Business Analyst

Who We Are

Anchored in our purpose to help clients achieve their financial goals, Odlum Brown has remained an independent, full-service investment firm for over 100 years. Wholly owned by its team members, the firm continues its tradition of leadership in the financial community as one of BC’s most respected investment firms.

Anchored in our purpose to help clients achieve their financial goals, Odlum Brown has remained an independent, full-service investment firm for over 100 years. Wholly owned by its team members, the firm continues its tradition of leadership in the financial community as one of BC’s most respected investment firms.

We have an opportunity for a Business Analyst to join our award-winning firm in the Vancouver office.

The Business Analyst partners with business stakeholders and technology teams to identify business needs, analyze processes, document requirements, and support the delivery of strategic initiatives. The role is responsible for translating business objectives into actionable requirements and ensuring solutions align with organizational goals and regulatory obligations.

• Elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process reviews
• Develop clear documentation, including business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and process maps
• Translate business needs into actionable requirements for technical teams
• Support solution design to ensure alignment with business objectives

• Analyze current business processes and identify opportunities for efficiency and automation
• Document current-state and future-state workflows
• Recommend process improvements to reduce operational risk and improve client and employee experiences
• Assist in the development of business cases and cost-benefit analyses

• Collaborate with project managers, vendors, and cross-functional teams to support project execution
• Participate in planning, testing, implementation, and post-implementation activities
• Track requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies

• Develop test scenarios and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Validate delivered solutions against documented requirements
• Coordinate defect resolution and business sign-off activities

• Build trusted working relationships with business units, technology teams, and vendors
• Facilitate meetings to support alignment, decision-making, and issue resolution
• Present findings, recommendations, project updates, and supporting documentation to stakeholders and leadership

• Analysis – Assess quantitative and qualitative data, information, or situations to understand the most important details, identify patterns or meaning, and translate it into useful recommendations, decisions, or actions
• Change Management – Create strategies, plans and solutions that guide people and teams through change to ensure smooth transitions, buy-in, and sustained outcomes
• Consulting – Conduct discovery, plan and design solutions, implement strategies, and provide advice to stakeholders within the firm to solve challenges, achieve target state and/or improve performance
• Process Improvement and Documentation – Uncover, understand, document, optimize and communicate processes to make them more efficient, effective, and consistent
• Project Management – Plan, coordinate, execute, and oversee projects, balancing time, resources, and scope to achieve objectives, support stakeholders, and meet deadlines
• Requirements Gathering – Discover, identify, document, and validate business needs to inform system or vendor selection, solution development, and/or project planning
• Software Development – Design, build, deploy, and maintain software solutions to meet functional and technical requirements

• 3+ years of Business Analysis experience delivering on business and technology projects
• Experience in investment management, wealth management, brokerage, or related financial services environments
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