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Senior Business Systems Analyst, GFT

Are you a talented, creative, and results-driven professional who thrives on delivering high-performing applications? Come join us!

Global Functions Technology (GFT) is part of RBC’s Technology and Operations division. GFT’s impact is far-reaching as we collaborate with partners from across the company to deliver innovative and transformative IT solutions. Our clients represent Risk, Finance, HR, CAO, Audit, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets, Personal and Commercial Banking and Wealth Management. We also lead the development of digital tools and platforms to enhance collaboration.

We believe that innovation should drive all that we do, in challenging assumptions and being big and bold with our ideas. We support our people in developing the technical, business and professional skills needed to be successful. You will work with partners from across the company, participate in networking events, and have access to a wide variety of supports including mentorship. You will work directly with leaders who believe in celebrating successes and sharing learnings with other teams to promote progress.

What is the opportunity?

This is an experienced business and data analyst role focused on supporting Enterprise Risk Technology Portfolio of Projects. Projects support and seek to modernize several application and systems primarily in the Enterprise Risk areas and in the areas of Emerging Risks and other Initiatives. Emerging Risks Initiatives include a Strategic Climate Risk implementation.

Climate Risk Implementation involves strategic sourcing of data from multiple data sources, building a framework for storing this data and making the data available to a data modeling environment from which various Climate risk metrics are calculated for Internal Management and Regulatory purposes.

You will handle business analysis aspects of IT delivery for Climate Risk with focus on delivering data and functional specifications documents, excel prototypes of data processing and providing walkthrough of the detailed business requirements to Dev and QA teams.

What will you do?

• Develop detailed understanding of current state including data feeds required for Enterprise Risk Engines and Reporting
• Understand changes required in current state to support the future strategic platform for Client platform
• Understand new Data sources for a range of (PCAF) Asset Classes – Residential Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Sovereign Debt, Project Finance, Listed Equity and Corporate Bonds, Business Loans and unlisted Equities
• Map and provide rules for the transformation of data from multiple sources into standardized data feeds required for the Climate Risk engines
• Work closely with business users to understand business requirements and demo system functionality
• Prepare high level and detailed requirements and specifications for the project in accordance with SDLC objectives
• Efficiently perform business analysis tasks including documentation of requirements, data analysis and UAT
• Work closely with development team, explain the requirements, validate the design assumptions for various business scenarios and testing
• Support QA/Business team in creation of UAT test cases against business requirements

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have

• Experience working on Risk Data projects (Agile methodologies), sourcing, standardization, and aggregation of risk in one of the functional risk areas such as Counterparty/Credit Risk
• 10+ years previous work experience as a Business or Data Analyst, or in a technical/functional Role
• Documentation skills – ability to succinctly articulate requirements, summarize data analysis and present to business users and development team
• Strong data analysis skills are required including analyzing large data sets in using SQL queries and other modelling tools
• Producing and using Data Catalogues, understanding data models and business process modeling
• Experience building enterprise scale applications involving large data volumes and computations

Nice to Have

• Good understanding of Climate Risk Initiatives, Environmental, Social and Governance investment policies & framework for financial institutions
• Professional risk/finance certifications (e.g. FRM, PRM, CFA)
• Use of Python, Anaconda, Pandas, Jupyter and support of Developers working with a technology stack including Linux, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, and other big data technologies
• Understanding of financial Instruments including several types of Fixed Income and Equity Instruments and their valuation; Exposure to Banking Loan Book and other products

What’s in it for you?  

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• 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
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

Job Skills

Business Appraisals, Business Process Modeling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis, Resource Management, Team Management