Senior Business Application Analyst

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About the role

  • Senior Business Application Analyst leading business analysis, testing, and delivery governance for TD Securities’ payments and deposits transformation. Bridging business, technology, compliance, and vendor teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end delivery lifecycle across business analysis, quality assurance, testing, implementation, and post-production support
  • Analyze and document current-state and future-state business processes and assess business and system impacts
  • Ensure requirements traceability from requirements through design, testing, implementation, and change management
  • Provide subject matter expertise and thought leadership to drive business value, innovation, scalability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
  • Define and support acceptance criteria, test strategies, test plans, and test cases
  • Lead analysis and definition of business capabilities, target operating models, and solution requirements
  • Assess business opportunities, operational challenges, and regulatory requirements and recommend strategic solutions
  • Govern test execution, defect management, risk mitigation, and quality objectives
  • Support operational readiness, implementation, stabilization, and post-implementation activities
  • Ensure deliverables comply with regulatory obligations, internal controls, risk frameworks, testing standards, and best practices
  • Identify opportunities to improve delivery efficiency, testing effectiveness, automation, and solution quality
  • Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage functional and non-functional requirements
  • Liaise between business and technology teams and align requirements, priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery expectations
  • Lead cross-functional workshops and decision forums
  • Coordinate delivery and testing resources, environments, tools, vendors, and dependencies
  • Manage delivery, testing, operational, compliance, and technology risks and mitigation strategies
  • Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes to stakeholders and senior leadership
  • Influence decisions and facilitate consensus across business, operations, technology, compliance, and vendor partners
  • Contribute to strategic planning, governance, business transformation, and technology modernization
  • Oversee requirements and testing artifacts and ensure enterprise standards, governance, and audit adherence
  • Lead and coordinate delivery and testing teams to achieve milestones, quality objectives, and commitments
  • Promote business analysis, testing, delivery governance, and risk management best practices
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, high-performing team environment
  • Champion continuous learning, innovation, and adoption of delivery and testing best practices

Requirements

  • Undergraduate degree or technical certificate
  • 8+ years of relevant experience
  • 5+ years leading complex cross-functional initiatives within financial services, payments, deposits, or regulatory transformation programs
  • Advanced knowledge of applications supported by the team, including system components, functionality, interfaces, data flows, and business rules
  • Advanced knowledge of the bank's PDLC methodology, business testing, and project management
  • Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Expert knowledge of business analysis frameworks, requirements management, process modeling, testing methodologies, and software delivery lifecycle practices
  • Strong understanding of regulatory, compliance, operational risk, and audit requirements within financial services
  • Substantial knowledge of SWIFT messages, ISO20022, MX and MT formats
  • Knowledge of non-wire payment methods such as drafts and checks
  • Understanding of payment systems including Canada Lynx, US CHIPS, and FedWire
  • Experience with payment data, canonical models, and payment data mapping
  • Ability to create and document Target Operating Models (TOMs)
  • Proficiency in MS Office, Agile methodology, Product Owner mindset, Shift Left testing methodologies, Jira, JTMF, and Confluence
  • Effective oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to bridge business users and technical requirements
  • Ability to collaborate and build relationships across business and technology partners
  • Consulting and/or strategy experience preferred
  • Tier 1 bank or financial institution experience preferred
  • PMP, Agile Certified Practitioner, or Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certifications are assets

Benefits

  • Base salary and variable compensation
  • Health and well-being benefits
  • Savings and retirement programs
  • Paid time off
  • Banking benefits and discounts
  • Career development
  • Reward and recognition programs
  • Regular career, development, and performance conversations
  • Online learning platform
  • Mentoring programs
  • Training and onboarding sessions
  • Interview accommodations, including accessible meeting rooms and captioning for virtual interviews

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$81,600 - CA$115,200 per year

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Tech skills

PMPSwift

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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