Functional Analyst

**Primary Locations**:Montreal, Quebec**:
**Attendance**:Hybrid**:
**Employee Status**:Regular**:
**Schedule**:Full-time**:
National Bank is carrying out the biggest technology upgrade in its history. We’re reviewing our systems and processes to simplify them and align them more closely with our clients’ needs.
- Do you love technology?
- Do you enjoy working on hands-on projects?
- Are you naturally inquisitive? Do you like challenging the status quo?

Come work in the Banking Transaction Assets - Backend sector. The team is looking for a talented functional analyst to help roll out new technology as part of its business initiatives.

If you’re passionate about what you do, like taking initiative and working with a team, read on

**Your role**:

- Understand business issues, identify and analyze the needs of clients and business partners, document requests, and prepare recommendations to design or adapt systems to meet those needs and facilitate decision-making
- Conduct various complex analyses, identify discrepancies, and make recommendations to optimize system efficiency and resolve major issues
- Draw up validation and quality control procedures based on established development standards and norms and perform extensive testing to ensure that any systems developed or modified are adequate

**More specifically, you will**:

- Participate in various project activities
- Prepare or participate in the assessment of new needs (development projects and change requests)
- Conduct functional analyses
- Participate in tests (test plan and sets, test execution and verification)
- Review processes and propose improvements
- Participate in document updates
- Meet architecture targets
- Support other employees for project implementation and change requests, as needed.

We want to contribute to your quality of life by offering you as much flexibility as possible in your work. For example, we offer hybrid work (remote and in the office), work schedule arrangements to help you achieve work/life balance and flexible leave that you can take when it’s important to you.

**Your profile**:

- Bachelor's degree or other degree in a related field and 5 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge of mainframes (IBM 390 mainframe), an asset
- Experience in the banking and/or financial services industry, an asset
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office suite and collaboration tools
- Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Knowledge of JIRA/Tempo/Confluence
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to synthesize information
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work as part of a team
- Strong time and priority management skills
- A versatile self-starter
- Detail-oriented and diligent
- Knowledge of written and spoken French.

**Your benefits**:
In addition to competitive compensation, upon hiring you’ll be eligible for a wide range of flexible benefits to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family.
- Health and wellness program, including many options
- Flexible group insurance
- Generous pension plan
- Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Preferential banking services
- Initiatives promoting community involvement
- Telemedicine service
- Virtual sleep clinic

These are a few of the benefits available to you. We have an offer that keeps up with trends as well as your needs and those of your family.

Our dynamic work environments and cutting-edge collaboration tools foster a positive employee experience. We actively listen to employees’ ideas. Whether through our surveys or programs, regular feedback and ongoing communication is encouraged.

**We're putting people first**:
We're a bank on a human scale that stands out for its courage, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people. Our mission is to have a positive impact on peoples' lives.

Our core values of partnership, agility, and empowerment inspire us, and inclusivity is central to our commitments. We offer a barrier-free workplace that is accessible to all employees.

We want our recruitment process to be fully accessible. If you require accommodations, feel free to let us know during your first conversations with us.

**Ready to live your ambitions?**

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