Senior Business Analyst

Royal Bank of Canada • Toronto, ON

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for business analysis activities on medium-to-large projects. The role demonstrates advanced knowledge and ability and can apply competence in new or complex situations and guides other professionals. The role is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support - for changes to Business Areas and Technology.

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of progressive Business Analyst experience with increasing responsibilities in requirements management on large and complex projects
• Proven experience with various project delivery methodologies such as Agile and or Waterfall.
• Experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
• Requirements elicitation techniques such as document analysis, Interviews, facilitated workshops, Observation, Prototyping, Focus groups, Survey
• Requirements management and communication - requirements walkthroughs; scope and change management; traceability; configuration management, Backlog Management
• Relevant college, university, or post-graduate degree in Business Analysis
• Strong fundamentals: AI, agent/tools

Nice To Haves

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute -Professional in Business Analysis Certification (PMI - PBA) (Preferred)
• Certified Scrum Master
• AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Claude Code)

Responsibilities

• Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates
• Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
• Define the business analysis approach including tasks and deliverables based on the project and delivery methodology
• Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to drive out business priorities
• Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review
• Apply advanced elicitation techniques to work with different types of stakeholder groups
• Analyze and document scope of the business solution using enterprise-standard requirements methodology
• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology
• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology
• Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders
• Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards
• Utilize SQL to query and analyze business data to support requirements validation and business insights

Benefits

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to build close relationships with clients

What This Job Offers

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