Senior Business Analyst

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values.

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Role
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Senior Business Analyst

Job Summary
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This Senior Business Analyst position requires a focus on client success, client-facing skills and a strong understanding of the project lifecycle and software development lifecycle. You must bring leadership, analytical thinking, and be an inherent curiosity to the role. The successful candidate would be detail oriented with the ability and eagerness to learn and understand business, customer and technology needs.

You are a creative thinker with excellent verbal and written communication skills and embrace detail but summarize and express it clearly and accurately. This opportunity is based fully onsite at our Mississauga, ON office location.

Compensation
: $111,000 - $132,000

• Health Insurance (includes Virtual Health, and HCSA)
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long-term Disability
• Short-term Disability
• RRSP Match
• Paid Vacation
• Floating Days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Engagement Events
• Awards and Recognition
• Tuition reimbursement
• Service Awards
• Employee Perks & Discounts

• Lead projects from a Solution Delivery perspective, from requirements gathering, design to delivery in an Agile, Scrum-based, environment and support project and program managers to build project plans and timelines
• Support the Project Manager in both Agile and Waterfall projects
• Build and maintain accurate User Stories / Business Requirements with User Acceptance criteria that will be used by developers, testers and shared with clients to ensure that business value is effectively captured and realized
• Liaise between the client and project team in evaluating business value of User stories / Business Requirements and prioritizing them for execution by the team.
• Position solutions and options to business stakeholders
• Support and collaborate with the development team during the implementation of the requirements in order to clarify and refine User Stories.
• Collaborate upstream with strategy team and downstream with Technology Architect
• Create supporting technical documentation (matrices, sample calculations, field definitions, flow diagrams) where UI/UX designs and API definitions do not capture nuanced product requirements
• Play a senior consulting role for specific areas of domain expertise including technology and solution choices to implement the solution.
• Act as the Functional lead on complex projects from conception to implementation including leading interactions with internal architects, and/or 3rd. party Systems Integrators.
• Perform day-to-day troubleshooting and support of in house built and procured production systems
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level business analysts
• Assist in onboarding new business analyst by helping them understand system functionalities and business processes

• 7+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, on large and complex technology projects with a focus on Sales and Customer service in the Manufacturing industry
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with large and medium size projects that involve a combination of internal teams and external partners
• Business process flows and modelling
• Strong analytical skills with developing new reporting analytics
• Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to different levels of the organization (written and verbal – i.e. PowerPoint)
• Experienced with SDLC methodology run projects from Requirement Gathering, Design, Testing, Documentation Training through Implementation and Post Live Support
• Previous experience in implementing business application of CRM, Loyalty Program, Ecommerce systems and integrations
• Client-facing / Customer-facing experience to deliver solution overviews, webinars and…