Business Analyst

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Your Opportunity

Reporting to the Director Finance / Project Accounting Solution Delivery, this position is responsible for engaging with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to translate their business needs into system solutions that achieve desired outcomes.

To accomplish this, the analyst develops a close relationship with designated business process leads and undertakes a disciplined approach to develop a keen understanding of business requirements and engages with system experts to design and validate system solutions.

This position will predominantly focus on Business Intelligence for Projects, and Clients and associated performance reporting.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Engaging with Business Process Leads to understand the business domain and current and future needs.
• Analyzing current state business processes, identifying pain-points, and developing recommendations for process / system improvement.
• Scoping business requirements and formulating a plan with the technical teams to optimally solicit detailed requirements to design and develop the solution most efficiently.
• Combining your domain experience with the business analysis discipline to perform the following activities :
• Conducting stakeholder workshops to elicit requirements.
• Developing process models and other project deliverables using Confluence, Jira or Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
• Assisting with technology assessment and selection.
• Facilitating formal user acceptance testing and participating in testing activities such as test case creation, execution, and issue resolution.
• Provide cross-team training, end user documentation and / or communication.
• Adhering to Stantec's Solution Delivery Framework and Change Management process requirements.
• Supporting cross-functional programs and projects that may include Finance, IT, Marketing, Project Accounting, and other user communities.
• Being an advocate for business process management.
• Processing service requests, coordinating and participating in testing and implementation for large scale upgrades and integrations.
• Assisting with day-to-day operational issues.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Strong customer service focus with demonstrated interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational, time management, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Excellent team player demonstrated by being held accountable to other team members while also holding other team members to their tasks.

Education and Experience

• Business Analysis experience working in a complex business environment.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a related field. A / E industry experience in project reporting considered an asset.
• Experience eliciting and documenting high-level and detailed requirements, including use cases.
• Experience in test planning, preparation, and execution. Experience with QA testing tools (qTest) a definite asset.
• Understanding and experience working with agile development practices would be a significant asset.
• Post-secondary degree; ideally related to Business or Management Information Systems. An IIBA certification, or substantial progress towards one, would be a significant asset.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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