Raise is hiring a Senior Business Analyst/Product Manager for Our Client, a market leading financial institution. This position is a six (6)-month contract located in Calgary, Alberta. We are actively seeking talented professionals like you to drive these crucial initiatives forward.
Role Accountabilities:
- Lead product discovery, design and delivery tied to strategic priorities while delivering value to end users.
- Translate and communicate the business vision into outcomes and objectives to support product work.
- Align product work to best practices ensuring we make the right choices to deliver against our client's goals and objectives while limiting barriers, roadblocks or re-work.
- Define and manage product roadmaps (concept, requirements, development, delivery and refinement)
- Aligning business and operational needs with intent to solve important customer problems while achieving business goals.
- Lead the creation of Business Cases in order to define business problems, value propositions and outcomes.
- Ability to gain a deep understanding of business needs, features/functionality and translate those into the user stories or requirements.
- Facilitating workshops with different levels and skill sets to elicit business need and requirements tied to application functionality and overall user experience.
- Navigate through Request for Proposals (RFPs) to ensure the right solutions are selected to align to business needs, outcomes and strategy (incl. requirements, vendor demos and assessments, score carding etc.)
- Map out and communicate end to end business and technical processes.
- Build value-driven relationships with stakeholders, cross-functional teams, senior leadership and our partners.
- Define success metrics for your product and drive all product efforts to those measures.
- Maintain a backlog of future enhancements or operational improvements and work directly with the business to prioritize based on business/user need.
- Define risks, assumptions, dependencies and constraints and impact to the product delivery.
- Build a deep understanding of the voice of the user and identify the requirements and impacts to the product.
- Collaborate with external (Vendors) and internal (Engineering, Design, Marketing, Communication, Adoption) cross functional team members to enable the product vision.
- Build a solid knowledge base across specific business domains and their series of products and services.
- Consistently identify areas to improve the product practice through approach, practice, templates etc.
- Ask the right questions, craft solutions and deliver user validated digital products to meet business needs.
Qualifications:
- Deep understanding of Private Investment Management, Dealer, Asset Management, Order Management is highly sought after.
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Commerce, Information Technology (i.e. MIS) or equivalent experience
- 5-7 years of related project or product delivery experience
- 5+ years co-leading or leading initiatives across digital products as a Product Manager/ Business Analyst
- Deep understanding and application of product delivery practices are required – Agile/XP/SCRUM, work processes and business analysis methodologies.
- Commitment to empathy for the end user; user-centric focus and approach
- Comfort and confidence in decision-making with executive leadership, areas of expertise and strategic support units.
- Collaborate with partners and internal cross functional team members to enable end user value (Engineering, Design, Marketing, Communication, Adoption)
- Break down complex problems into actionable steps (and opportunities)
- Define and drive out options for a problem or find a way of looking at things differently.
- Define and drive out task management actions and activities.
- Knowledge and application of business analysis concepts, tools and processes
- Knowledge of IT resources and enabling technologies; software, architecture and databases
- Excellent communication skills across oral and written.
- Technical fluency: types and application of technologies to deliver a business need – applications, integrations and data sources.
- Understanding and application on agile and user-centered design values, principles and practices
- Create an environment that supports inclusion, recognizes bias and promotes psychological safety.
Nice to Haves:
- Product Management / Business Analysis certification is an advantage.
- Software development experience is an asset.
- Conducting RFPs for Consultancy / Implementation is an asset.
- Banking, Wealth Management, Investment Management, Financial Industry experience is a differentiator.
Raise is an established hiring firm with over 60 years of experience. We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in and encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups. We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified people to apply. Connecting professionals like you with meaningful work at industry-leading companies in your field. And we walk the walk, too: as a Certified B Corporation, we believe in using business as a force for good for people, our communities, and the environment.
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