Client Description:
We are recruiting for one of our clients, a large financial institution, a Junior Business Analyst.
Responsibilities:
Junior Business Analyst is responsible for requirement activities on small enhancements and projects. The role demonstrates basic knowledge and ability and, with guidance, conduct business analysis in common situations that present limited difficulties. The role leverages guidance of a more senior resource when executing all aspects of requirements delivery - planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support - for changes to Business Areas and Technology. Demonstrates basic knowledge and ability and, with guidance, to conduct business analysis in common situations that present limited difficulties.
Business Analysis Planning – 10%
- Determine review and sign off responsibilities of the identified stakeholder groups
- Contribute to planning of the business analysis activities and tasks
- Contribute to accurate estimates for completion of requirements
- Assist in managing the risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements
- Assist in the requirements prioritization, helping drive out business priorities
Requirements Analysis and Documentation – 60%
- Assist in the collaborative sessions with small to medium number of business stakeholders to discover, analyze and review requirements
- Analyze and document scope of the business solution using enterprise-standard requirements methodology
- Conduct current-state analysis to analyze the changes required to the business and technology
- Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements, using enterprise requirements methodology
- Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders
- Maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following enterprise standards
Requirements Management and Support – 15%
- Prepare requirements for review and assist in requirements walkthrough and sign off sessions
- Conduct coverage analysis to ensure relationship between scope, detailed requirements, testing through to implementation
- Follow standard change management processes based on the RBC delivery methodologies
- Assist in the resolution of minor conflicts and issues and escalate as required
- Support QA in development of the Functional System test cases and validate that test cases have full coverage of the critical requirements
- Support Design and Development activities by providing requirements clarifications
- Support UAT and PIV activities such as planning, defect triage, and root-cause analysis for requirements-related issues
Candidate Profile:
Years of Experience - 0-2 years
Details regarding the types of experience required:
- May have completed co-op work term
Education / certification requirements
- Relevant college or university
- Post-graduate degree in Business Analysis (preferred) Details on skills and knowledge
- Basic knowledge of/ experience delivering requirements in various project delivery methodologies such as Iterative, Waterfall and/or Agile
- Basic knowledge or experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
- Basic knowledge of/ experience with requirements elicitation techniques such as Document analysis, Interviews, Facilitated workshops, Observation, Prototyping, Focus groups, Surveys
- Basic knowledge of/experience in requirements analysis and documentation:
- Scope Modelling
- Business Process Modelling
- Use Cases and Scenarios
- Data Requirements
- Business Rules Analysis and Decision Modelling
- User Interface Design
- Non Functional requirements
- User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping
- Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
- Basic knowledge of/experience in requirements management and communication – requirements walkthroughs; scope and change management; traceability; configuration management, Backlog Management
Additional Information:
This is a position with a 3-month consulting contract of 7 months.
