Journey Analyst (Contract)

Richardson Wealth Ltd • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$60,500 - CA$70,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

Richardson Wealth Management is on a transformation journey and wants to develop and implement an industry-changing digital strategy that will enable the firm to deliver an unmatched, seamless digital experience for clients and advisors and find new ways to serve clients, integrate digital touchpoints and channels to improve operational efficiencies and attract the next generation of client, advisor and employee with flexible options for engagement. As Journey Analyst, you will support the Journey owners with market and user research, journey optimization (e.g. experience redesign), journey orchestration and agile delivery and execution.

Requirements

• 2 years' experience as journey analyst or business analyst in a business context
• Understanding of the Wealth Management industry and regulatory environment
• A passion for client and advisor experience, with concrete achievements
• An excellent capacity to understand and analyze client and advisor needs, with an overall view of related processes
• Strong coordination skills across multiple stakeholders and departments
• Able to work in complex environments and in the context of transformation, with multiple stakeholders
• Degree in Business or Marketing

Responsibilities

• Partners with the journey owners and key stakeholders to articulate journey vision; documents problem / opportunity and broader context; defines the desired future states using outcomes as measures of success and with a strong focus on experience and value delivery
• Collaborates with journey owners and other stakeholders to identify business needs; captures / presents business needs as journey maps and visualized requirements
• Identifies stakeholders and ensures they are actively providing necessary inputs to teams
• Acts as the team’s central point for business / experience knowledge and ensures UX Designers, Process Engineers, Product Owners and other team members have necessary information and knowledge to complete their activities
• Engages the right set of staff within the team based on desired goals to facilitate collaborative working sessions
• Self-organizes around risks / issues / blockers; raises them as soon as they are identified or appear
• Practices continuous improvement and is on the constant lookout for opportunities; provides and adapts to continuous feedback positively
• Works in collaboration with the journey owner and the product owner to able to translate business concepts into easy-to-understand technical language
• Supports the journey owner in defining and documenting the optimized journeys
• Works in collaboration with the journey owner to organize and facilitate program increment planning (PI planning)
• Helps the Journey Owner define and own the value definition of the Epis and acceptation criteria of the stories
• Collaborates with the IT delivery team to enable them to provide a delivery estimate for user stories to gain a team commitment
• Works ahead of the delivery team to define optimized journeys for next iterations of epics and features
• Helps in acceptance criteria creation in a format that supports Acceptance Test Driven Development
• Provides discipline, rigor, and business context to the requirements definition and validation process
• Is an effective facilitator for delivery team to deliver incremental units of business value
• Can decompose and describe business needs as epics and features while enabling incremental delivery
• Can visualize business needs / requirements as epics, features and stories
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to complete required artifacts

Benefits

• The actual salary offered will take into consideration a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the individual’s skill, experience, education and training, and the consideration of internal equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level