Senior Business Analyst

Are You Ready to Lead Enterprise Financial & Insurance Transformation? Are you a Senior Business Analyst with years of dedicated experience authoring detailed, actionable user stories in Azure DevOps (ADO)? Do you bring deep domain knowledge across financial systems, insurance reporting, corporate accounting, or loan underwriting platforms? Looking for a 100% Remote 1-year contract mandate with a premier national financial institution? If so, we invite you to explore this high-impact opportunity!

Our client, a major national financial Crown corporation, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their Business Services team. In this role, you will act as a pivotal bridge between business stakeholders, technical developers, and vendor partners. You will lead business analysis efforts for enterprise financial platforms, insurance reporting systems, and corporate accounting modules, translating complex operational needs into clear Agile artifacts in Azure DevOps and guiding solutions through UAT execution.

Advantages
100% Remote Autonomy: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada with zero travel requirements.
Enterprise Modernization Scope: Play a key role in optimizing core financial accounting, insurance reporting, and risk systems.
1-Year Contract Commitment: Enjoy full 12-month mandate stability.

Responsibilities
- User Stories & Requirements in ADO: Elicit, define, and document clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps (ADO) to guide engineering teams.
- Domain Analysis & Reporting: Analyze financial systems, insurance data inconsistencies, and corporate accounting workflows to optimize transaction accuracy and reporting.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner daily with Product Owners, developers, IT architects, and testers to align team OKRs, perform root-cause analysis (RCA), and triage problem tickets/bugs.
- UAT & Functional Troubleshooting: Support business users through User Acceptance Testing (UAT) execution, functional troubleshooting, defect resolution, and pre-launch validation.
- System Upgrades & Vendor Alignment: Coordinate upgrade testing activities, present issues to software vendors, and support deployment approvals.

Qualifications
- Financial & Insurance Domain Depth: Proven hands-on business analysis experience working with financial systems, insurance reporting, corporate accounting, or loan underwriting/management applications.
- Azure DevOps User Stories: recent years of dedicated experience authoring high-quality, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria inside Azure DevOps (ADO).
- Agile Leadership: recent years applying Agile methodologies while collaborating across multidisciplinary product teams.
- UAT & Functional Testing: Demonstrated track record supporting business stakeholders through UAT execution, functional troubleshooting, and deployment sign-offs.
- Asset Qualifications: Practical experience or familiarity with Power BI for financial or insurance reporting analytics.
- Ability to create screen mockups and visual artifacts using tools such as Miro or Mural.
- Specific background supporting commercial insurance platforms, credit underwriting, or investment management software.

Summary
If you meet the above-listed criteria, register for a Randstad account online if you have not yet registered, and please apply directly online. We appreciate all applicants and those interested in this opportunity, however, only those with relevant experience will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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