Our financial services client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with Data Lifecycle & Records Management experience to join under an immediate contract to fiscal year end of 2027.
Senior Business Analyst
Contract Opportunity | Financial Services
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education
- Undergraduate degree required.
- Preference given to candidates with Business Analysis Accreditation.
Experience
- The candidate profile indicates 3–5 years of overall experience.
- The detailed role requirements specify a minimum of 8 years of progressive business-analysis experience, including at least 3 years supporting enterprise data/document migration, system implementation, or integration.
Preferred Background
- Senior business-analysis experience supporting complex enterprise system implementations involving data or document migration.
- Financial services, legal operations, or regulated-information experience is preferred.
SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
The Senior Business Analyst will lead diverse business, technology, and vendor stakeholders through the end-to-end business analysis lifecycle for a legal document-management implementation.
The successful candidate will be responsible for gathering and documenting business, functional, non-functional, data, and migration requirements; source-to-target mapping; requirements traceability; and migration/testing readiness.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Requirements Gathering & Stakeholder Management
- Lead, analyze, document, and manage business requirements throughout the lifecycle of an initiative, ensuring alignment with business needs and strategic objectives.
- Gather and document business, data, metadata, migration, security/access, records-management, and testing requirements.
- Use various techniques to elicit, challenge, validate, and achieve consensus on requirements with stakeholders.
- Ensure impacted business processes and systems are analyzed, with acceptance criteria clearly demonstrating the changes required to meet business needs.
- Identify and document requirements-related dependencies and constraints by bridging communication between business and technology stakeholders.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and support test-script development and subsequent testing of solutions.
- Communicate testing issues and support their resolution.
- Data & Document Migration
- Create, validate, and maintain source-to-target data, metadata, and field mappings across source, document-management, and matter-management platforms.
- Identify unresolved fields and obtain decisions from the appropriate business owners.
- Translate future-state migration processes and control dependencies into clear requirements, decision records, acceptance criteria, and testable outcomes.
- Lead business analysis for data/document migration planning, including source profiling, eligibility rules, migration scope, work packages, sequencing, dependencies, and business readiness.
- Support migration dry runs and testing by defining representative data, expected outcomes, reconciliation controls, exception scenarios, duplicate/delta behaviour, and evidence requirements.
- Testing & Requirements Traceability
- Own and maintain requirements traceability from approved requirements through solution design, test scenarios, test cases, defects, results, and business acceptance.
- Support application, migration, integration, System Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Ensure requirements are sufficiently detailed to support effective testing and business acceptance.
- Support the identification, documentation, and resolution of testing issues.
- Records Management, Security & Compliance
- Elicit and document role, group, workspace, and restricted-access requirements.
- Support validation of entitlement and inherited-security
