business analyst.

We are seeking a highly analytical and financially savvy Business Analyst to drive end-to-end requirements management, process optimization, and strategic solution design. In this role, you will evaluate operational workflows, uncover process inefficiencies, and translate stakeholder needs into structured functional specifications, process maps, and data diagrams. Acting as a vital bridge between business units, external clients, and technical IT teams, you will also play a key role in financial forecasting, option analyses, and procurement preparation.

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite or Hybrid option available at Metro Hall, 55 John Street)

Duration: 6 months contract

Advantages
Comprehensive Portfolio Scope: Shape a diverse array of enterprise deliverables ranging from high-level roadmap sequencing to deeply technical data integration models.

Strategic Procurement Impact: Gain valuable experience driving corporate concept submissions and building acquisition-ready scopes for upcoming RFx cycles.

Workplace Flexibility: Benefit from a reliable, standard daytime schedule with the choice of full-time onsite work or a structured hybrid model out of a premier downtown facility (Metro Hall).

Cross-Functional Visibility: Work dynamically with financial executives, project steering committees, line-of-business clients, and core technical engineering squads.

Responsibilities
End-to-End Requirements Management: Lead requirements activities across the full project lifecycle (planning, analysis, design, and testing). Elicit, document, and maintain business and functional requirements with strict traceability.

Process & Data Modeling: Analyze current-state ecosystems to identify inefficiencies and gaps. Map out future-state workflows, process diagrams, data models, and detailed use cases.

Financial & Options Analysis: Perform cost-benefit analyses, financial modeling, trending, forecasting, and feasibility studies to support robust business cases and procurement initiatives (RFx preparation).

Database & Data Analysis: Leverage a strong technical understanding of data structures, sources, and relationships to query database systems and extract meaningful business insights for executive decision-making.

Testing & Quality Assurance Support: Define and prepare critical test artifacts, build detailed test scenarios and realistic test data, and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) along with verification tracking.

Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation: Plan, organize, and facilitate workshops and cross-functional meetings tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences, driving groups toward documented consensus and actionable decisions.

Scope Governance: Maintain comprehensive requirements governance artifacts, including decision matrices, issue tracking files, and formal change logs to control project scope as analysis evolves.

Qualifications
Core Experience: 5+ years of progressive business analysis experience operating within large enterprise landscapes or complex multi-stakeholder corporate structures.

Technical Analysis Methodologies: Demonstrated expertise in structured IT analysis methodologies, including business process flow definitions, data flow diagramming (DFDs), and conceptual data modeling.

Database Technologies: Hands-on experience working with, navigating, or writing data queries in Oracle, SQL Server, or SAP database systems.

Financial & Analytical Acumen: Strong capability to execute quantitative research, tracking metrics like operational trending, financial forecasts, and benefit realizations.

Software & Tooling: Advanced proficiency utilizing the full Microsoft Office desktop product suite (Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint).

Communication & Collaboration: Elite written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to manage client relationships and collaborate across all levels of organizational staff.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems Management, Computer Science, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience).

Asset: Prior experience working within the public sector or a municipal environment is highly desirable.

Summary
If you're interested in the Business Analyst role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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