Business Analyst

1 month ago

Ottawa, Canada Canada Foundation for Innovation Full time

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**Job Opportunity**

**Business analyst
**Summary**

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, Information Systems (IS) of the Canada Foundation for Innovation,
the Business Analyst works with stakeholders to identify user requirements, perform business process
analysis, evaluate potential solutions and document design specif ications for IS development and
maintenance projects.

The business analyst is tasked with helping business meet its objectives and goals by understanding how
work is being conducted, and through analysis, determine solutions to the issues. The solution could include
training, process change, modif ications to business rules, modif ications to or implementation of new
technology solutions, or a combination of all four.

The business analyst will identify, develop and implement ef fective solutions that address smaller less
complex initiatives. Business requirements will be traced through to test plans and cases, reducing time to fix
issues and identify anomalies.

**Key Activities**
- Identif ies, documents and validates functional user requirements for system developments and

maintenance through the use of appropriate business analysis techniques (interviews, JAD
sessions, research, prototyping, etc.)
- Designs conceptual data models and use-cases, where appropriate
- Identif ies potential solutions and recommends the most appropriate solution; based on requirements,
- practicality, technology options and project constraints- Documents detailed specif ications packages for developers
- Liaises with developers to ensure that specif ications are clearly understood and to resolve any
- issues that arise during development- Determines the best approach to testing and documents test plans
- Oversees the testing process (system and user acceptance testing)
- Executes system testing of developments
- Provides project management guidance and expertise to project stakeholders
- Fosters relationships between project stakeholders and IS by communicating and managing
- expectations- Assists in project scheduling, time/resource estimates and scoping
- Assists in negotiating and building consensus among stakeholders
- Follows existing business analysis processes and contributes to further ref ining these processes.

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**Business Analyst
**Qualifications**

University or College level education, preferably in Information Systems (or equivalent); in addition to:
Minimum 2 years of relevant business analysis experience, as def ined below:

- Gathering, analyzing, evaluating and validating user requirements
- Preparing detailed specifications for developers from which solutions are developed, designed,
- coded and tested- Mapping out process f lows
- Project management
- Developing test plans and coordinating user acceptance testing
- Working with web forms and with databases
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Knowledge of business analysis best practices
- Knowledge of databases and of conceptual data modeling
- Knowledge of sof tware development lifecycles
- Ability to take initiative, work independently and to contribute as a team player
- Familiarity with the research community and, in particular, the granting industry.

**Assets**
- Fluency in both English and French (written and spoken)
- Strong skills in Excel, Visio, Axure.
- Experience with Information Management projects
- Business Analysis Professional certif ication (IIBA-CCBA; or PMI-PBA; or equivalent)
- Knowledge of technology used in the CFI environment including:

- Oracle database and Java environment, specif ically database queries and scripting;
- Microsof t Dynamics including PowerBI,
- AccessDB including VBA;
- business intelligence sof tware (e.g. Cognos)

Salary will be commensurate with qualif ications and experience.

**This is a full-time position in a hybrid work environment, requiring a minimum of two days per week**
**at the CFI offices.**

**Please send your CV and a covering letter by end of day on September 25, 2023 to**

Eric Desjardins

Manager, Human Resources

Canada Foundation for Innovation,

55 Metcalfe Street, Suite 1100

Ottawa ON K1P 5E4

contacted.

Canada Foundation for Innovation | Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation 2

**Business Analyst**

The Canada Foundation for Innovation supports official languages principles, and respects Ontario’s Accessibility

Standard for Customer Service policy. We attempt to acco mmodate individual needs in keeping with the Ontario Human

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