Main Responsibilities:
- Act as a resource person for users
- Understand, identify and communicate business issues
- Play a key role in support maintenance, incident resolution, problem solving and continuous improvements
- Take ownership of complex problem-analysis assignments, recommend efficient solutions and being an enabler of their implementation
- Play a frontline role liaising between IT and business partners in terms of solution requirements translation into user stories and/or IT functional/ technical specifications
- Identify innovative solutions to the problems encountered in conjunction with designers, architects and developers
- Collect and analyze business needs
- Perform functional analysis, impact analysis, strategies and plans for testing and delivering solutions
- Ensure the quality of the solution in concert with the designers and the architect
- Participate in deliveries and support users during deployment
- Take a lead role into testing lifecycle (Regression, Integrated and UAT testing)
- Propose adjustments to business operations and system procedures with business analysts
- Provide complete and updated documentation
Profile and expertise
- Proficiency and experience as a Business/ Functional Analyst
- Experience in the financial investment industry and/or Experience in the private market investment
- Expertise in financial instruments and their lifecycles
Experience in development with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or more recent
Solid project experience
- Ability to lead workshops and training sessions
- Solid ability to produce and maintain documentation (for example system specifications, use cases, test scenarios, reports and presentations)
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills (French and English)
- Experience with Back-office and accounting processes in an investment context - an asset
- Knowledge of process modeling methodologies - an asset
- Knowledge of FrontInvest - an asset
Qualifications
5+ years of experience business and solution analysis experience in financial investment applications
Experience working with an agile team
- Customer focused and results driven
- Demonstrate analytical skills, with a structured approach and sense of priorities
- Dynamic, autonomous and highly motivated by new challenges
- Ability to maintain a good relationship of trust with different levels within the organization
- Excellent team spirit
- Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment and adaptability to change
- Ability to drive multiple activities simultaneously
- Good judgment, business acumen and keen ability to assess people, processes and products
- Ethics and professional integrity
Education
Bachelor in Business, Information Technologies, and/or the equivalent combination of education and experience
- Professional designation (CFA, CBAP/CCBA, FRM, PRM or CAIA) is an asset
Professional background
- 5 years of experience as a business and functional analysis