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Position: Senior Business Analyst – Corporate Governance
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hybrid, typically approximately one day onsite per week. Local candidates required; short-notice onsite meetings and occasional full onsite weeks may be required.
Structure: Full-time contract backfill with approximately 14 months remaining; 35 hours per week.
Start Date: To be confirmed, subject to the incumbent’s transition.
Compensation: To be confirmed.

Overview: CorGTA is supporting a utility organization in identifying an experienced Senior Business Analyst for a potential contract backfill opportunity. You will support enterprise planning and corporate governance initiatives, working closely with executives, directors and managers to assess gaps, improve workflows and implement practical processes for business planning, regulatory activities and board governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate discussions with executives, directors and managers to understand business needs and translate them into clear requirements and deliverables.

• Assess and document corporate governance activities, including board review and approval processes, annual business planning, strategy cycles and regulatory submissions.

• Conduct gap assessments and map current and future-state processes, clarifying responsibilities, approval requirements, handoffs and timelines.

• Develop improvement roadmaps, procedures, process documentation and tracking mechanisms to support consistent execution.

• Support business cases and cost models where needed to inform decisions and prioritize improvements.

• Validate proposed processes with stakeholders, incorporate feedback and support implementation.

• Establish documentation and monitoring practices that support traceability, accountability and audit readiness.

• Train process owners and users, support adoption and monitor whether implemented processes are being followed.

• Collaborate with the project team and PMO to track actions, dependencies and progress.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in business analysis, consulting or project delivery, including hands-on process assessment, documentation, improvement and implementation.

• Demonstrated ability to engage executives, directors and senior managers confidently and facilitate productive discussions.

• Experience supporting corporate governance, enterprise planning, recurring business planning or approval workflows.

• Ability to translate stakeholder input into clear requirements, process maps, procedures and implementation plans.

• Experience conducting gap assessments and developing practical improvement roadmaps.

• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication and organizational skills.

• Experience implementing processes, training stakeholders and supporting sustained adoption.

• Local availability in Halifax and flexibility to attend onsite meetings at short notice, including occasional full onsite weeks.

• Utilities, public-sector, regulatory or board governance experience is an asset.

• IT/business transformation, ITIL/ITSM, business case development and financial modelling experience are assets.

• An MBA, PMP certification or experience with HaloITSM, Enterprise Architect and Microsoft Project/Planner would be beneficial but is not mandatory.

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