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Job : 170086

Position: Business Analyst

Department: Treasury Board Secretariat

Type: Permanent Position

95 Rochford Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island C1A 3T5

Expires on: September 10, 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Department of Finance is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility. Our goal is to build a public sector workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve and to promote welcoming, diverse, inclusive, respectful workplaces that are accessible to all. We welcome all interested individuals including Indigenous People, persons with disabilities, Black, racialized, ethnic and culturally diverse groups, as well as people regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identities, and gender expressions.

Those looking for more information are invited to visit our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy.

Our Vision:
Forward-looking people, service, and technology.

Our Mission:
Our Team proudly delivers quality IT expertise and advice with our partners to make citizen and business-centric service possible.

The purpose of this position is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of all Government departments. This includes interviewing department representatives and gathering, and compiling business needs to convey to the project manager and application development teams throughout the system life cycle. The Business Analyst ensures their work in the section adds value by meeting the goals set by the ITSS Strategic Plan and aligns to the Digital Strategy and IMIT Foundations of the Government of PEI.

Duties will include but are not limited to:

• Collaborating with project managers and business sponsors to determine project scope and vision;
• Conducting interviews and systems analysis to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaire, surveys, site visits, workflow analysis, use cases, scenarios, and other methods;
• Identifying and establishing scope and parameters of requirements analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions; analyzing and verifying requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards;
• Developing and utilizing standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirement specifications;
• Translating conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to report developers/project teams;
• Creating process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to the project team;
• Developing and conducting reviews to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted; communicating changes, enhancements, and modifications – verbally or through written documentation to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood;
• Coordinating with Project Managers and other technical experts to support Government Directors and Managers to identify and define measures, indicators, and benchmarks for their information system, application and technology solutions;
• Other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation from university with a degree in Business Administration or a related field supplemented with experience and/or major course work in business analysis;
• Demonstrated equivalencies may be considered;
• Extensive experience in the IT field in a business analyst’s role;
• Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification and methodology development; overseeing design, development, and implementation of applications and/or information systems;
• Experience prioritizing and managing multiple task simultaneously, working in a team environment, and managing projects;
• Must have strong customer service orientation;
• Ability to create systematic and consistent…