programs.
• Develops effective working relationships with investment management and operations groups, custodian, auditors, systems vendors, and others in the industry.
• Works cross-functionally with other analysts within the group / floor, IT Infrastructure, and Vendors as appropriate to facilitate the roll-out and ongoing support of major application additions, enhancements, workflows, and upgrades for our partners.

Qualifications

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We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.The expected salary range for this position is $72,000.00 - $108,000.00 per year.

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our committee and employee recognition programs.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.