Business Analyst III

Business Analyst III

Location : Toronto, ON

Duration : months with Possible Extension / Possible Contract to hire

Description :

Candidate profile details :

Degree / certifications required :

Years of experience : -yrs

Interaction with Stakeholders : %

Project Scope : governance and reporting

Team Size : ppl +

Ideal candidate background :

Ideally FI

Summary of day to day responsibilities :

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Portfolio Management and Governance (PMaG), the successful candidate will play an important role in operationalizing the PMaG processes within Business Banking in order to support work delivered in client Scaled Agility .

The successful candidate will also be accountable for partnering with peers, segment partners, Business Banking Journey teams and enterprise partners to support effective delivery in client and effective compliance with the Delivery Execution Framework (DEF).

Key accountabilities of this role include :

Lead development and implementation of PMaG processes.

Adhere to internal policies / procedures and applicable regulatory guidelines, contribute to the review of internal processes and activities, and assist in identifying potential opportunities to improve operational efficiencies.

Validate that work completed by Journeys adheres to the controls outlined in the NEW Delivery Policy and related Standards detailed on the DEF

Maintain consistently high governance and compliance results, by playing a lead role in the monitoring and control process, working with practitioners to improve areas noted as deficiencies or provide awareness to key stakeholders on DEF compliance opportunities.

Review work completed by teams to gauge the effectiveness of the control processes and identify and recommend areas requiring improvement.

Develop and provide assessments across Journeys and in aggregate for Business Banking related to uncovered DEF compliance themes and trends.

Monitor remediation of gaps and escalate recurring gaps to the Journey owner.

Verify that Journeys data in Jira adheres to defined Standards and interact with Journeys to address issues with data to ensure completeness and accuracy.

Develop and deliver presentations / communications to management or broader audiences.

Act as centralized expert in DEF policies and standards supporting inquiries from delivery practitioners and partners regarding best practices.

Work directly with internal Audit : conduct walkthroughs of processes; remediate audit findings. And provide support to Journeys who undergo audit for delivery of change initiatives.

Review any exception requests (deviations from DEF criteria); submit exception requests to EPMaG, document & communicate the decision to requestor and follow-up with Journeys on conditions / actions.

Support portfolio performance reporting, work with Journeys to review the results, assess trends & develop commentary and submit to EPMaG.

Must have :

Strong communicator with excellent oral and written skills.

Expert knowledge of Jira (filter queries) and Confluence.

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, also Word, PowerPoint).

Full understanding of Visio, and business process mapping functions

Experience using SharePoint, Teams, One Note.

Highly motivated individual with willingness to take initiative and propose pragmatic solutions to complex challenges and issues.

Acts with a high level of professionalism, has an innovative mindset and works well in a team environment.

Works effectively in a team environment and be able to interact with all levels of personnel from various functional areas.

Skills

Agile delivery experience years

Confluence and Jira years

Experience with SharePoint years

MS office years

MS Suites - Teams and SharePoint years

Ms Visio years