Business System Analyst- EN

Overview

A technical professional who bridges business needs and IT solutions. They analyze organizational systems, create user stories, identify inefficiencies, and recommend technology solutions to improve business processes. This role is ideal for technical problem‑solvers who excel at implementing innovative solutions while maintaining compliance and quality. Proficiency in banking systems, data flows, and associated risks is a strong asset. Your core responsibilities revolve around business rule validation and alignment, test strategy and execution, and serving as a liaison between business units, software engineers, and quality analysts.

What will you do?

• Translate and validate complex business rules with stakeholders, ensuring mutual agreement on definitions, logic, and expected outcomes.
• Curate feature‑specific test data sets that align with distinct business logic, workflows, and use cases to enable comprehensive functional and regression testing across all system modules.
• Design and generate synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data to validate system functionality, reports, and business rules, ensuring test data covers edge cases, compliance scenarios, and performance requirements.
• Gain understanding of upstream applications and the data provided, interfacing with other application teams and architects as needed to document data flows.
• Implement data masking techniques to protect sensitive information in non‑production environments.
• Design and evaluate system solutions that meet business objectives, including assessing existing systems and recommending improvements or replacements, while creating system diagrams and technical specifications to guide implementation.
• Identify inefficiencies in existing systems (e.g., legacy core banking platforms) and recommend improvements.
• Conduct value‑stream analysis to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for automation or data‑driven improvements.
• Communicate and interact frequently with partners and employees located across Canada and worldwide.

What do you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science or a related field with 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst, preferably in financial services.
• API & integration knowledge: familiarity with REST/SOAP APIs to facilitate data exchange between systems.
• SQL: advanced proficiency to extract, transform, and analyze data from relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server). Experience with DB2, legacy systems and big data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Hadoop) is a big asset.
• Test data management: skills in generating synthetic data, data masking, or subset extraction to support testing.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Lucidchart and Visio).
• Collaboration platforms such as Jira, Confluence and Git version control.

Job Skills

Agile methodology, business data analysis, business process modeling, commercial acumen, communication, critical thinking, decision making, group problem solving, interpersonal relationship management, requirements analysis.

Additional Job Details

• Address: 1 PLACE VILLE MARIE:MONTRÉAL
• City: Montréal
• Country: Canada
• Work hours/week: 37.5
• Employment type: Full time
• Platform: Technology and Operations
• Job type: Regular
• Pay type: Salaried