Lead analysis of medium-complexity, cross-functional projects from requirements through deployment. Define scope, validate business needs, ensure alignment with objectives, manage stakeholder buy-in, assess impacts and dependencies, and collaborate with product, project, architecture, integration, and agile teams to deliver integrated business solutions.
The Business Analyst is responsible for analyzing the client's context and business needs or processes within the framework of medium-complexity projects that may require integration across one or more business areas. They interact with stakeholders, users, and contributors and are responsible for ensuring the overall alignment of projects with business needs and organizational objectives. They identify, design, and recommend business solutions and analyze their impact on the organization. Within projects, they collaborate in defining business objectives, define the scope of solutions, and support the project manager in key decision-making. They are responsible for ensuring the alignment of solutions with business objectives and operational needs. They are also responsible for the end-to-end integration of business solutions, from the business requirements definition stage through to deployment. The consultant works closely with a product manager, business expert, project manager, project sponsor, solutions architect, integration specialist, and agile teams. They are involved in the entire solution implementation cycle and must ensure that all stakeholders understand the solution.
They are seeking an experienced business analyst capable of independently handling medium-complexity projects involving multiple business areas. The role covers the entire lifecycle, from requirements definition to deployment, with responsibility for end-to-end alignment and integration. The client emphasizes cross-functional collaboration: the candidate will work in tandem with project managers, product owners, architects, and agile teams, requiring strong communication skills and interpersonal abilities within an agile environment. The expected experience level is clearly defined: 5 to 8 years in the role, with active participation in agile programs, thus excluding both junior profiles and purely theoretical or management-oriented analysts. The mention of Security as an asset, although in a secondary note, suggests that a transformation or compliance program currently underway at Desjardins could be the focus of this assignment.
Main
Responsibilities:
- Analyze
situations to understand organizational problems and seize opportunities
- Identify,
analyze, document, and validate the organization's business needs and
requirements
- Support
stakeholders and ensure their buy-in to project requirements
- Support the
identification of business value
- Verify,
validate, and manage the traceability of business needs
- Align the
solution with business objectives
- Identify
internal and external prerequisites and dependencies
- Analyze the
impacts on stakeholders
- Communicate
and present the solution
- Evaluate
and validate the effectiveness of a solution in relation to needs and
requirements
- Ensure a
comprehensive view of the solution
Requirements
Skills:
- Customer-focused
- Fostering
innovation
- Engaging
people
- Collaborative
- Action-oriented
- Managing
uncertainty and ambiguity
- Mastering
interpersonal relationships
- Communicating
effectively
- Understanding
Agile values and principles
- Possessing
creative, analytical, and systemic thinking skills
- Ability to
simplify complex information and have a knack for synthesis
REQUIREMENTS
QUALIFICATION TABLE
- 5 to 8
years of experience in business analysis | AND | Full coverage, duration
verifiable on resume
- Active
participation in an Agile program | AND | Concrete projects in an Agile
environment, not just theoretical knowledge
- Bachelor's
degree | AND | Completed degree, all fields accepted
DESIRED
- Knowledge
of the banking and financial industry | AND | Experience in a financial
institution or client project in the sector
- Agile
cross-functional skills (simplification, systems thinking, ambiguity
management) | Illustrative list | Representative coverage, not item by item
ASSET
- CBAP or
PMI-PBA certification | OR | Either one is sufficient, absence does not
disqualify
- Experience
in Security projects | AND | Delivered Projects, Not Just Peripheral Exposure
WHAT WE
DON'T WANT
- Candidates
with less than 5 years of experience in business analysis or whose experience
is primarily in project management or coordination.
- Candidates
who have worked in Agile as observers or marginal participants only, without
actively contributing to business deliverables in Agile teams.
- Functional
or systems analysts whose focus is primarily on technical documentation rather
than business requirements analysis.
- Candidates
without experience in financial institutions or companies whose projects
involve the banking or financial sector.
- Candidates
whose resumes show numerous short-term projects with no visible progression in
the complexity of the work.
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