Business Analyst

Business Analyst

On behalf of our client Procom is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Business Analyst. The successful candidate will be involved in critical Finance / Treasury related initiatives, focusing on corporate banking for offshore businesses enabled by innovative solutions.

This role is a 12 month contract and is 4 days in office and one remote in Downtown Calgary, Alberta..

Business Analyst Job Details :

Our Client is hiring technical and business-focused Business Analysts. Successful candidate could be assigned to Finance / treasury related initiatives, particularly corporate banking for offshore businesses that will be enabled by the implementation of selected solutions.

This role will report to a project manager and work closely with business / functional area SMEs, and provide overall project planning, management, coordination, and execution for assigned projects.

Project stakeholders are located in Calgary as well as internationally.

This opportunity will appeal to an individual who enjoys working as an individual and in a team environment, and who demonstrates effective critical thinking, problem-solving and facilitation skills, is adaptable and able effectively complete deliverables in a timely fashion.

This Business Analyst will also utilize standard best practices as required to support the activity execution, and has a key understanding of transition to operations, and development of processes and procedures.

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.

• 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.

Business Analyst Mandatory Skills :

• At least 10 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst or similar role.
• Direct experience in Finance / Treasury business projects, with specific experience in banking projects and / or Asia-Pacific banking structures.
• Proven ability to manage complex business scenarios and dynamic stakeholder groups.
• Strong capabilities in analytical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and facilitating negotiations.

Business Analyst Desired Skills :

• Experience in the Oil & Gas / Energy industry is considered an asset.
• Exceptional organizational and relationship-building skills.
• High proficiency in communication, demonstrating emotional intelligence and maintaining composure under pressure.

Business Analyst Start Date :

Anticipated start date is mid-May 2024.

Business Analyst Location :

The position is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at the downtown office.