Job Description
Depth & Scope:
- Leads Requirements Management/work packages for Tier 5 low to moderate risk and regulatory projects or initiatives and may contribute to Tier 3-4 projects
- Sound to advanced knowledge of business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project life-cycle
- Gain/acquire sound understanding of business and user interaction with technology throughout project delivery
- Work performed under minimal management guidance and supervision
- Identify and lead problem resolution
- Supports and may contribute to communication and change management activities
Education & Experience:
- Undergraduate degree
- 3+ years related experience
Customer Accountabilities:
- Leads a diverse range of stakeholders; communicates effectively by adapting style and technique to a diverse audience
- Analyzes impacts to customers, stakeholders, employees, process, technology solutions to achieve business results
- Understands and clarifies work packages of each assigned initiative/project inclusive of constraints (time, cost, people resources) and maintains a customer-centric approach
- Provides recommendations and direction based on the end to end customer experience when making decisions
- Leads and owns the project deliverables related to business requirements to meet the needs of the customer, employee, and business
- Assesses and ensures that customer and employee experience/stakeholder impacts are appropriately managed
- Engages appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage required outcomes of projects for the business
- Provides on-going communication to key stakeholders, including the project sponsor, business project owner, project/program/portfolio manager to ensure they are aware of significant changes which impact requirements delivery against the overall project
- Responds to inquiries and escalates concerns from stakeholders and partners at all levels in the organization
- Identifies and leads problem resolution to ensure customer needs are met
- Contributes to the application of change management best practices (e.g. stakeholder analysis, gap analysis, change planning, etc.)
- Collaborates with the project manager and business sponsor to identify and ensure required resources are assigned to the project for successful delivery of requirements
- Ensures timely notification and escalation of possible issues/problems while assessing options and recommendations for prompt resolution
Shareholder Accountabilities:
- Leads requirements management on project(s) which are based on complexity, size and budget as defined by the project governance levels
- Provides leadership/guidance and supports in defining the business need or problem statement based on strategic drivers and identifies potential solutions
- Identifies scope changes and completes analysis to determine impact to project benefits and risks
- Facilitates and follows a structured approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate, and manage business requirements with stakeholders by applying a variety of elicitation techniques to probe, challenge and understand requirements according to the requirements management discipline
- Identifies, documents and validates current state processes and works with the business and stakeholders to design the desired future state
- Establishes and maintains full requirements traceability and works with the business to prioritize requirements and scope changes to ensure business needs are met
- Collaborates with technology partners and provides recommendations to support development of: system requirements and design, testing plans, artifacts/deliverables to ensure business needs are met
- Ensures project issues and concerns are addressed for clear articulation of business requirements (eg. Business Systems Analyst)
- Proactively identifies and tracks requirements risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, constraints and anticipates and effectively manages risks related to requirements. Aligns decisions to TD’s risk appetite
- Develops mitigation plans or leads/contributes to the completion of necessary compliance/new process assessment templates
- Contributes to Quality Assurance activities by supporting the development of test scripts and testing of developed solutions, including communication of issues and resolution
- Adheres to Enterprise project governance controls to ensure projects meet all performance, quality and compliance standards and conforms to appropriate disciplines
- Contributes to the development of the project plan and high-level work breakout session (WBS), identifies and manages key risks and decisions
- Owns and completes relevant work packages through collaboration with multiple stakeholders to prepare for operational readiness, managing deadlines and adjusting to changing work priorities
- Takes ownership and communicates progress on work packages, including requirements management, in a concise and timely manner, escalating issues to project manager, partners and manager where appropriate
- Assesses project change requests and their impacts on requirements, checking for alignment to project benefits at all phases
- Develops efficient and effective solutions through analytical problem solving
- Supports implementation/post implementation activities as defined in the project plan
Employee/Team Accountabilities:
- Contributes to team development of skills and capability through mentorship of junior/peer Business Analysts by sharing knowledge and experiences, leveraging best practices
- Continuously enhances knowledge/expertise in business analysis to provide advice and guidance to business partners and project team regarding best practices
- Leads, motivates and develops relationships with the business, stakeholders, and technology partners to develop productive working relationships
- Engages, enables and leads stakeholders to agreement/consensus on the business requirements
- Prioritizes and manages work load and capacity to deliver on project milestone dates
- Participates in regular coaching and performance review sessions, employee surveys and action plans
- Owns development plan including activities related to training, relationship building and on-the-job experiences that continually enhance individual business analysis capabilities to achieve career goals
- Fosters a collaborative team environment by participating in team meetings and reward & recognition programs
- Supports, mentors and provides guidance to junior level Business Analysts and peers
- Contributes to a positive work environment by embracing diversity in the workplace and supporting and proudly representing TD in the community