OMERS

Senior Business Analyst (Investment & Enterprise Technology)

Toronto, Ontario Full time

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Job Summary:

The Senior Business Analyst for Program Management & Delivery - Platform Engineering, AI and Advanced Analytics will join a team responsible for delivering the products and platforms that enable OMERS  Investments to analyze investment opportunities, make investment decisions, and optimize the OMERS investment portfolio as well as support major transformational initiatives across the enterprise. The Snr. Business Analyst works closely with investment teams including Capital Markets, Infrastructure, Private Equity, Growth Equity, and Ventures, as well as with Finance, Risk & Compliance teams. 

As a key member of the Program Management & Delivery team, the Snr. Business Analyst is responsible for improving data and analytics capabilities, championing industry best practices, and delivering high-quality business requirements to support investment decision-making. 

The Senior Business Analyst will analyze existing systems and document requirements for new systems and features. They will cultivate a business relationship to assist in meeting business demands and collaborate with Power BI developers, data scientists, and investment professionals to support and engage in technical support, research, and integration as part of one or more product teams. 
 
As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:  

Technical: 

  • Documenting existing business processes, identifying opportunities to create efficiencies, and ensuring technical teams understand what to build to automate them 

  • Analyzing existing systems’ functionality, data, and infrastructure and how they communicate with other systems 

  • Identifying and defining detailed product requirements and use cases using various techniques, such as user stories, requirements documents, use case diagrams, and data flow diagrams 

  • Investigating, evaluating, and proposing solutions to identified problems 

  • Chairing design review sessions, ensuring requirements are accurately captured and understood by those working to meet them 

  • Defining and executing business test plans, performing performance and integration tests, and helping automate regression tests 

 

Organizational: 

  • Collaborate with the Program Manager and team to understand and deliver against the goals 

  • Operating in a hybrid Agile/waterfall development environment  

  • Communicating effectively with other analysts and various other partners such as product managers, data engineers, IT infrastructure specialists, security specialists, enterprise architects and members of senior management  

  • Leading change and communicating impacts to partners and fellow team members  

  • Identifying, defining and implementing opportunities for improving existing processes 

  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and ensure timely delivery 

  • Serving as a liaison to the business community 

  • Leading small projects in the role of project manager  

 

Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years of experience in understanding the capabilities in complicated interconnected systems, and in finding ways to document them, so they can be easily understood by other people. Financial industry application is preferred. Working on large programs and projects is preferred. 

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific or engineering field of study or equivalent work experience 

  • CBAP certification is considered an asset 

  • Knowledge of Industry best practices. Demonstrated ability to ask probing questions to uncover underlying business needs and translate them into clear technical requirements 

  • Financial and Investment systems knowledge preferred  

  • Experience working in Private or Capital Markets is advantageous 

  • Relationship Building. Consistent track record of building deep business relationships. Experience in aligning expectations across various partners 

  • Teamwork. Motivated and keen to work in a collaborative environment with a focus on team success 

 

 We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week.  

  

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

 

The expected salary range for this position is $86,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year.

 

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

 

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

 

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.