Bilingual Business Analyst – Implementations​/ Transformations, Asset Management

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Downtown, Toronto

Duration: 6 Months

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Bilingual Business Analyst - Implementations/ Transformations, Asset Management to maintain confidentiality and follow applicable enterprise standards, policies, and governance expectations. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

• Provide senior-level business analysis services for strategic transformation initiatives within Asset Management.
• Support Private Assets platform, operating model, process, data, reporting, and workflow initiatives.
• Support Transfer Agency modernization activities, including shareholder servicing, transactions, fund distributions, reporting, and operational process transformation.
• Develop and refine delivery-ready epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and requirements documentation.
• Contribute to Agile delivery execution by supporting backlog refinement, sprint planning, story walkthroughs, and delivery readiness activities.
• Work with internal teams and vendors to clarify requirements, validate proposed solutions, resolve analysis gaps, and support implementation planning.
• Operate as a hands‑on contractor resource supporting active project delivery and analysis execution.
• Work independently while coordinating closely with Product Owners, delivery leads, business SMEs, technology teams, and vendors.
• Produce clear, concise, and complete documentation that can be reviewed, approved, and used by delivery teams.
• Participate in project ceremonies, workshops, stakeholder reviews, vendor sessions, and implementation planning activities as required.

• Lead requirements elicitation and analysis sessions with business, operations, product, technology, and vendor stakeholders.
• Document current-state and future-state processes, business rules, data requirements, user journeys, functional requirements, and non‑functional requirements.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, structured, and delivery‑ready documentation.
• Maintain requirements traceability from business objectives through implemented solution capabilities.

• Create, refine, and maintain epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria at scale.
• Ensure backlog items are aligned to business value and meet Definition of Ready / Definition of Done expectations.
• Partner with Product Owners and delivery teams to support prioritization, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and story walkthroughs.
• Clarify requirements during development and testing to reduce ambiguity and support delivery momentum.

• Support analysis activities related to Transfer Agency modernization, including account servicing, transactions, settlements, distributions, interfaces, reporting, and operational controls.
• Assist with vendor solution validation, requirements walkthroughs, gap analysis, and implementation support.
• Identify operational impacts, dependencies, risks, and process changes arising from transformation activities.

• Support initiatives involving Private Equity, Private Credit, and other private asset capabilities.
• Analyze business processes, data requirements, reporting needs, operational controls, and platform-related impacts.
• Partner with stakeholders to define capabilities required to support private market products, workflows, and future‑state operating models.

• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders with varying priorities and delivery expectations.
• Support vendor interactions by preparing requirements, documenting decisions, validating design assumptions, and tracking follow‑ups.
• Identify and elevate risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions requiring resolution.
• Contribute to project status reporting, delivery governance, implementation readiness, and transition planning.

• Requirements documentation, including business, functional, and non‑functional requirements.
• Epics, features, user stories,…