Business System Analyst

Business System Analyst

6-month contract, hybrid, downtown Toronto

We're working with a client in Toronto seeking an experienced Business System Analyst with strong Capital Markets experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and document business and system requirements; define functional and non functional specifications with stakeholders


• Analyse legacy codebases (C#, PowerShell, batch scripts, Python, quant libraries, R) to uncover business rules and decision logic, data transformations and workflows, and integration patterns and dependencies


• Decompose technical implementations into functional processes, business capabilities, and user/system interactions


• Derive technical specs like api contracts


• Support system integration, testing and validation - including quant output-parity validation between legacy and re-platformed logic


• Translate business processes into technical workflows for the target state


• Collaborate with development and quant teams to ensure accurate implementation


• Use AI tools to accelerate code analysis and to draft specifications and requirement artefacts

Required skills & experience

• 3-5 years as a Business Systems Analyst


• Mandatory Asset Management or Capital Markets experience


• Strong documentation and communication skills; Agile familiarity


• Experience using AI to analyse code and create specifications

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS-hosted applications