Sr. Business Analyst - Counterparty Credit Risk

Sr. Business Analyst – Counter party Credit Risk

Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Employment Type:

Full Time
Position : J

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto and/or client office at a minimum 4 days per week – subject to change at any time. The Analyst bridges business and technology teams, ensuring clear requirements, high quality delivery, and alignment with business objectives.

• Engage with stakeholders to elicit, validate, and document business requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable functional specifications (BRD/FRD).
• Define scope and ensure alignment between business objectives and delivery.
• Develop a deep understanding of CCR concepts, workflows, and systems.
• Evaluate requirements critically to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in backlog prioritization, refinement, and sprint planning.
• Ensure continuous BA involvement across the full sprint lifecycle (refinement, development, testing, retrospectives).
• Design comprehensive test strategies covering functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Create and manage test cases, ensuring high coverage and minimal defect leakage.
• Support end‑to‑end test execution and validation.
• Identify upstream and downstream dependencies across systems and teams.
• Proactively flag risks and potential impacts prior to implementation.
• Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation such as BRDs, FRDs, process flows, system documentation, test plans, and reports.
• Support production issue triage and root‑cause analysis using business knowledge.
• Act as key liaison between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring smooth deployment, handover, and post‑production support.

• Strong experience in business analysis within financial services or risk management.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and documentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear specifications.

• CFA, FRM, or other counter party credit risk related certifications.
• Experience in Counter party Credit Risk domain.
• Exposure to financial systems and data workflows.

• Financial Services
• Business Analysis

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