Business Analyst

For more than 15 years, Talan has been advising companies, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in France and internationally. Present on four continents, Talan aims to achieve a turnover of 350 million euros for 3,500 consultants in 2021. The group puts innovation at the heart of its development and intervenes in areas linked to technological changes such as Big Data, IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

Talan Canada is growing and looking to strengthen its team with a Business Analyst for the Montreal office, who will be interested in working with clients from multiple industries.

• Define, consolidate and steer all production indicators (KSI, SLA, etc.);

• Coordinate major production operations like applicative releases, infrastructure changes and disaster recovery tests.

• Ensure the consistency of production practices and tools across the client's organisation and animate related communities of practices;

• Deploy and steer IT Risk Management processes, while respecting policies defined with the operational and cybersecurity risk departments

• Manage Transversal Production transformation projects.

The BA is asked to work on the Program Data Resiliency and lead the stream “DOCUMENT”.

We have defined 5 key deliverables that might evolve during the life of the client's project:

• Define Critical Data

• Consolidate the Critical Business Chain and provide an owner for each

• Backup strategy standard/procedure to be documented in line with the policy and/or new recommendation provided by Stream GOVERN.

• Application recovery assessment and recommendation

• Infrastructure recovery assessment and recommendation

• Coordinate with all the 3 other streams (GOVERN, RESPOND, EXERCISE/TEST) to meet acceptable documentation and fit the new initiative on current company's processes.

The foreseen list of key deliverables is:

• Critical Business processes consolidation document
• Critical Data cartography document
• Critical Business Chain consolidation document
• Ownership cartography document - for each critical chain and data
• Recovery analysis document for critical data
• List of recommendations to improve data resiliency for critical business processes

NB: this list might evolve during the life of the project, upon common agreement of both parties validated during project committees.

Required:

• At least 4 years' experience in banking or financial industries as Business Analyst.

• Ability to deliver process and flow documentation

• Experience organizing and leading meetings to collect information related to program

• Excellent interpersonal and rapport building skills, working across multiple stakeholders and functions

• Ability to deliver within the time constraints of the financial industry

• Must be a self-starter who is comfortable working in a very dynamic environment, with rapidly changing priorities.

• Rigorous, Dynamic, detail oriented, fast learning capacity and able to work in a high-pressure environment

• Fluent in English and French (nice to have)

• Good knowledge of banking environment (nice to have).

• Location: Montreal, ready to start within 2-3 weeks.