Junior Business Analyst
City : Waterloo
Category :
Industry : Materials & Construction
Employer : Stantec
Junior Business Analyst - ( 240003TT )
Description
Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works to support operational excellence. The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. Our Functional Services Teams (FSTs) include Corporate Development, Finance, HR, HSSE, IT, Legal, Marketing/Communications, Practice Services and Real Estate and Procurement. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.
Your Opportunity
Stantec is currently seeking a Business Analyst, Projects, to join our team. Reporting to the Director Finance/Project Accounting Solution Delivery, this position is responsible for engaging with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to translate their business needs into system solutions that achieve desired outcomes.
To accomplish this, you will need to build and maintain strong relationships with designated business process leads and undertake a disciplined approach to develop a keen understanding of business requirements and engage with system experts to design and validate system solutions. This position will predominantly focus on Business Intelligence for Projects at an individual basis and a portfolio view.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engaging with Business Process Leads to understand the business domain and current and future needs.
- Analyzing current state business processes, identifying pain-points, and developing recommendations for process/system improvement.
- Scoping business requirements and formulating a plan with the technical teams to optimally solicit detailed requirements to design and develop the solution most efficiently.
- Combining your domain experience with the business analysis discipline to perform the following activities:
- Conducting stakeholder workshops to elicit requirements.
- Developing process models and other project deliverables using Confluence, Jira or Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
- Assisting with technology assessment and selection.
- Facilitating formal user acceptance testing and participating in testing activities such as test case creation, execution, and issue resolution.
- Provide cross-team training, end user documentation and/or communication.
- Adhering to Stantec’s Solution Delivery Framework and Change Management process requirements.
- Supporting cross-functional programs and projects that may include Finance, IT, Marketing, Project Accounting, and other user communities.
- Being an advocate for business process management.
- Processing service requests, coordinating and participating in testing and implementation for large scale upgrades and integrations.
- Assisting with day-to-day operational issues.
Qualifications
Your Capabilities & Credentials:
- Strong customer service focus with demonstrated interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational, time management, problem solving, and analytical skills.
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
- Excellent team player demonstrated by being held accountable to other team members while also holding other team members to their tasks.
- Proficiency in Microsoft office applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).
- Familiarity with Jira and Confluence
- Understanding and experience working with agile development practices would be a significant asset.
Education & Experience
- Business Analysis experience working in a complex business environment.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a related field. A/E industry experience in project reporting considered an asset.
- Post-secondary degree; ideally related to Business or Management Information Systems.
- An IIBA certification, or substantial progress towards one, would be a significant asset.
- Experience eliciting and documenting high-level and detailed requirements, including use cases.
- Experience in test planning, preparation, and execution. Experience with QA testing tools (qTest) a definite asset.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Primary Location : Canada-Alberta-Edmonton
Other Locations : Canada-Alberta-Calgary, Canada-Manitoba-Winnipeg, Canada-Nova Scotia-Dartmouth, Canada-Ontario-Waterloo, Canada-Ontario-Toronto, Canada-Ontario-Ottawa
Organization : BC-1310 Business Experience-CA Canada
Employee Status : Regular
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Travel : No
Schedule : Full-time
Job Posting : Oct 31, 2024, 5:00:24 AM
Req ID: 240003TT
#additionalStantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans