Sr Business Analyst (with Public Market exp.)

Sr Business Analyst (with Public Market exp.)

This is with a global IT services firm for a leading investment/wealth management services firm.
Client Location is downtown Toronto Ontario, close to TTC and GO service.
Hybrid - In Office 4 days per week.
Contract - 6 months, possible renewal

Project Description:
You will work as a Lead Business Analyst in Trading Technology, Public Market Technologies team, investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post post-tradevities. Successful candidate will be experienced in working closely with the business to gather and document detailed requirements and help iteratively provide solutions.
This position requires someone with high attention to detail, strong sense of creativity, ownership, integrity, and strong analytical & problem-solving skills. The candidate is expected to possess working knowledge in Capital Markets, coupled with the ability to translate business requirements into solutions while working with engineering.

Responsibilities:
Collect expectations and requirements of the customer
Write user stories and acceptance criteria utilizing Behavioral Driven Development
Manage best practice and ensuring these practices are used
Understands the effects of technology used within the development, and the impact on the business client
Produce quality deliverables and meet deadlines
Customer' expectations management
UI/UX designs reviewing
Specifications (user stories) creation and reviewing
Business requirements gathering through capturing of user stories, prototyping etc.
Analysis of as-is business processes, identifying gaps and areas for improvement
Design to-be business processes, perform impact & feasibility analysis of the requirements
Regular status reporting
Experience working within Capital Market AND/OR Real Estate domains

Mandatory Skills:
Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience.
7+ years' experience as a BA on IT projects
Public Market experience
Experience with WEB solution design ( REST API-based, microservices experience)
Good understanding of Agile framework (SCRUM)
Requirements elicitation techniques: workshopping, document analysis, interviews
Requirements documentation through User Stories and SRS
Calm, agile, positive, proactive but pragmatic mindset
Good communication skills + customer management skills + team playing skills
Good experience with data visualization tools and technical (UML)

Nice to Have
Strong Technical background
Scrum master or PM certification.