Senior Business Analyst Enterprise Security

The Opportunity

The Senior Business Analyst Enterprise Security plays a key role in enabling Enterprise Security initiative delivery. This role focuses on understanding business needs, translating them into clear technical requirements, and ensuring solutions effectively support organizational goals. It combines business analysis leadership with cyber security advisory capabilities to guide secure solution design and execution.

Who You'll Work With

Reporting to the Director, Cyber Security, you will work within the Enterprise Security team under Technology Services. The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional partners, including development, testing, operations, IT security, and external vendors and peers, to ensure secure and high-quality solution delivery.

• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to gather requirements, track progress, identify risks, and resolve blockers.
• Capture, validate, and translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications, configuration needs, and functional designs.
• Prioritize requirements and user stories in alignment with project milestones and timelines.
• Produce high-quality analysis documentation including requirements, workflows, current/future-state processes, and reporting specifications.
• Analyze existing and future business processes, identify improvement opportunities, and model workflows.
• Support testing activities to confirm that implemented solutions meet documented requirements.
• Oversee defect management and develop mitigation strategies to ensure solution quality.
• Provide advisory and consulting services to ensure security requirements and best practices are embedded throughout design, development, and delivery.
• Make recommendations based on analysis of cyber security trends, threats, technologies, and good practices.
• Partner with vendors to ensure solutions meet organizational requirements and quality expectations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, representing Enterprise Security in relevant working groups.
• Recommend and implement enhancements to processes, tools, and delivery practices to improve efficiency and solution quality.

What You'll Do

• Engage business clients to elicit business requirements and understand objectives, working with business and solution teams to ensure delivered solutions meet business intent and provide value.
• Conceive, propose, and facilitate the selection of viable functional solution alternatives.
• Produce high-quality business analysis documentation, functional specifications, current and future state processes and workflows, and solution specifications.
• Identify internal and external data sources and deliver data mapping specifications or data workspaces to support applications and reports.
• Work with Data Vendor Manager and business partners to assess data costs and facilitate acquisition of new external vendor content.
• Document the flow and transformation of data from suppliers through data repositories/warehouses to end-user datamarts/applications.
• Provide input and influence Solution design to achieve business outcomes, including detailed profiling to inform new data models while understanding the strategic direction of MS curated data.
• Understand and leverage physical data models including relational models, cubes, dimensions, facts, and measures for use in reports and analytics.
• Provide effective business context, solution knowledge, and artifact transfer to Support teams as part of progressing initiatives to Production.
• Demonstrate requirements traceability and oversee the User Acceptance phase of initiatives (define strategy, plan, approve test cases, lead execution).
• Work with Business, Product Owner, Solution Engineering, and QA to ensure built solutions meet stated requirements.
• Work with senior management across partner teams to define initiative scope on new projects/product developments.
• Lead in the initiation and planning of new projects, including facilitating the definition of objectives, scope, BA approach, and WBS, and providing work estimates.
• Work with Development and QA teams to inform the test strategy, develop test plans, and ensure understanding of business requirements for testing solutions.
• Work across Service and Product teams, strategizing with PMs and SDM/POs to identify interdependencies and establish delivery plans.
• Lead discussions and meetings to achieve desired outcomes with a variety of technical and business audiences, including senior partners.
• Partner with Product Owners/Service Request Managers to deliver business value messaging to partners and sponsors.
• Work with Agile delivery teams to map user stories and define user acceptance criteria for work packages.
• Contribute to the operation and improvement of the delivery team.
• Exercise appropriate judgment in identifying and calling out risks and issues.
• Coach and develop more junior Business Analysts or other delivery team members through feedback, document review, role modeling, training, and experience sharing.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) or equivalent is an asset.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent is an asset.
• A cybersecurity certification, such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent is an asset.
• Data Management experience and database knowledge, PowerBI, using SQL (e.g. Oracle, Snowflake) is an asset.
• Process Improvement Methodology such as Lean or Six Sigma accreditation is an asset.
• Minimum 10 years experience in business analysis execution, preferably in a financial institution environment.
• Minimum 5 years experience leading complex end-to-end initiatives in senior business analyst capacity.
• Experienced in implementing/enhancing applications and tools including IAM, SIEM, SASE, ServiceNow solutions using JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Proven experience in facilitating delivery of complex projects with competing priorities.
• Experience with and understanding of leading practices in business analysis, project management, and process improvement.
• Ability to translate business requirements to technical specifications.
• Cyber security or information security experience in the financial services industry is considered an an asset.
• Agility in adapting to new challenges, tools, and methodologies.
• Past experience with cloud migration is highly valued.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in team environments.
• Ability to prioritize, coordinate, and complete tasks to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated leadership, initiative, and ownership.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with all levels of management and staff.
• Resourcefulness, creativity, and sound judgment.

What We’re Offering

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage.
• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan.
• The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program.
• A flexible work environment combining in-office collaboration and remote working.
• Competitive time off.
• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year.
• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis.

How To Apply

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Key skills/competency

• Business Analysis
• Cyber Security
• Enterprise Security
• Requirements Elicitation
• Solution Design
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Management
• Process Improvement
• IAM/SIEM/SASE