Job Description: Business Analyst – Financial Domain

• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements for financial and banking applications.
  
  
• Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, QA teams, and project managers.
  
  
• Prepare BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
  
  
• Analyze financial workflows, business processes, and system integrations.
  
  
• Support projects related to banking operations, payments, lending, credit cards, loans, or financial reporting.
  
  
• Conduct gap analysis, impact analysis, and root-cause analysis.
  
  
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, and backlog refinement.
  
  
• Develop process flow diagrams, workflow models, and functional specifications.
  
  
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), validate test scenarios, and support defect resolution.
  
  
• Ensure requirements align with business objectives, internal policies, and applicable financial regulations.
  
  
• Support data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting using Excel and SQL where required.
  
  

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in the financial services or banking domain.
  
  
• Strong understanding of financial processes and banking operations.
  
  
• Experience in requirements elicitation, documentation, and stakeholder management.
  
  
• Proficiency in BRD, FRD, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
  
  
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
  
  
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Excel, and Visio.
  
  
• Basic SQL skills for data validation and analysis.
  
  
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  
  

• Experience with Canadian banks, credit unions, fintech companies, or financial institutions.
  
  
• Exposure to payment processing, wire transfers, ACH/EFT, SWIFT, lending, mortgages, or credit risk.
  
  
• Knowledge of KYC, AML, fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance.
  
  
• Experience with financial data reconciliation, reporting, and system integrations.
  
  
• Familiarity with Power BI or Tableau is an advantage.
  
  
• CBAP, CCBA, or PMI-PBA certification is a plus.
  
  

• Minimum 4 years of relevant Business Analyst experience.
  
  
• Financial services or banking domain experience is required.
  
  
• Candidates must be located in Canada and authorized to work in Canada, subject to client requirements.
  
  
• Strong stakeholder communication and documentation skills.