Requirements Manager

BMO•Toronto, ON

4d•CA$94,600 - CA$176,000•Onsite

About The Position

The BA Manager is responsible for leading business analysis delivery across the FIRST regulatory portfolio, ensuring high-quality requirements, aligned execution, and data-driven decision support. This role combines deep BA expertise with people leadership, coaching, and portfolio-level oversight, enabling consistent delivery and adoption of best practices across multiple initiatives.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Business Analysis, with demonstrated leadership responsibility.
Proven people management experience (direct or matrix), including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
Strong understanding of Agile and SDLC methodologies, including backlog management and requirements lifecycle.
Deep expertise in requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation.
Experience working in regulatory, risk, or transformation programs (preferred for FIRST portfolio context).
Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills, with ability to derive actionable insights.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.
Experience driving best practice adoption and capability uplift across teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience delivering regulatory programs in banking (e.g., AML, KYC, Tax/FATCA, CRS, Financial Crime).
Strong understanding of regulatory compliance, audit, and reporting requirements, including control design and traceability.
Experience working across complex, multi-stream regulatory portfolios with cross-functional dependencies and strict timelines.
Developing E2E Multiyear Roadmaps with different LOBs and managing the intake pipeline.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Business Analysts, providing guidance on analysis approaches, deliverables, and stakeholder engagement.
Provide day-to-day oversight of BA work, including structuring work packages, assigning responsibilities, and ensuring timely delivery.
Review and validate requirements documentation (e.g., business requirements, user stories, data requirements) to ensure quality, completeness, and alignment to business needs.
Support BA development through feedback, capability building, and best practice sharing, fostering a high-performing BA community.
Manage direct reports (where applicable), including performance management, career development, and resource planning.
Establish and enforce requirements management standards, ensuring alignment with BMO BA CoE / CIOE practices.
Ensure requirements are: Clearly articulated, traceable, testable, and aligned to business outcomes; Reviewed, approved, and signed off by relevant stakeholders.
Act as escalation point for requirements-related issues, resolving blockers and ensuring progress.
Drive consistency in documentation, modeling, and validation practices across initiatives.
Provide leadership across the end-to-end requirements lifecycle (intake, elicitation, analysis, refinement, delivery, validation).
Ensure BAs effectively support delivery through: User story development and backlog refinement; Clear acceptance criteria and Definition of Ready/Done; Stakeholder walkthroughs and validation sessions.
Work closely with Product Owners, PMs, and Technology teams to ensure alignment between requirements and delivery execution.
Maintain an end-to-end view across the FIRST portfolio, ensuring alignment across multiple initiatives and workstreams.
Drive cross-program consistency in requirements, analysis approach, and execution.
Identify interdependencies, risks, and opportunities across projects and escalate as needed.
Partner with portfolio leadership to ensure requirements support regulatory compliance, auditability, and data governance.
Lead and guide BAs in performing data analysis, trend identification, and insight generation to support decision-making.
Ensure that analytics and reporting requirements are well-defined and aligned to business KPIs.
Support strategic initiatives by: Contributing to roadmaps, sequencing, and prioritization; Providing impact analysis and business case inputs.
Partner with the BA CoE / CIOE to adopt and embed enterprise standards, tools, and methodologies.
Drive continuous improvement in requirements practices, tools, and delivery efficiency.
Enable and promote AI-assisted requirements practices (e.g., automation of documentation, analysis acceleration, quality checks).
Promote knowledge sharing, communities of practice, and reuse across the portfolio.
Build strong relationships with business, technology, and regulatory stakeholders.
Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on requirements and analysis practices.
Facilitate workshops and discussions to align stakeholders on problem definition, requirements, and solutions.
Support communication strategies to ensure effective stakeholder alignment and adoption.