About the role

Business Analyst delivering strategic projects for Capital Markets at Desjardins. Collaborating with teams to analyze, design, and implement business solutions for financial products.

Responsibilities

Analyze the sector’s business processes and needs to ensure alignment with organizational objectives
Support the analysis of the feasibility, design and execution phases of projects by building needs registers, drafting RFIs and RFPs, defining roles and responsibilities, and identifying risks and key players
Document and produce clear, concise business deliverables to contributors (front office, middle office, back office, risk, finance, compliance, etc.)
Create a business requirements registry, a product breakdown structure (PBS) and use cases
Develop views of target operational models, and identify affected processes
Identify and quantify the expected benefits of each business objective
Set up a traceability matrix
Participate in prioritizing requirements, and implement an agile delivery strategy
Work with internal partners to assess requests, their end-to-end impact, dependencies and alignments as well as risks arising from the new solution or activity
Conduct a comparative analysis of the various solutions following calls for tenders, and make a recommendation based on specific criteria and an evaluation grid
Ensure alignment and integration with the technological ecosystem and architecture
Develop a strategy for verifying and maintaining unit tests
Identify and document opportunities to improve work methods and processes

Bachelor's degree in a related field
A minimum of eight years of relevant experience in business analysis within the context of delivering business solutions for the capital markets sector
Knowledge of French is required
Advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
Knowledge of specialized capital market solutions
Proficiency in IT relations and agile methodology
Proven proactive approach: Consistently preparing a game plan and a structured agenda for every meeting
Experience leading focused business discussions that drive concrete decisions
Expertise managing business solutions end to end, including sales and trading platforms, position and inventory management, valuation, collateral management, settlement, accounting and risk
Expertise in communicating effectively with executive parties, ensuring transparency around issues, decisions and progress

Competitive salary and annual bonus
4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
Group insurance including telemedicine
Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment