Senior Business Analyst

First Derivative is driven by people, data, and technology, unlocking the value of insight, hindsight, and foresight to drive organizations forward. Counting many of the world's leading investment banks as clients, we help our clients navigate the data-driven, digital revolution that is transforming the financial services sector. Our global teams span across 15 offices serving clients across EMEA, North America and APAC.

As an EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) company, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services, we deliver advanced financial services solutions by empowering operational insights, driving innovation, and enabling more effective risk management in an increasingly data-centric world. Together with EPAM, we combine deep industry expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients stay ahead in a rapidly evolving financial landscape, offering comprehensive solutions that drive business transformation and sustainable growth.

First Derivative, an EPAM Company, is expanding its Toronto Practice and is seeking talented, ambitious, and commercially aware Senior Business Analysts to join our growing team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile transformation and regulatory change programmes with leading investment banks, capital markets firms, and financial market infrastructure providers. You will play a key role in helping clients to break down complex business problems & flows, define requirements across data, process and technology, to be implemented on or across one of more platform such as trading, post trade or data analytic platforms.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, and subject matter experts to analyse requirements, deliver solutions, and support the successful implementation.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill an existing vacancy for a new position.

Responsibilities

• Agile & Story Management: Facilitate Agile product teams in story and feature management, conduct story slicing to optimize delivery, and lead technical grooming sessions
• Gather, analyse, and document business and regulatory requirements through workshops, interviews, and stakeholder engagement
• Create business requirement documents, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, QA teams, and operations teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Define and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, potentially including test case creation, defect management, and results reporting
• Translate complex business strategy/vision or regulatory obligations into clear functional and technical requirements

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 6+ years of business analysis and requirements management experience within Capital Markets or Financial Services
• Experience in agile tools e.g Jira and Confluence
• Understanding of trade and transaction lifecycles across different financial products/instruments
• Strong requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation skills
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of an organisation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Experience supporting UAT and business testing activities
• Ability to interpret complex data and business processes
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously

Nice to have

• Experience in using AI tools during the SDLC process
• Experience in defining requirements to build AI tools/agents
• Knowledge of global regulatory reporting regimes, such as EMIR, MiFID II / MiFIR, SFTR, Dodd-Frank, CFTC, etc
• Experience using SQL for data analysis and investigation
• Exposure to Linux environment

We offer

• Extended Healthcare with Prescription Drugs, Dental and Vision, and Healthcare Spending Account (Company Paid)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Paid)
• Employee Assistance Program (Company Paid)
• Telehealth (Company Paid)
• Short-term Disability (Company Paid)
• Long-Term Disability
• Paid Time Off (including vacation and sick days)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with Company match
• Maternity/Parental/Adoption Leave Top-up
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

This posting includes a base salary range EPAM Canada would reasonably expect to pay the selected candidate. Individual compensation offers within the range are based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, experience, credentials, education, training, the demand for the role, skillset, and overall business and local labour market considerations. Most candidates are hired at a salary within the range disclosed. Salary range: CA$130,000 - CA$140,000. In addition, the details highlighted in this job posting above are a general description of all other expected benefits and compensation for the position.

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EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our clients, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

Engineer the Future with a Career at EPAM

Claire Corrigan