Senior Business Analyst

Location: Toronto ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid 1 day/week on-site (23 days/week on-site per role description)

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension; FTE conversion agreed upon at the start of this role)
• Pay Rate: C$70.00C$85.00 / Hour (CAD)
• Shift / Schedule: 37.5 hours/week 9:00 AM 5:00 PM Monday to Friday

The role is responsible for providing advice and consultation for business application developments to ensure growth. The role provides technical leadership interpreting complex information and participating in client business review sessions to influence decisions regarding the use of technology to support objectives. The role develops recommends and facilitates activities required for the application of new technologies to support existing processes and client needs. The role provides expertise to project managers coordinators and directors on technology functionality and utilization utilizing a solid understanding of business dynamics. The role independently resolves a variety of ambiguous challenges with organization-wide impacts devising new methods using strong analytic and inductive thinking.

Youll be joining the clients Global Derivatives Technology (Capital Markets Technology) team. As a Business Systems Analyst youll play a pivotal role in designing and delivering technology solutions for OTC derivatives across all asset classes including interest rate FX commodities equities and credit. You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to analyze complex derivative workflows drive requirements gathering and enable scalable resilient platforms that support trading risk operations and compliance functions.

Youll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where youll spend 23 days per week on-site while other days will be remote.

• Product and Trade Lifecycle: Drive initiatives to build and enhance platforms for OTC derivatives supporting trade capture lifecycle management and end-to-end processing across multiple asset classes.
• Requirements and Analysis: Gather analyze and document business and functional requirements create data mappings interface specifications and acceptance criteria. Author high-quality BRDs/FRDs or user stories and ensure traceability from requirements through delivery.
• Solution Design Support: Collaborate with product owners architects and developers to evaluate solution options validate technical feasibility and refine non-functional requirements such as data quality performance and operational resilience.
• Data and APIs: Perform data analysis using SQL contribute to API specifications (REST/JSON) and support integration efforts with internal and external platforms.
• Testing and Delivery: Support UAT planning and execution troubleshoot defects and production issues and facilitate release readiness and post-implementation validation with robust testing and operational controls.
• Collaboration and Communication: Build strong partnerships with Trading Risk Operations Compliance and QA teams. Effectively communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders ensuring alignment on scope priorities and timelines.

• 45 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst in Capital Markets
• Experience with OTC derivatives and trade lifecycle
• Strong SQL and Excel skills
• Data mapping and transformation validation experience
• Requirements gathering (User Stories BRDs FRDs)
• UAT support test scenarios and acceptance criteria
• Production issue analysis and impact assessment
• Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration
• Financial institutional experience and capital markets background
• You can demonstrate at least 3 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst in Capital Markets with hands-on exposure to OTC derivatives and the full trade lifecycle
• Adept at writing requirements (user stories/BRDs/FRDs) acceptance criteria and test scenarios and have direct experience supporting UAT
• Skilled at investigating production issues performing impact analysis and driving enhancements
• Collaborate effectively with both business and technology teams communicate technical topics clearly and facilitate decision-making
• You give meaning to data you enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information and communicate detailed information in a meaningful way
• Youre inspired by collective success you know that teamwork can transform a good idea into a great one and that an inclusive team that enjoys working together can bring a vision to life
• Your influence makes a difference you know that relationships and networks are essential to success and you inspire outcomes by sharing your expertise
• Values matter to you you bring your real self to work and live values of trust teamwork and accountability
• You put clients first you engage with purpose to find the right solutions and go the extra mile because its the right thing to do

• Familiarity with FpML FIX REST APIs and JSON
• Python for data analysis
• Experience with derivatives platforms such as Murex or Calypso
• Data visualization tools such as Power BI Tableau or similar
• Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) Jira and Confluence
• Regulatory reporting knowledge (Dodd-Frank EMIR MiFID II UMR DTCC)

• 45 years as a Business Systems Analyst in Capital Markets

• Medical Vision and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

This client is a large full-service multinational financial services and banking institution offering a comprehensive range of banking wealth management and capital markets products and services to individuals businesses and institutional clients across its home market in Canada and internationally with significant commercial and investment banking presence in the United States and other global markets. The organization employs tens of thousands of professionals including business analysts capital markets specialists technology engineers project managers and compliance professionals who collaborate across enterprise-level teams. The institution offers stability a well-developed training framework and genuine opportunities for career development particularly for professionals entering or growing within financial services and is recognized for its commitments to inclusion diversity and a collaborative purpose-driven culture.

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking financial services technology life sciences biotech utilities and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-08917 Industry: Operations & Management

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