Business Analyst - Data & Analytics
- Recruiter
- Cognizant Technology Solutions
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 29 Oct 2020
- Closes
- 02 Nov 2020
- Ref
- 00039032842
- Job role
- Business analyst, CFO
- Sector
- Digital
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst for IFRS17 project who can work with finance business, IT teams and external stakeholders to build the solution for Finance.
You will
• Analyze business needs with our users in order to define IT functional solutions for data integration and consumption.
• Lead / participate in business requirements specification workshops to specify IT solutions, after consulting with IT stakeholders.
• Provide support and guidance to business on IT when required.
• Translate business requirements into ETL requirements to hand over to developers.
• Attend data modeling sessions by providing information about the business needs.
• Verify and validate business requirements using prototyping techniques, traceability matrices, as well as the definition of scenarios and test cases.
• Analyze, profile data.
• Act as a Product Owner for the scrum team. Understanding business requirements and priorities, write user stories, groom product and sprint back log with the team.
• Work with architects, developers and testers during the development of the solution.
• Support the development of solutions and the performed analysis.
• Participate in test activities with business and IT.
• Conduct impact assessments and effort estimates for approving and documenting the IT solution using effective methods and interacting with both business users and the IT project team.
You have
Nice to Have
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 194 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.
You will
• Analyze business needs with our users in order to define IT functional solutions for data integration and consumption.
• Lead / participate in business requirements specification workshops to specify IT solutions, after consulting with IT stakeholders.
• Provide support and guidance to business on IT when required.
• Translate business requirements into ETL requirements to hand over to developers.
• Attend data modeling sessions by providing information about the business needs.
• Verify and validate business requirements using prototyping techniques, traceability matrices, as well as the definition of scenarios and test cases.
• Analyze, profile data.
• Act as a Product Owner for the scrum team. Understanding business requirements and priorities, write user stories, groom product and sprint back log with the team.
• Work with architects, developers and testers during the development of the solution.
• Support the development of solutions and the performed analysis.
• Participate in test activities with business and IT.
• Conduct impact assessments and effort estimates for approving and documenting the IT solution using effective methods and interacting with both business users and the IT project team.
You have
- Bachelor's degree in a field related to data integration.
- Related experience of 5 to 8 years in functional analysis.
- Experience in business intelligence/ data warehouse environment
- Knowledge of development methodologies (Agile BI, SDLC, SCRUM, Kanban).
- Knowledge of writing user stories, understanding business priorities and sizing of user stories.
- Familiar with Source to Target Mapping (one to one, Multiple sources to single target, Single source to multiple targets)
- Expertise in data behaviour analysis and profiling.
- Experience and knowledge in Oracle and PL / SQL databases.
- Experience and application knowledge in the insurance field. Insurance certification is a plus.
- Knowledge in data modeling.
- Very good communication skills, spoken and written, with IT management as well as with our business partners and our management team.
- Able to work independently and as a team.
- Team-oriented and demonstrates collaborative skills.
- Knowledge of Financial processes
Nice to Have
- Experience and knowledge of financial systems. IFRS4, IFRS17, ERP
- Experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Business Objects and SAS.
- Analytix
- Knowledge in business intelligence / data warehouses Tools like Data Vault, Informatica, PL / SQL, Oracle, Hortonworks, Hadoop, etc.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 194 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.