Title: Business Analyst
Loaction: Toronto, ON (Remote)
Duration: 8 months (Possibilty of extension)
Job description & Roles and responsibilities:
- The candidate will be expected to lead regular status meetings to connect project threads, uncover potential risks/issues and track progress.
- Manage an offshore business analyst in day-to-day tasks.
- Understand business strategy and objectives by studying the business function, gathering information, and evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Elicits and documents requirements to meet business needs.
- Possess understanding of business analysis professional standards, business processes, workflows, methodologies, and leading practices.
- Direct and monitor business analysis activities to ensure the traceability and optimum coverage of business requirements with change request backlog.
- Manage the progress of projects by tracking activity, resolving issues, and recommending actions; Provides senior management and project management with regular updates on deliverable timeline and project status.
- Respond proactively to both business and project issues and escalates appropriately. Post on knowledge sharing and team collaboration sites. Share best practices internally/externally
- A bachelors degree is Arts or science on related field or equivalent experience is required.
- Advanced degree and relevant professional services training and development preferred.