Business Analyst

A CDPQ subsidiary, Otéra Capital is a leader in commercial real estate debt, recognized for its expertise, professionalism, and reliability.

Otéra's success is largely based on the talent, expertise, and complementarity of its employees. We offer an environment that is both stimulating and dynamic, where we pursue excellence, we care, we innovate, we take ownership, and we collaborate. Otéra employees benefit from a competitive global compensation package, as well as professional development and wellness programs.

**Your role**:
Reporting to the Director, Data Governance and Reporting, the Business Analyst identifies business change requirements for the development of new products, tools, functionalities or data in IT systems. He.she takes responsibility for the implementation, support, impact assessment, identification and documentation of functional requirements. He.she ensures delivery requirements and must be able to provide solution assessments for operational, functional or technological needs, analyzing systems, requirements, data, in order to deliver the expected value to the various business areas.

**Your responsibilities**:
**Development**:

- Collect business needs for new products, functionalities, data, analytics, analyze them and translate them into functional documents and models required for technical developments;
- Develop functional requirements, recommendations, project plans and integrate feasibility studies if necessary;
- Design and finalize new products and ideas based on business needs in coordination with the IT team;
- Ensure efficiency, compliance, and timeliness from product development to launch;
- Review and improve product and service features and requirements;
- Coordinate the building and improvement of tools required by all business areas;
- Develop and submit requirements for changes or added functionality to systems;
- Create functional documents for each data issue requiring system modifications;
- Collaborate with programmers, modelers to identify data process improvement opportunities and recommend system changes;
- Create process models, specifications, diagrams and graphics to provide guidance to developers and/or the project team;
- Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications to business requirements to stakeholders so that problems and solutions are understood;
- Participate in all stages of development to ensure deliverables meet identified business needs;
- Participate in the testing of new systems during product/service launches;
- Train business lines on new systems as they are launched in coordination with the IT team
- Implement and improve workflows for new and existing products;
- Work closely with data analysts and the technical function to design appropriate data architectures and models;
- Develop and maintain data taxonomy by working closely with data stewards and analysts (business terms, business rules, glossary)
- Assist in the preparation of discussion documents for data governance committee meetings.

**Initiative Management**:

- Implement plans and schedules in coordination with all project stakeholders;
- Coordinate new and existing business line requests - act as a bridge between the business lines and the IT team;
- Liaise with business lines to articulate data and functionality issues and help develop solutions;
- Prioritize the schedule and scope of activities;
- Ensure efficiency, compliance and timeliness of production from the product / tool/ feature development to launch.

**Your profile**:

- Bachelor's degree in management or business administration with a specialization in information technology;
- Or Bachelor 's degree in computer science, information technology or an engineering degree (computer engineering, IT engineering, data engineering and analytics).
- 5 to 7 years of professional experience in the field of business analysis, specializing in technology programs;
- Experience in banking or finance is a substantial asset;
- Technical skills include knowledge of database languages such as SQL, R or Python; spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel, and data visualization software such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik. Mathematical and statistical skills are also required to assist in collecting, measuring, organizing, and analyzing data;
- Technical expertise regarding data models;
- Expertise in the use of analytical and reporting tools;
- Expertise in visualization tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or others;
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server BI Platform (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, data model, DBMS, SQL queries)
- Experience using software packages to analyze data sets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, R, etc.).
- Knowledge of dimensional modeling and information systems architecture;
- Experience with Agile methodology tools;
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate large amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy;
- Ability to review, interpret and extract importan