Hybrid Business Analyst

at McCarthy Tétrault

• Job title: Business Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Business Analyst developing and managing projects at Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto. Responsible for gathering requirements, managing project teams, and delivering project documentation.

Responsibilities

• Gathering and documenting business requirements through interviews, workshops, and analysis of existing processes.
• Analyzing and evaluating business processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Translating business needs into functional specifications for technical teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborating with project managers, developers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on project objectives and deliverables.
• Developing process maps, workflows, and use cases to support solution design and implementation.
• Performing data analysis and reporting to support decision-making and validate business requirements.
• Facilitating stakeholder meetings and workshops to clarify requirements and manage expectations.
• Supporting testing and quality assurance activities by creating test cases and validating solutions against requirements.
• Monitoring project progress and provide status updates to stakeholders, ensuring timely delivery of milestones.
• Assisting in change management and training activities to ensure smooth adoption of new processes or systems.
• Managing Small to Medium Projects and Project teams.
• Building and leading the project team.
• Providing direction as required to meet the project objectives and commitments.
• Creating and executing project work plans.
• Gathering business and technical requirements for proposed projects and establishing appropriate project design through a full understanding of business requirements.
• Managing changing priorities to complete project delivery within defined constraints.
• Identifying resources needed and assigning individual responsibilities; supporting and utilization of McCarthy Tetrault project resource management processes and tools.
• Managing day-to-day operational aspects of projects and/or programs including scope and deliverables.
• Applying MT project management methodology effectively, utilizing MT project management processes and tools to enforce project standards and meet requirements for MT PMO reporting.
• Developing an appropriate risk management plan on all projects, ensuring timely response and escalation of issues that can lead to unexpected changes in time, quality, scope and budget.
• Applying Change Management principles and tools to enhance successful operationalization of projects.
• Ensuring project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Working closely and maintaining strong work relationships with stakeholders and sponsors from all functional areas of business.
• Developing and maintaining key project documentation, including the project plan, periodic reports, schedule, issues, quality and risk documents.
• Conducting appropriate project meetings, including Project Kickoff, Team and Steering Committee meetings.
• Overseeing key project components including communication plans, change management plans, training plans, testing plans and roll-out plans.
• Ensuring sufficient communication is taking place, at an appropriate level of detail, to keep stakeholders appropriately aware of project statuses.
• May be assisting Business Analysts with identification of business requirements, integration needs, baseline metrics, feasibility studies and cost benefit analyses.
• Providing and maintaining accurate project forecasts for budget, resources and schedules.
• Documenting lessons learned and facilitating their translation into ‘Best Practices’.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Business Analysis and Project Management
• Experience using project management methodology (minimum 4+ years)
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in information systems/technology, computer science, engineering, business administration, finance or other undergraduate program.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) project management professional (PMP) certification
• Solid understanding of Organizational Change Management an asset.
• Demonstrated effective time management skills by leading multiple initiatives concurrently.
• Demonstrated ability in carrying out complex work requirements while working autonomously to meet the needs of the project and timelines.
• Solid experience and understanding of technology initiatives.
• Consulting experience in a client-facing role – an asset.

Benefits

• Hybrid work environment