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Senior Business Analyst

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City Toronto

Type Direct Hire

Salary $100,000

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About the Company
Our client is a TSX listed company in the financial services industry with global operations. They are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join their Finance Solutions Team!

Why Work Here

• Growing company
• Excellent culture with a supportive boss and cohesive team
• Good work life balance
• Excellent compensation plan

About the Opportunity

• Look for opportunities to eliminate, simplify and automate processes. Based on an understanding of the business strategy and stakeholder needs, recommends approaches or changes to streamline and integrate processes to improve overall efficiency.
• Key contributor within a team of mixed discipline resources to drive tangible change across key priority processes to deliver process improvements for productivity savings and enhanced customer/employee experience.
• Facilitate automation of analytical and operational tasks and processes at scale, incorporating automation tools such as Alteryx, Power BI, Power Automate, or development of requirements for RPAs and IT led projects.
• Provide data management processes such as accessing raw data feeds, building SQL queries, and designing reports that present status-at-a-glance visualization of business performance.
• Develops and documents processes, standard operating procedures, and/ or end-user materials.
• Design training material and organize stakeholder training and Q&A sessions on re-engineered processes, inclusive of tools/templates to appropriate process owners.
• Create user friendly data visualizations to report complex business processes via related KPIs, benchmarking, statistical analysis, exception reporting, etc.
• Support process owners by ensuring process governance is clear, information templates are available, and frequently asked questions are addressed.
• Lead the roll out of changes to governance through implementing change management strategies.
• Collect stakeholder feedback on operating model rollout and identify areas that require further clarification/improvements.
• Take ownership of financial data and analytics processes with a fair understanding of business processes to equip the team with proper data for advanced analytics and exploratory data analysis.

About You

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Data Analysis or a related field of study
• Minimum two years of experience in business process engineering, finance process modernization, or at a top-tier management consulting firm, or as a data analyst within finance
• Experience in generating process documentation and reports
• Ability to create data visualizations to report KPIs and metrics, pull data from various data sources, direct querying, exploratory data analysis, financial modelling, and performing root cause analysis
• Track record of data-driven analysis, and linking data and analytics to business strategy, financial performance, and process improvement
• Strong analytical background, including the ability to break down and work through complex problems in a structured manner, using both quantitative and qualitative methods
• Strong knowledge of and experience with databases (SQL, SnowSQL, etc.)
• Experience with automation technologies and data visualization tools such as PowerBI, Power Automate, Smartsheet workflow, Alteryx, or other BI tools
• Knowledge of data gathering, cleaning and transforming techniques preferred
• MS Office proficiency: Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Visio
• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with SAP S4/HANA a plus

Salary Range
$90,000 - $100,000/year

How to Apply
Click the “Apply Now” button and follow the instructions to submit your resume. Please know that we only accept documents in MS Word or Rich Text formats.  When referencing this job, quote #382688.

You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.