Montreal [Hybrid] IT Business Analyst

About the Company:

As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specializing in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Guided by our core values of closeness, teamwork, diversity, and excellence, our team of 1,000 expert consultants, representing 35 different nationalities, collaborates across 10 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto and Casablanca.

We are looking for an IT Business Analyst for one of our clients, an investment bank set in Montreal

Role Overview :

The candidate will be responsible for gathering the user requirements, Specifying the solutions to put in place, coordinating the test cases execution, contributing to execution when needed, contributing to change management by training the users when required and ensure that all developers understand well the business needs/requirements. The team is responsible for a migration of a large volume of data concerning credit risk.

Key responsibilities:

• The responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to :
• • Provide functional support to risk analysts and front officers on credit risk processes.
• • Gather requirements from business partners and manage them according to the priorities defined by the Product Owner.
• • Perform data analysis to support requirement gathering, solution definition, testing, and investigations.
• • Communicate findings effectively to users and management to facilitate appropriate solutions.
• • Collaborate with users and other Business Analysts to understand business needs and translate them into functional solutions.
• • Write functional specifications and document system and process workflows.
• • Ensure Agile and continuous delivery methodologies are followed.
• • Ensure features are properly tested and all required artifacts are produced.
• • Coordinate and execute testing phases across different environments and present results to users.
• • Collaborate closely with teams located in the US, France, and India.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

Must Have:

• • University degree in a relevant field.
• • At least one experience as a Business Analyst within a financial institution.
• • Comfortable acting as the main point of contact for business stakeholders and documenting business needs and priorities.
• • Strong willingness to learn and contribute solutions and ideas.
• • Curious mindset with the ability to understand business challenges and identify solutions.
• • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• • Ability to read and ideally perform minor updates to Python scripts.
• • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• • Strong organizational and communication skills.
• • Ability to provide and receive constructive feedback.
• • Knowledge of Investment Banking.
• • Strong technical documentation and structured business writing skills.
• • Good working knowledge of SQL.
• • Ability to write queries involving multiple table joins for data analysis and testing.
• • Ability to read stored procedures during investigations.
• • Experience with Power BI.
• • Familiarity with data integration concepts including APIs, databases, ETL processes, and file-based integrations.
• • Experience with Python scripting for automation, data manipulation, and troubleshooting.
• • Ability to develop and maintain scripts that support business analysis and operational efficiency.
• • Experience working in Unix/Linux environments, including command-line troubleshooting and script execution

• Nice to have:

• • Experience with credit risk and counterparty risk concepts.
• • High-level understanding of capital markets products, including secured financing transactions and derivatives, or corporate lending.
• • Knowledge of US and/or international financial regulations.
• • Experience with ETL tools and processes.

Languages:

• English : Mandatory
• French : nice to have