•High-Impact Project: Work on a project specific to real-time payments that is undergoing significant transformation.
•Collaborative Culture: Join a team of 5 people with a collaborative and supporting work environment.
•Potential for Extension/Conversion: The contract has a likely possibility of extension and a possibility of conversion to a full-time employee based on performance and business needs.


Responsibilities
The primary responsibilities of this Senior Business Analyst role include, but are not limited to:
•Lead Business Requirements: Lead the end-to-end business requirements throughout the project lifecycle, maintaining a customer-centric focus and collaborating with stakeholders from lines of business, technology, operations, and governance & control.
•Risk Management: Proactively identify and manage requirement risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.
•Change Management: Contribute to Change Management deliverables (e.g., stakeholder analysis, gap analysis) to ensure readiness across all stakeholder groups.
•Requirements Alignment: Apply a variety of business analysis tools and techniques to solicit requirements and ensure they align with business and Enterprise Payments' needs and strategies.
•Technology Collaboration: Collaborate with technology partners, providing recommendations toward system requirements and design to ensure alignment with business requirements.
•Quality Assurance (QA): Contribute to QA activities by supporting the development of test strategies, plans, and scenarios, and actively participating in the assessment and resolution of testing defects.
•Governance: Adhere to Enterprise Project Management governance and controls to ensure requirement deliverables meet best practices and standards.
•Mentorship: Contribute to team development by mentoring colleagues and sharing knowledge and experiences.
•Stakeholder Interaction: Approximately 50% of the role involves interaction with stakeholders.


Qualifications
Must-Have Skills
•Experience: 8–10 years of overall experience.
•Financial Institution Experience: Previous Lead Business Analyst experience within a financial institution.
•Payments Expertise: Experience with payments, specifically Interac e-transfers or real-time payments within the banking sector.
•Stakeholder Management: Proven experience with stakeholder management.
•Target State: Experience defining target state business processes.
•Soft Skills: Strong communication (written and verbal), team player/leadership skills, negotiation skills, and facilitation skills.
•Education: Post secondary degree/certifications required.

Nice-to-Have Skills
•Agile experience.
•Business Analyst certification.



Summary
Join a dynamic and critical capability center that is driving the future of payments. This role, reporting to the Senior Manager, Real-Time Rails (RTR), is key to managing and delivering business analysis activities for complex, cross-functional projects, specifically the
Real-Time Rails (RTR) initiative. You will play a collaborative, supporting role within a 5-person team focused on payments-based projects.



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