Position Details:

Title: Technical Business Analyst Capital Markets

Location: Toronto, ON- Hybrid – 4x/week onsite (Monday to Thursday)

Duration: 6+ Months

Compensation: $80-$90/hour

Interview Process: 2 Rounds

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering:

• Engage with trading desks, risk, treasury, operations, and collateral teams to capture and analyze business needs.
• Translate requirements into clear functional specifications, process flows, and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Partner with the Product Owner to refine and prioritize the backlog in line with strategic objectives.

Collateral Management Focus:

• Evaluate and improve workflows around collateral management, and intraday collateral movement.
• Support delivery of solutions that strengthen efficiency, transparency, and compliance in collateral processes.

Data Analysis & Product Review:

• Perform data analysis to validate requirements, identify trends, and ensure data integrity across trading and collateral domains.
• Understands, review and assess data products, reports, and pipelines to ensure accuracy, usability, and alignment with business needs.
• Collaborate with data engineering and data governance teams to address quality issues and support decision-making.

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Facilitate agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement).
• Track progress, remove blockers, and promote agile best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement within the team.

Stakeholder Management & Delivery:

• Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams.
• Ensure timely delivery of features and initiatives, highlighting risks and dependencies.
• Communicate status updates and findings clearly to senior management and stakeholders.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Data, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in capital markets, with a solid understanding of the trade lifecycle.
• Knowledge of collateral management processes (margining, optimization, settlements).
• Strong data analysis skills, including ability to query, validate, and interpret datasets.
• Experience reviewing and working with data products, reports, and pipelines.
• Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master in agile delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with trade capture systems, risk engines, and collateral platforms is an advantage.
• Agile certification (CSM, PSM) preferred.