Business Analyst, IT

American Iron & Metal (AIM) is a family-owned company and recognized global leader in the metal recycling industry with more than 125 sites and 4000 employees worldwide. We have continued to prosper for the last eight decades thanks to the dedication of our employees and the ongoing trust and support of our customers.

Become part of team AIM, a growing team with an entrepreneurial spirit who has over the years evolved into a successful and multifaceted company with business divisions that include metal recycling, decommissioning and demolition, auto-parts sales and recycling, manufacturing of solder assemblies, construction waste recycling, and production of customized industrial and mining products.

We take pride in doing good things for the environment to help create a greener, more sustainable future for all.

It’s simple; we do it right. We AIM for excellence.

Strategy & Planning

• Collaborate with project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.

• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.

• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.

• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.

• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.

• Participate in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.

• Participate in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.

Operational Management

• Analyse and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.

• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.

• Present business requirements to functional team to be translated into user stories following Agile methodology.

• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on user requirements.

• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to functional analyst and project Manager, where applicable.

• Develop and conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.

• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.

• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.

• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements – verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.

• College diploma or university degree in the field of business administration, computer science, finance, or information systems.
• 3+ years’ related work experience.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required.
• Clear understanding of product management and market placement.
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources.
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.
• Bilingualism, French and English spoken and written.

What we offer!

• Competitive salary + other perks
• Group insurance & RRSP program
• Company-wide events throughout the year (BBQ, Holiday party etc.) 
• Free gym on site
• Two cafeterias on site (subsidized meal program available)
• Dynamic & rewarding work environment- work on high-impact, meaningful projects while also having fun!