Business Analyst

Your Opportunity

As a valued member of the Business Process Management (BPM) team reporting to the Manager, Business Analysis for Employment & Talent Management, you will engage with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to translate their business needs into system solutions that achieve business needs.

Your duties will include partnering with stakeholders, leading workshops, modeling processes, identifying pain-points and improvement opportunities, eliciting business requirements, and assisting with testing and organizational change management.

Your Key Responsibilities 

As a BA practitioner you will engage project teams to:

• Understand client needs and capture business decisions and requirements in a detailed manner.
• Analyze business processes to identify pain-points, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop a solid understanding of the business processes and systems that comprise the employment journey.
• Conduct workshops to elicit business requirements.
• Participate in refining system solutions and demonstrate system functions/features to business.
• Facilitate and coordinate user acceptance testing.
• Participate in testing activities such as test case creation, test execution, and issue resolution.
• Support cross-functional programs and projects as required.
• Follow BPM practices and guidelines.
• Work with colleagues to improve those practices and guidelines.
• Assist with day-to-day operational issues.
• Adhere to Stantec policies and practices.

As a BA practice proponent you will:

• Follow BPM practices and guidelines.
• Work with colleagues to improve those practices and guidelines.
• Assist with day-to-day operational issues.
• Adhere to Stantec policies and practices.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Required:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated and self-directed
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and multi-task priorities as needed
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to work in a decentralized business model across multiple countries and time zones

Preferred:

• Experience as a Business Analyst in a large organization
• Experience with documentation and work tracking tools such as Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office suite.
• Experience building test cases and performing testing with tools such as QTest
• Experience with waterfall and agile development practices

Education and additional Experience

• Post-secondary degree, ideally related to Business or Management Information Systems
• Minimum 3 years of related experience