Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

Business Analyst, Financial Management and Reporting (FMR)

Ontario Teachers Pension Plan$105K — $155K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • University degree in Business/Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or Engineering
  • CPA designation is a strong asset
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in business analysis or corporate finance, preferably in the finance industry
  • Solid knowledge of General Ledger, corporate finance, and financial planning
  • Experience with data modeling and analytics tools like SQL; familiarity with AI capabilities in Finance
  • Excellent communication skills; both verbal and written
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders to gather and clarify business requirements
  • Produce high-quality analysis artifacts such as user stories and data flows
  • Identify viable solution options and facilitate selection of optimal approaches
  • Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to ensure solutions meet business needs
  • Maintain end-to-end requirement traceability throughout the lifecycle
  • Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), define strategies, and obtain sign-off
  • Work closely with QA to create effective test plans and validate requirements

Benefits

  • Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Comprehensive employer-paid benefits coverage
  • Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
  • Flexible work environment combining in-office collaboration and remote work
  • Competitive time off policies
  • Unique opportunity to work abroad for up to a month per year through the Flexible Travel Program
  • Access to employee discount programs like Edvantage and Perkopolis
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

As a Business Analyst, you are passionate about business analysis, technology solutions, and agile product delivery practices. You thrive in environments where business, technology, data and AI capabilities intersect to deliver measurable value to Financial Management & Reporting business partners.

You will play a key role across the full product lifecycle - from discovery and requirements through engineering solutions, test validation, and continuous improvement. Beyond traditional business analysis, you bring strong understanding of modern engineering practices, AI-enabled solutions, automation, and testing excellence.

Who you will work with

You will be part of the Financial Management and Reporting (FMR) product team within the Corporate Business Technology Department. In this dynamic role, teamwork will be the key to your success as you work collaboratively within a cross functional team such as Product Owner, Product Engineers, QAs and vendor consultants. You will be supporting and enabling our Financial Management & Reporting (FMR), Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Business partners on a wide range of business capabilities such as General ledger, account payable, reconciliation, reporting, financial planning, forecasting and budgeting as well as internal controls.

What you will do
  • Partner with business stakeholders to elicit requirements and clarify objectives
  • Produce high-quality analysis artifacts including functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, current/future state processes, data flows, and AI/automation opportunity assessments
  • Identify and evaluate viable solution options; facilitate selection of optimal approaches
  • Collaborate with internal product engineers and external vendor consultants to ensure solutions align with business intent and deliver measurable value
  • Maintain end-to-end requirement traceability
  • Lead and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT): define strategy, plan cycles, review test cases, support UAT execution, and obtain sign-off
  • Work closely with QA to develop effective test plans and ensure accurate validation of requirements


What you will need
  • University degree or equivalent experience (Business/Finance, accounting, Computer Science, Engineering)
  • CPA would be considered as a strong asset
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in business analysis or Corporate Finance & Financial Planning areas, preferably from the Finance industry
  • Good knowledge of General Ledger, Corporate Finance, Account Payment, Internal Control, Financial Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting.
  • Experience and skills in data modelling, data analytics tools such as SQL and data querying
  • Familiarity with AI capabilities such as generative AI user cases in Finance, agentic automation and intelligent data processing.
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
  • Ability to prioritize, coordinate and complete tasks to meet deadlines
  • Ability to work independently and in a team environment, collaborating effectively with business, delivery and technology partners
  • Experience in working with vendor and managing vendor expectations.
  • Good understanding of techniques and tools pertaining to the planning, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of technology solutions
  • Robust understanding of agile delivery methodologies
  • Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with multiple levels of clients, team and partners.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with the following technologies is an asset: Infor Financials & Supply Management system or other General Ledger systems. Anaplan, Snowflake, Workiva, Microsoft PowerBI.


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What we're offering
Pay-for-performance with base salary and annual incentive based on individual and enterprise performance.The Base Salary range for this level is as follows:$105,000 - $155,000.Individual compensation and placement of this role in the range is based on different factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, demonstrated competencies, and internal equity as they relate to the role.

  • Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage
  • Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
  • The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program
  • A flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
  • Competitive time off
  • Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year
  • Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis


How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

Functional Areas:
Corporate Services

Vacancy:

Current

Requisition ID:

6937

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About Ontario Teachers Pension Plan

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board is an independent organization responsible for administering defined-benefit pensions for school teachers of the Canadian province of Ontario. Ontario Teachers' also invests the plan's pension fund and it is one of the world's largest institutional investors, acting as a partner organization of the World Economic Forum. The plan is a multi-employer pension plan, jointly sponsored by the Government of Ontario and the Ontario Teachers' Federation. Ontario Teachers' achieved a 11.1% one-year total-fund net return in 2021 and achieved its ninth consecutive fully funded year.
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