Senior Business Data Analyst (Asset/ Investment Management)

Picton Mahoney Asset Management•Toronto, ON

2d•CA$120,000 - CA$130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Picton Mahoney Asset Management (PICTON Investments), we are seeking a Senior Business Data Analyst to join our Digital Product Management team. This role is crucial for providing comprehensive business and product support for Data Management. The primary focus will be on collaborating with various departments, including Investment Management, Portfolio Construction, Trading, Compliance, Sales, Marketing, HR, and Operations, to support their data automation needs. We are an independent, privately run, 100% employee-owned firm with a mission to bring greater certainty to investors. Our culture is entrepreneurial, dynamic, and collaborative, offering significant responsibilities, a flexible environment, and challenging projects. We empower our employees with a high level of responsibility, trust, and flexibility, fostering a creative space to reshape the view of alternative investments. With competitive total rewards, performance-based bonuses, and a clear path for career growth, we provide the resources for both immediate development and long-term success.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree in STEM programs, including Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business or other related discipline.
In-depth knowledge of financial concepts and the capital market, wealth management and asset management domain knowledge.
Minimum 5+ years of relevant data analytical experience.
Experienced user of Data Warehouse and Cloud Environment such as Azure.
Proficiency working with business intelligence, analytics and reporting tools such as Tableau, Python, R, SQL Power BI.
Strong understanding of data management.
Strong analytical skills and statistical analysis with the ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate important information with attention to detail, accuracy and confidentiality.
Excellent oral and written communication skills to provide advice and guidance and present information clearly and concisely to all levels within the organization, including executives.
Ability to interact professionally with management and professionals at various levels.
Ability to work with minimal direction, prioritize multiple projects, coach and assist others and meet strict deadlines.
Ability to work effectively in ambiguous and changing environments and desire to work in a collaborative team environment.
Clear and efficient communicator in both technical and non-technical environments; deliver informative and well-organized presentations.

Responsibilities

Main point of contact for assigned business projects in the deployment of new data and reporting solutions.
Lead projects with a higher degree of complexity and act as the liaison between business and technology teams.
Lead the facilitation of defining and documenting business needs and processes end-to-end with the business unit.
Use activity diagrams, use cases scenarios, flowcharts, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, interviews, and workflow analysis to create and manage requirements.
Gather information from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, disseminate high-level information into details, and distinguish user requests from their true needs.
Identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements, and levels of systems access after consulting with business SMEs.
Use standard templates to develop requirement specifications (Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), epics, user stories, acceptance criteria). Update templates as needed and proactively make recommendations to improve templates and other documentation.
Act as a key supporting resource in data analysis, statistical analysis using complex information from various sources and present the data into simple and concise reports.
Work closely with management teams and business partners to ensure the roadmap is continuously maintained, looking at current and future states. Update the roadmap with new business requirements/needs as they arise.
Function as a liaison between technology teams, support teams, and business units.
Deliver work product throughout the Agile life-cycle.