Do You have 8+ years experience leading business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement)? Do You have experience with business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects? If so, this would be a great opportunity for you!
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Our client is looking for a Senior Business Analyst for a 8 month contract in Toronto.
This is a hybrid role.
Advantages
• Hybrid - 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
• Earn a competitive rate within the industry
Responsibilities
• Lead business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement).
• Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects.
• Act as a key liaison between business units, architects, developers, and governance bodies to ensure alignment between business needs and technical designs.
• Conduct current-state assessments and gap analyses, identifying improvement opportunities across business processes, service delivery models, and digital user journeys.
• Support the governance and approvals process through the Architecture Review Board (ARB), including the development of business cases, checkpoint artifacts, and impact assessments.
• Collaborate with ARB to ensure initiatives align with enterprise IT strategy, principles, and roadmaps.
• Prepare and maintain documentation required for project approvals, including stakeholder briefings, options analysis, benefit realization tracking, and risk registers.
• Lead or support stakeholder engagement sessions, workshops, and user interviews to gather business needs and translate them into actionable documentation.
• Develop and maintain process documentation such as BPMN diagrams, SOPs, and use case models to enable change management, training, and continuous improvement.
• Support organizational readiness and change adoption activities, working closely with program managers and business leads.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements, system functionality, and testing activities throughout the solution delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in procurement activities including RFx development, vendor demos, evaluation criteria design, and responses analysis.
Qualifications
MUST HAVES:
• 8+ years experience leading business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement).
• Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects.
• Support the governance and approvals process through the Architecture Review Board (ARB), including the development of business cases, checkpoint artifacts, and impact assessments.
• Act as a key liaison between business units, architects, developers, and governance bodies to ensure alignment between business needs and technical designs.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
8+ years of progressive experience in business analysis, including work on complex, multi-stakeholder digital transformation initiatives.
Proven experience supporting enterprise modernization programs across one or more domains: procurement, financials, content/document management, or IT service delivery.
Strong understanding of governance, particularly around architectural compliance, digital standards, and risk management processes.
Experience preparing governance documentation and leading initiatives through checkpoint gates such as ARB.
Ability to synthesize business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and decision support artifacts for technical and executive audiences.
Experience with workflow/process improvement, lean analysis, and business process modeling (e.g., BPMN).
Familiarity with Agile methodologies, sprint-based planning, and hybrid delivery approaches in the context.
Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate cross-functional teams, and deliver quality work within tight timelines.
Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to drive consensus and articulate value.
Desirable Skills:
Knowledge of digital standards (e.g., OPS I&IT directives, GO-ITS), procurement processes, and accountability frameworks.
Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart.
Exposure to SaaS platforms such as ServiceNow, OpenText from a business requirements perspective.
Understanding of change management practices and methodologies
Certification or training in Business Analysis (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA), Agile (e.g., Scrum Master, Product Owner), or Lean Six Sigma, or ITIL.
Core Competencies:
Exceptional analytical skills with a strong ability to deconstruct complex systems and simplify for business understanding.
Skilled communicator with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong organizational awareness, with the ability to navigate large enterprise structures.
Proactive, curious, and resilient; capable of leading through ambiguity and working independently with minimal oversight.
Detail-oriented yet able to see the bigger picture and align work to strategic goals.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems, Policy, or a related field is required.
Professional certifications in business analysis, Agile, or project management are considered strong assets.
Summary
If you are interested in the Senior Business Analyst role in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Do You have 8+ years experience leading business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement)? Do You have experience with business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects? If so, this would be a great opportunity for you!
Our client is looking for a Senior Business Analyst for a 8 month contract in Toronto.
This is a hybrid role.
Advantages
• Hybrid - 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
• Earn a competitive rate within the industry
Responsibilities
• Lead business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement).
• Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects.
• Act as a key liaison between business units, architects, developers, and governance bodies to ensure alignment between business needs and technical designs.
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• Conduct current-state assessments and gap analyses, identifying improvement opportunities across business processes, service delivery models, and digital user journeys.
• Support the governance and approvals process through the Architecture Review Board (ARB), including the development of business cases, checkpoint artifacts, and impact assessments.
• Collaborate with ARB to ensure initiatives align with enterprise IT strategy, principles, and roadmaps.
• Prepare and maintain documentation required for project approvals, including stakeholder briefings, options analysis, benefit realization tracking, and risk registers.
• Lead or support stakeholder engagement sessions, workshops, and user interviews to gather business needs and translate them into actionable documentation.
• Develop and maintain process documentation such as BPMN diagrams, SOPs, and use case models to enable change management, training, and continuous improvement.
• Support organizational readiness and change adoption activities, working closely with program managers and business leads.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements, system functionality, and testing activities throughout the solution delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in procurement activities including RFx development, vendor demos, evaluation criteria design, and responses analysis.
Qualifications
MUST HAVES:
• 8+ years experience leading business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement).
• Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects.
• Support the governance and approvals process through the Architecture Review Board (ARB), including the development of business cases, checkpoint artifacts, and impact assessments.
• Act as a key liaison between business units, architects, developers, and governance bodies to ensure alignment between business needs and technical designs.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
8+ years of progressive experience in business analysis, including work on complex, multi-stakeholder digital transformation initiatives.
Proven experience supporting enterprise modernization programs across one or more domains: procurement, financials, content/document management, or IT service delivery.
Strong understanding of governance, particularly around architectural compliance, digital standards, and risk management processes.
Experience preparing governance documentation and leading initiatives through checkpoint gates such as ARB.
Ability to synthesize business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and decision support artifacts for technical and executive audiences.
Experience with workflow/process improvement, lean analysis, and business process modeling (e.g., BPMN).
Familiarity with Agile methodologies, sprint-based planning, and hybrid delivery approaches in the context.
Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate cross-functional teams, and deliver quality work within tight timelines.
Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to drive consensus and articulate value.
Desirable Skills:
Knowledge of digital standards (e.g., OPS I&IT directives, GO-ITS), procurement processes, and accountability frameworks.
Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart.
Exposure to SaaS platforms such as ServiceNow, OpenText from a business requirements perspective.
Understanding of change management practices and methodologies
Certification or training in Business Analysis (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA), Agile (e.g., Scrum Master, Product Owner), or Lean Six Sigma, or ITIL.
Core Competencies:
Exceptional analytical skills with a strong ability to deconstruct complex systems and simplify for business understanding.
Skilled communicator with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong organizational awareness, with the ability to navigate large enterprise structures.
Proactive, curious, and resilient; capable of leading through ambiguity and working independently with minimal oversight.
Detail-oriented yet able to see the bigger picture and align work to strategic goals.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems, Policy, or a related field is required.
Professional certifications in business analysis, Agile, or project management are considered strong assets.
Summary
If you are interested in the Senior Business Analyst role in Toronto, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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