Senior Business Systems Specialist

IVARI•Toronto, ON

1d•CA$98,000 - CA$135,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a new position. ivari is seeking a high-performing Senior Business Systems Specialist to provide coordination support in delivering new product launches and ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of financial, actuarial and other interface data flows across the organization. This position requires a high level of independence, strong business and systems analysis expertise, documentation and presentation skills, proven ability to collaborate and work across Product, Pricing, Finance, Actuarial, other business units, BI, IT, and external vendor DXC in a complex, regulated environment, to support feasibility studies, product specifications, resolve high-impact issues and deliver results.

Requirements

Post secondary education.
Business and systems experience within an insurance or financial services organization
Strong understanding of insurance products and pricing concepts
Demonstrated experience working with system-generated financial or policy data
Proven ability to analyze complex problems and drive solutions independently
Strong stakeholder management skills across business and technology teams
Strong collaborative skills with IT, business teams and vendors.
Experience with Lifetrax or similar policy administration systems such as Ingenium.
Hands-on experience with analytics or reporting platforms (e.g., SQL, Power BI, Fabric, Azure)
Familiarity with audit, control, or regulatory reporting processes
Familiarity with the Agile Software development cycle
Experience supporting system transformations, migrations, or major releases
Advanced business and systems analysis capability
Strong end-to-end systems and data mindset
Confident, clear, and professional stakeholder communication
High awareness of risk, controls, and downstream impacts
Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and decision-making judgment
Commitment to documentation and knowledge sharing

Responsibilities

Provide senior-level business systems analysis for policy administration, interface feeds, accounting-related systems to support the ivari new Products launch
Analyze and trace end-to-end data flows from source systems through downstream reporting and analytics
Partner with Finance and Actuarial teams to support accounting data interpretation, reconciliations, and issue resolution
Translate complex business, accounting, and regulatory requirements into clear system, data, and process impacts
Participate in system enhancements, issue resolution, testing, and deployment validation
Proactively assess risk, dependencies, and downstream impacts of system and data changes before they reach production
Support Finance-critical data flows (such as the end-to-end upload of GL Entries)
Support Compliance reporting and controls (such as the Advisor @ Glance report or Compliance Risk Matrix reports)
Design and support solutions leveraging cloud platforms and services (e.g., Azure, Assure Cloud, Saas Environments)