Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Business Analyst

Royal Bank of Canada$95K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of experience as a BA/BSA in Agile environments
  • Expert in requirements gathering, documentation, and testing
  • Strong knowledge in Brokerage, Investments, Personal Finance, and Wealth Management
  • Demonstrated ability to gather business and systems requirements independently
  • Experience with large cost projects (over $2 million) and web application development
  • Deep understanding of requirements documentation tools like JIRA/Confluence and Visio
  • Strong communication skills, experienced in large stakeholder facilitation

Responsibilities

  • Lead business analysis for medium to large projects within Wealth Management
  • Perform stakeholder analysis to identify requirements
  • Develop project plans with accurate estimates for requirements completion
  • Lead Agile ceremonies in collaboration with the Product Owner
  • Manage project risks and communicate effectively with stakeholders
  • Facilitate sessions for requirements discovery and analysis
  • Build a reusable documentation repository to support future initiatives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leadership committed to coaching and development
  • Opportunities to create a lasting impact
  • Collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team environment
  • World-class training program in financial services
  • Challenging work opportunities with growth potential
  • Ability to build strong client relationships
  • Access to diverse job opportunities across business and geographies
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

You will be responsible for Lead business analysis activities on medium to large size projects within RBC Wealth Management for the Direct Investing /InvestEase product. The role demonstrates advanced knowledge and ability, and can apply the competency in new or complex situations and guides other professionals.

The role is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support.

What will you do?
  • Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities
  • Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates
  • Lead various Agile ceremonies, alongside the Product Owner
  • Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
  • Lead & Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review
  • Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards in Confluence
  • Prepare requirements for review applying various communication techniques and lead requirements walkthrough
  • Work collaboratively with Product, Strategy and the UI/UX Design team, to design and build application UI pages
  • Provide ongoing requirements/build/testing support to the developers and QA team
  • Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation
  • Provide consulting services to business partners on new initiatives
  • Continually enhance skills and build knowledge in all aspects of the organization, the business, and information technology
  • Provide guidance and support to build the capabilities of the junior BAs


What do you need to succeed?

Must have skills:
  • Minimum 8-10 years professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment. Expert at requirements gathering, documentation, testing and developing high level plans.
  • Proven Brokerage /Investments, Personal Finance, and Wealth Management industry knowledge/experience
  • Prior project experience in client facing web application development, preferably from a major FI
  • Proven experience in Agile methodology
  • Proven ability to gather Business and Systems requirements independently, having strong business analysis and systems analysis skills.
  • Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
  • Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders; Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15-20 or more).
  • Excellent collaboration skills, attention to detail, gap analysis, and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time. Experience working on medium to large projects - over $2 million.
  • Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modeling tools (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)


Nice-to-have
  • RBC BA/BSA Curriculum Certificate
  • Masters Certificate in Business Analysis
  • Prior experience in enterprise level and mobile projects
  • Past testing experience in API's using Postman
  • Knowledge of current Accessibility standards (AODA and WCAG 2.0/2.1)


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • A world-class training program in financial services.
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
  • Opportunities to building close relationships with clients
  • Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.


RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.

Job Skills
Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-08-21

Application Deadline:

2026-09-05
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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