Bachelor’s Degree
4+ years of Business Analytic Experience
Experience with post M&A data integration within banking or financial institutions
Advanced MS Excel, PowerPoint, SQL
Experienced working with business side and technical team to gather requirements and translate those to technical requirements
Experience working with project stakeholders to validate requirements
Strong communication & organization skills
Plusses:
Advanced SAS
Experience supporting a Commercial Banking line of business
Experience supporting integration efforts after a merger or acquisition
- Liaises with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities and, recommends solutions to enable the achievement of organizational goals.
- Builds exceptional relationships with business partners and internal stakeholders. Analyzes data and creates documents and plans in service of informing, advising, or updating stakeholders.
- Ensures the requirements map to a real business need, are approved by all relevant stakeholders, and meet essential quality standards.
- Participates in reviews or inspections, in collaboration with the project team, to ensure the quality of work products.
- Works with project stakeholders to validate their requirements and analysis models via techniques such as reviews and walkthroughs.
- Ensures system specifications meet expectations/requirements, and negotiates solutions.
- Creates documentation to ensure the supportability of analyses.
- Maintains existing requirements to ensure that current-state needs are known.
- Develops and implements data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality.
- Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Filters and “cleans” data, and reviews computer reports, printouts and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems.
- Remains alert to new techniques for insights, analytics, and data visualization, and devises new ways of applying them.
- Interprets data, analyzes results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports.
- Recommends approaches to streamline and integrate technological processes in the organization to improve overall efficiency.
- Facilitates discussions and follows a structured approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate and manage requirements with stakeholders.
- Provides analytical support and insights.
- Identifies opportunities to strengthen business analysis capability, such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks across BMO.
- Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities & individual learning.