Business Analyst - Finance/Treasury

Our client is a Canadian multinational energy company. They focus on transportation, distribution, and generation of energy, primarily in North America.

They have a long history in the responsible development and reliable and safe operation of North American energy infrastructure.

They are one of the continent’s largest providers of energy storage and related services.

They are currently looking for a Business Analyst Treasury / Finance for their Calgary, AB location.

Job Description

The ideal candidate will have experience with eliciting business requirements, facilitating workshops, developing process descriptions and procedural documentation, building workflows, documenting standards and policies.

It is also important for the candidate to have experience and strength in managing complex business scenarios and dynamic stakeholder groups and ensuring effective synchronizations between competing corporate initiatives.

Also, given the nature of the work, the successful candidate would ideally be able to adjust work hours to be periodically engage in early morning or evening meetings with offshore stakeholders.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Elicit business requirements using requirements gathering sessions, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis and develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Lead and participate in process reviews or development and updates to or creation of associated documentation working with stakeholders, collaborating with analysts from Finance teams.
• Participate in standards and process creation, reviews, updates, development and documentation
• Deliver and / or participate in standards, policies or process education and awareness
• Successfully engage, drive and facilitate multiple initiatives and deliverables simultaneously
• Work independently with users to define concepts or workflows and under direction of project managers and key business stakeholders.
• Develop test / QA and transition strategy plans and documentation
• Document test outcomes and manage defect resolution processes
• Develop detailed documentation including process flows and use cases.
• Collaborate with project team members, internal stakeholders, and external banks including subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs
• Facilitate discussions on process re-engineering options where applicable to switch from manual process to electronic, automated options.
• Be the liaison between the project teams, technology teams and support teams
• Manage and execute on required stakeholder and client engagement across project deliverables to support project plan and scope outline
• Collaborate with project team members to progress the project forward as per project plan and scope outline
• Work closely with People Readiness team (OCM, Communications, Learning) to help identify / validate stakeholder change impacts, provide technical review of communications and contribute to training curriculum and learning content
• Manage and participate in Transition to Operations scope and activities for services and / or products built by the project team
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed : functional requirements (business requirements document), use cases, workflow diagrams, and context diagrams
• Engagement in QA activities, including requirements validation and traceability, where applicable.

Capabilities :

To ensure the effective execution of responsibilities, the Business Analyst should demonstrate a high proficiency in the following key technical and behavioral competencies :

• Analytical / critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• System (big picture) thinking
• Industry knowledge
• Ability to understand the business architecture being analyzed
• Solution knowledge
• Verbal communication
• Written communication
• Facilitation & negotiation
• Influence without authority
• Teamwork

POSITION REQUIREMENTS :

• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
• At least 10 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar capacity
• Direct working experience or project experience in Finance / Treasury business projects. Experience in banking projects and / or Asia-Pacific banking structure would be considered an asset.
• Oil &Gas / Energy industry experience would be considered an asset
• Organization and relationship building skills
• Highly effective communicator
• Displays emotional intelligence; demonstrates self-awareness and remains calm under pressure

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