Business Analyst

**Business Analyst - Securities Processing**

**About the Role**:
As a Business Analyst, you will be instrumental in bridging the gap between business and technology. You will collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and technical teams to analyze complex business requirements, design innovative solutions, and ensure successful implementation.

**Key Responsibilities**:

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Client Engagement**:

- Build strong relationships with clients to understand their business needs and challenges.
- Conduct in-depth interviews, workshops, and requirements gathering sessions.
- ** Requirement Elicitation**:

- Elicit, analyze, and document comprehensive business requirements, including functional and non-functional requirements.
- Create clear and concise business requirement documents (BRDs).
- ** Process Analysis**:

- Analyze existing business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop process flows and data flow diagrams to visualize business processes.
- ** Solution Design**:

- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define high-level solution requirements.
- Identify potential solutions and evaluate their feasibility.
- ** Change Management**:

- Assess the impact of proposed changes on business operations.
- Develop and implement change management plans to minimize disruption.
- ** Technical Analysis**:

- Analyze technical requirements and system capabilities to identify potential gaps and risks.
- Collaborate with technical teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- ** Data Analysis**:

- Analyze data to identify trends, patterns, and insights.
- Develop data models and data flows to support business requirements.
- ** System Design**:

- Define system functionalities and user interfaces.
- ** Testing**:

- Develop test cases and test scripts to validate system functionality.
- Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT).
- ** Post-Implementation Support**:

- Provide post-implementation support, including troubleshooting and training.

**Essential Qualifications and Skills**:

- Minimum of 7-10 years of experience as a Business Analyst within the financial services industry, with a strong focus on securities processing.
- Strong understanding of securities operations, including trade lifecycle, settlement, and reconciliation.
- Proven ability to analyze complex business problems and develop practical solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Fluency in both English and French.

**Preferred Qualifications and Skills**:

- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Knowledge of data analysis and reporting tools (e.g., PowerBI).
- Understanding of industry standards and regulations.
- Global collaboration experience.
- A degree in Finance, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field.

By clearly differentiating between business analysis and functional analysis, this revised job description provides a more accurate representation of the role's responsibilities and the required skillset.

**Languages**: French, English.

**Required**: Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate effectively with US-based colleagues and partners.

**Hybrid Role**: While we offer a flexible work arrangement, this role requires a 50% on-site commitment at our Montreal office.

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**Analyste d'affaires - Traitement des titres**

**À propos du poste**:
En tant qu'analyste d'affaires, vous contribuerez à combler le fossé entre les affaires et la technologie. Vous collaborerez avec les clients, les parties prenantes et les équipes techniques pour analyser les exigences commerciales complexes, concevoir des solutions innovantes et assurer une mise en œuvre réussie.

**Principales responsabilités**:

- ** Engagement client**:

- Établir des relations solides avec les clients pour comprendre leurs besoins et défis commerciaux.
- Mener des entretiens approfondis, des ateliers et des séances de collecte des exigences.
- ** Élicitation des exigences**:

- Éliciter, analyser et documenter les exigences commerciales complètes, y compris les exigences fonctionnelles et non fonctionnelles.
- Créer des documents d'exigences commerciales clairs et concis (BRD).
- ** Analyse des processus**:

- Analyser les processus commerciaux existants pour identifier les inefficacités et les opportunités d'amélioration.
- Élaborer des flux de processus et des diagrammes de flux de données pour visualiser les processus commerciaux.
- ** Conception de solutions**:

- Collaborer avec les parties prenantes de l'entreprise pour définir les exigences de solution de haut niveau.
- Identifier les solutions potentielles et évaluer leur faisabilité.
- ** Gestion du changement**:

- Évaluer l'impact des changements proposés sur les opérations commerciales.
- Élaborer et mettre en œuvre des plans de gestion du changement pour minimiser les