Business Analyst

Our financial services client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with Data Lifecycle & Records Management experience to join under an immediate contract to fiscal year end of 2027.

Senior Business Analyst

Contract Opportunity | Financial Services

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education

• Undergraduate degree required.
• Preference given to candidates with Business Analysis Accreditation.

Experience

• The candidate profile indicates 3–5 years of overall experience.
• The detailed role requirements specify a minimum of 8 years of progressive business-analysis experience, including at least 3 years supporting enterprise data/document migration, system implementation, or integration.

Preferred Background

• Senior business-analysis experience supporting complex enterprise system implementations involving data or document migration.
• Financial services, legal operations, or regulated-information experience is preferred.

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

The Senior Business Analyst will lead diverse business, technology, and vendor stakeholders through the end-to-end business analysis lifecycle for a legal document-management implementation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for gathering and documenting business, functional, non-functional, data, and migration requirements; source-to-target mapping; requirements traceability; and migration/testing readiness.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Requirements Gathering & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, analyze, document, and manage business requirements throughout the lifecycle of an initiative, ensuring alignment with business needs and strategic objectives.
• Gather and document business, data, metadata, migration, security/access, records-management, and testing requirements.
• Use various techniques to elicit, challenge, validate, and achieve consensus on requirements with stakeholders.
• Ensure impacted business processes and systems are analyzed, with acceptance criteria clearly demonstrating the changes required to meet business needs.
• Identify and document requirements-related dependencies and constraints by bridging communication between business and technology stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and support test-script development and subsequent testing of solutions.
• Communicate testing issues and support their resolution.

2. Data & Document Migration

• Create, validate, and maintain source-to-target data, metadata, and field mappings across source, document-management, and matter-management platforms.
• Identify unresolved fields and obtain decisions from the appropriate business owners.
• Translate future-state migration processes and control dependencies into clear requirements, decision records, acceptance criteria, and testable outcomes.
• Lead business analysis for data/document migration planning, including source profiling, eligibility rules, migration scope, work packages, sequencing, dependencies, and business readiness.
• Support migration dry runs and testing by defining representative data, expected outcomes, reconciliation controls, exception scenarios, duplicate/delta behaviour, and evidence requirements.

3. Testing & Requirements Traceability

• Own and maintain requirements traceability from approved requirements through solution design, test scenarios, test cases, defects, results, and business acceptance.
• Support application, migration, integration, System Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Ensure requirements are sufficiently detailed to support effective testing and business acceptance.
• Support the identification, documentation, and resolution of testing issues.

4. Records Management, Security & Compliance

• Elicit and document role, group, workspace, and restricted-access requirements.
• Support validation of entitlement and inherited-security