Senior Business Systems Analyst

The Senior Business Systems Analyst is responsible for business analysis activities on medium to large size projects.

You will:

• Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities.
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates.
• Manage risks, assumptions, and constraints for requirements, and communicate them to appropriate parties.
• Define the business analysis approach, including tasks and deliverables, based on the project and delivery methodology.
• Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.
• Analyze and document the scope of the business solution using enterprise-standard requirements methodology.
• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise-standard requirements methodology.
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following enterprise standards.
• Provide consulting services to business stakeholders, including assisting in developing evaluation criteria for third-party vendors, evaluating third-party vendor solutions and requirements, and partnering with third-party vendors to ensure their requirements documentation adheres to RBC standards.
• Prepare requirements for review, applying various communication techniques, and lead requirements walkthrough and sign-off sessions.
• Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure the relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation.
• Communicate the impact of changes through cost-benefit analysis, considering time, effort, and business priorities.
• Resolve conflicts and issues on behalf of the BA team, and escalate as required.
• Support QA in developing functional system test cases.

To succeed, you will need:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a business systems analyst position
• Working as a Business Analyst with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of requirements management on large and complex projects
• Relevant college, university, or post-graduate degree in Business Analysis
• Requirements management and communication – requirements walkthroughs; scope and change management; traceability; configuration management, Backlog Management

Nice-to-have:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute –Professional in Business Analysis Certification (PMI – PBA)
• Masters Certificate in Business Analysis

The expected salary range for this particular position is $70,000-$130,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.