Sr. Business Analyst, Strategic Execution

Royal Bank of Canada • Toronto, ON

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Strategic Execution Team has a mandate to develop and implement a proactive, standardized, and scalable program and project management discipline that drives consistency in the delivery of RBC enterprise strategic initiatives. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will support the Strategic Execution team as a trusted strategic partner to senior business stakeholders by translating complex initiative challenges and requirements into clear solutions and specifications across multiple divisions. This role requires a seasoned professional who can manage cross-functional teams, navigate complex business landscapes, and ensure alignment between business objectives and technical delivery.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of business analysis experience in financial institutions and fast-paced environments
• Ability to manage ambiguity and navigate complex stakeholder environments effectively
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Expert time management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
• Proven ability to work independently and take ownership of complex initiatives
• Ability to provide high level key deliverable plan and detail breakdown to user stories and major tasks; providing guidance and leadership through to the team during all project phases; ability to handle pressure with multiple priorities
• Conduct comprehensive requirements analysis and elicitation across complex, multi-team initiatives with high levels of complexity and uncertainty.
• Lead the translation of sophisticated business needs into actionable process design and system requirements.
• Demonstrated self-motivation, initiative-taking, and results-driven mindset with minimal oversight required
• Strong team collaboration skills with openness to innovative problem-solving approaches

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Iterative, Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, and Kanban delivery methodologies
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Business, Finance, Science, Engineering or related fields

Responsibilities

• Manage requirements planning, elicitation, documentation, through team meetings, workshops, and interviews.
• Effectively validate requirements and associated process flows and roadmaps through detailed documentation and presentations to executives and stakeholders, to ensure traceability and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create or modify business process maps and roadmaps following RBC standards.
• Identify opportunities, gaps, dependencies and make recommendations for improvement.
• Gather, consolidate, and analyze relevant data from various sources to provide meaningful insights that support business decisions and project direction.
• Execute end-to-end project delivery, including scoping, stakeholder alignment, success criteria definition, and project execution monitoring.
• Document and communicate milestones, risks, and business impact across technical and business stakeholder groups.
• Perform thorough risk analysis on requirements and solutions, identifying dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies.
• Raise, track and escalate risks and issues where appropriate.
• Identify and prioritize stakeholder requirements, ensuring effective onboarding and communication of project direction.
• Build trust through reliability and transparency, facilitating workshops and managing conflict resolution.
• Build influence and drive alignment on complex requirements and solutions.
• Collaborate with project managers, developers, and other business analysts to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Utilize and promote the adoption of key enterprise tools and technology such as Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Jira, Confluence, and Mural.

Benefits

• It provides the opportunity to be a part of a high performing experienced team with progressive thinking to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper.
• Opportunities to do challenging work utilizing latest technologies
• Opportunities to see measurable results in relatively short term
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to building close relationships with counterparts across the bank

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree