Business Systems Analyst

CI Financial•Toronto, ON

27d•$55,000 - $95,000•Onsite

About The Position

At CI, we see a great place to work as one that is a safe place for everyone to have a voice, where people are empowered to take ownership over meaningful work, where there is an opportunity to grow through stretching themselves, where they can work on innovative products and projects, and where employees are supported and engaged in doing so. This position requires a professional committed to providing outstanding business systems analysis supporting Corporate Applications, Internal/External system feeds to various vendors and data analytics systems. The successful candidate will be a dedicated team-oriented individual with an excellent understanding of investment management industry and the related technology.

Requirements

5 years experience as business/systems analyst or business consultant within the Investment Management or Brokerage industry.
College/University graduate in Business Administration, Computer Science or equivalent.
Extensive experience in business/systems analysis for portfolio management/back-office systems within the Investment Management industry
Working experience with Corporate Systems in Finance along with vendor management an asset
Familiarity with multi-platform environments such as Windows, UNIX, Amazon AWS, Linux/REDHAT.
Good knowledge of database design, data mining, and querying using SQL
Strong knowledge of investment and wealth management functions: portfolio management/administration, portfolio modeling, performance accounting, performance reporting/attribution, back-office, order and trade management
In-depth understanding of various investment products, market practices, compliance and regulatory requirements, industry trends
Ability to confidently and professionally deal with vendor and employees at a variety of levels
Strong customer service orientation, leadership and decision-making skills
Creative, adaptable, resilient, self-directed, innovative, results oriented
Excellent organizational, problem-solving and critical thinking skills
Superior time management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities/deadlines
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to work independently and as a team member
Good interpersonal and team skills

Nice To Haves

Familiar and knowledgeable in Snowflake Databases would be an asset

Responsibilities

Interface with Project Team(s), other BSAs and developers, as well as with other technical teams, to identify, document and manage the business requirements/specifications for various projects and support those processes, that could be cross functional and technically complex.
Responsible and accountable for the business requirements/specifications to be complete, correct, consistent, concise, achievable and to obtain sign off from the business stakeholders.
Establish/maintain partnerships with business users in order to determine optimal solutions, automation and alternatives for various business and systems needs to ensure clients make informed decisions.
Provide overall business/systems support for Production and User Acceptance Test environments. Ensure continued integrity of existing production systems.
Ad-hoc reporting for business users.
Investigative support for day-to-day system and business issues.
Provide expert guidance with hands-on help where required to solve complex and challenging business problems to the satisfaction of key stakeholders.
Set stakeholder expectations appropriately. Share complex concepts with non- technical audiences.
Collaborate with project team on issue management and help coordinate resolution.
Organize and participate in stakeholder meetings
Initiate and lead on support items and projects tied to vendors and management surrounding that Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to Support team members and extended business teams
Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings
Help to ensure project deadlines are met
Undertake project and support tasks as required
Help ensure project and support task adheres to JIRA framework and documentation is maintained appropriately.
Gather stakeholder feedback and document new requirements as user stories in JIRA
Help to ensure stakeholder views/expectations are managed
Facilitate meetings with the support and project teams to review/refine JIRA backlog
Help define the sprint schedule with support/project team
Report on weekly targets, anticipated and existing blockages, progress towards project milestones
Will function in an agile team environment and may be involved with planning and executing test cases and vendor system upgrades