Senior Business System Analyst Category: Business Analysis (functional and technical)
Main location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Position ID:J1026-0390
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: This hybrid role requires a minimum of two days per week onsite at our downtown Toronto and/or client office located at Toronto. This requirement is subject to change based on business needs.
Your future duties and responsibilities:• Lead impact assessments for FED and SWIFT releases, including deferred releases, new standards, and regulatory changes such as the SR 2026 Deferred Release and future SWIFT updates.
• Assess impacts across business processes, systems, data, operations, technology, and downstream stakeholders.
• Drive updates to change requests and business cases, including scope, costs, timelines, dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations for 2027 deployments.
• Partner with business, operations, technology, and external stakeholders to gather requirements, facilitate workshops, and align implementation readiness.
• Perform data analysis and data cleanup to support future-state requirements.
• Remediate templates, documentation, reference data, and business process artifacts as required.
• Provide end-to-end delivery support, including requirements management, impact assessment documentation, traceability, testing, UAT coordination, and executive-level reporting.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and readiness gaps, and provide recommendations to support successful FED and SWIFT program execution.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:• 5+ years of experience as a Functional Business Analyst in financial services, banking, payments, or transaction processing environments.
• Strong understanding of payment systems, payment processing lifecycle, and related business operations.
• Experience with FED, SWIFT, ISO 20022, payment standards, regulatory changes, or financial messaging initiatives.
• Proven ability to conduct business, process, system, data, and operational impact assessments.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and traceability skills.
• Experience documenting functional requirements, business rules, process flows, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into clear functional specifications.
• Experience facilitating workshops and collaborating with business, operations, technology, compliance, and external stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with data analysis, cleansing, reconciliation, mapping, and validation.
• Experience supporting change requests and business cases, including scope, cost, timelines, dependencies, risks, and benefits.
• Experience coordinating testing, UAT, defect resolution, and implementation readiness activities.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile delivery, change management, and release management processes.
• Excellent communication, analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex, fast-paced financial services environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Jira, Confluence, or similar business analysis tools.
"CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $100,000-$150,000. This role is an existing vacancy."
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Skills: - Data Analysis
- Document Management
- Financial Services
- SWIFT
- Testing
