SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYSIS MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION

When financial institutions operate across jurisdictions governed by overlapping regulatory regimes - EMIR, MIFID II, CFTC, or SFTR - the cost of misaligned requirements reaches far beyond a failed audit. Senior Business Analysis Managers in this sector occupy a space where the precision of functional specifications and the speed of regulatory change rarely move in the same direction. This role owns the translation layer between the compliance obligations of Global Banking and Markets functions and the technology programs built to satisfy them - accountable not just for eliciting requirements, but for maintaining their traceability across a portfolio of in-flight and in-production systems. It operates at senior management level, leading analyst teams and engaging directly with Front-Line Units, Control Functions, and executive stakeholders.

The mandate of the Senior Business Analysis Manager is to govern requirements integrity across complex financial technology programs, ensuring that regulatory obligations, business process changes, and system deliverables remain in alignment from scoping through post-production support. Working across Finance, Operations, Technology, and compliance functions, and frequently reporting to a Global Director or Director of Finance, the role carries accountability for team performance, BA methodology standards, and the business case rigor that shapes how the institution allocates its technology investment.

Career Impact: Owning regulatory traceability across instruments like SFTR or CAT positions a Senior Business Analysis Manager as a subject matter authority in Global Banking and Markets compliance, a credential that travels across tier-one institutions.

Business Impact: When requirement traceability breaks down across a global regulatory reporting portfolio, restatements, audit findings, and enforcement exposure follow - this role's work is the primary defense against that outcome.

Growth Opportunity: Consistent delivery of large-scale Finance technology transformation programs creates a direct path toward VP-level business relationship management or a Chief of Staff function within a global bank's technology organization.

• Lead requirements elicitation across Finance, Operations, and Compliance stakeholders using interviews, workshops, use-case modeling, and process mapping to capture both business and regulatory needs.
• Define and maintain Regulatory Requirement Traceability across applicable obligations including EMIR, MIFID, CFTC, and SFTR, linking each requirement to its institutional interpretation and data implementation.
• Govern business analysis standards, documentation templates, and version control procedures to ensure consistency across concurrent programs and global delivery teams.
• Manage a team of business and data analysts, including prioritization of workload, performance development, and escalation resolution across onshore and offshore functions.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution designers, and development teams to translate complex business requirements into functional specifications, process flows, and data mappings suitable for technical implementation.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing with business stakeholders, securing formal sign-off before production transitions and managing any post-deployment defects or scope gaps.
• Develop business case justifications and cost-benefit analyses to support IT investment decisions aligned with Finance or GBAM strategic objectives.
• Monitor team KPIs and program health, producing executive-level reporting on status, risks, and regulatory remediation progress for senior leadership and audit partners.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8 or more years of business analysis or technology implementation experience in financial services, with demonstrated delivery in a regulatory or compliance-driven environment.
• Subject matter knowledge in at least one global regulatory reporting regime such as EMIR, MIFID II, CFTC reporting, SFTR, or equivalent capital markets compliance frameworks.
• Proven experience eliciting, documenting, and managing complex business and functional requirements across multi-system, multi-stakeholder programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop analyst teams, including cross-border or onshore-offshore delivery models.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present requirement rationale and program status to C-suite and senior executive audiences.
• Experience producing SDLC artefacts including business requirements documents, functional specifications, process flows, data mappings, and traceability matrices.
• Familiarity with agile delivery methodologies, including backlog management, user story authoring, and sprint-based requirements grooming.

• Advanced degree (MBA, Master's in Finance, or Computer Science) or a professional designation such as CBAP or PMP.
• Deep domain knowledge across Global Banking and Markets data domains, including Consumer, GWIM, or Control Functions data structures.
• Experience with Finance technology transformation programs spanning general ledger, regulatory capital, or stress testing platforms.
• Exposure to enterprise data governance practices including data taxonomy definition, data cataloguing, and cross-platform lineage documentation.

• Regulatory traceability coverage rate, measuring the percentage of in-scope regulations with documented requirement-to-implementation linkage.
• User acceptance testing sign-off rate per release cycle, tracking the proportion of deliverables achieving first-pass business approval.
• Requirements defect rate post-deployment, reflecting how often production incidents trace back to specification gaps or misaligned requirements.
• Team KPI attainment percentage, measuring the analyst team's performance against established delivery and quality targets each quarter.
• Business case approval rate, indicating how frequently IT investment proposals authored by this role receive senior leadership endorsement.
• Time-to-traceability for newly enacted regulations, measuring how quickly emerging obligations such as amended CFTC rules are mapped to institutional data requirements.
• Typical tools: Requirements management platforms (commonly Jira, Confluence); process modeling (commonly Visio, Lucidchart); BI reporting (commonly Power BI, TM1).

• Base Salary Range: $145,000 to $185,000 annually, depending on seniority and institution size
• Bonus: Annual performance bonus, typically 15% to 30% of base in financial services
• Equity: Restricted stock units common at bulge-bracket and large regional banks
• Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• PTO: 18 to 25 days annually, plus federal holidays
• Common Perks: Tuition reimbursement, professional certification sponsorship, hybrid or flexible work arrangements

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Background check completion, including verification of employment history and, where applicable, credit history consistent with financial services regulatory requirements, is a condition of employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process should notify the recruiting team at any stage. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

The Senior Business Analysis Manager owns the full project lifecycle across Operations, Finance, and Technology, eliciting requirements through workshops, interviews, and workflow analysis to translate complex stakeholder needs into actionable business and technical deliverables. Working closely with senior management and cross-functional counterparts, this role shapes project reporting, process design, and program coordination to optimize outcomes across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Operations, Middle Office, Finance, Technology, and Senior Management to build business requirements, procedures, and processes, including project plan development, resource management, and process mapping.
• Conduct data analysis, data collection, and synthesis to translate findings into empirical solutions that optimize project reporting.
• Work with business partners to design, introduce, or re-engineer existing processes and business applications.
• Conduct project planning and analysis, including creating detailed project plans, documenting business requirements, and drafting business and technical data flows.
• Facilitate project sessions, create materials for presentation, and provide reporting and metrics as required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5 to 10 years of project management and business analysis experience.
• End-to-end project management experience, including scoping, business case development, implementation, and change management.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent analytical and logical thinking skills to understand and analyze complex business processes.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and interpersonal skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to elicit business requirements from diverse stakeholder groups and resolve project-related issues.

Embedded within the analytics and insights organization, the Senior Business Analysis Manager develops a high-performing team of analysts by identifying resourcing needs, resolving bottlenecks, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Working closely with leadership and cross-functional partners, this role connects daily analytical work to strategic roadmaps and proposes process changes that advance data, analytics, and insight environments to meet organizational goals.

Core Functions

• Use industry knowledge to bring fresh perspectives on how to solve business challenges with analytical methods.
• Communicate with the project team, leadership, and partners to connect daily tasks to organizational goals and support the vision and roadmap.
• Organize and keep the team focused, address conflicts or bottlenecks, and establish a mindset for continuous improvement.
• Propose improvements, new concepts, and process changes to improve the current data, analytics, and insight environments.
• Grow an effective team by identifying resourcing needs and fostering a work environment that enables employees to reach their potential.
• Monitor team performance to identify risks, opportunities, and budget adherence.
• Build a team culture that breaks down barriers.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience required.
• Minimum 8 years of project management or team leadership experience.
• Experience in different project management methodologies, preferably Scrum Master Certified.
• Established change management background with a focus on strategic vision and process improvement.
• Analytical ability to structure problems and evaluate alternative solutions using data.
• Proficiency with KPI dashboards and data-driven storytelling using appropriate visualizations.
• Effective communication, collaboration, and delegation skills across all levels of the organization.

Reporting to senior analytics leadership, the Senior Business Analysis Manager leads the delivery of eCommerce Analytics and BI solutions from requirements collection through technical implementation, designing dashboards that present data in actionable formats to support fact-based decision-making. Partnering with end users and a dedicated development team, this role builds on expertise in SAP platforms and Google Cloud to generate customer insights that expand reach, increase engagement, and drive sales.

Primary Duties

• Lead the delivery of analytics services to stakeholders to enable fact-based decisions.
• Contribute to the generation of insights to understand customers, expand reach, increase engagement, and drive sales.
• Take leadership of eCommerce Analytics and BI solutions from requirements collection through technical implementation.
• Design eCommerce dashboards based on end-user specifications and manage the team responsible for their development and maintenance.
• Introduce dashboards that present data in an actionable format to directly support decision-making.

Skills & Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant technical field such as mathematics, physics, engineering, or econometrics.
• 5 or more years of experience in an Advanced Analytics role.
• Experience in e-commerce domains including customer relationship, merchandising, and performance marketing.
• Solid understanding of data warehouses, ELT processes, and BI capabilities.
• Experience with SAP platforms (SAP BW, DWC, SAC) and Google Cloud Platform tools preferred.
• Experience managing, coaching, and counseling junior and senior team members on tools and techniques.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with fluency in English.

Sitting at the intersection of business operations and technology implementation, the Senior Business Analysis Manager facilitates relationships between clients and internal teams to ensure accurate, timely project delivery while overseeing the redesign of Underwriting and operational processes, including automation of submission and endorsement workflows. Operating across compliance reviews, risk management, and continuous improvement initiatives, this role maintains full accountability for project success and delivers executive-level transparency on platform programs.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate business and operational relationships between clients and internal teams to ensure accurate and timely product and project delivery.
• Ensure overall project success by maintaining accountability for all aspects of the project and providing full transparency.
• Provide high-level executive reports and detailed updates continuously for platform programs.
• Assist with defining, communicating, and enforcing project processes such as change management, risk management, and documentation version control.
• Facilitate business and compliance reviews of new product offerings and status meetings.
• Oversee the redesign of Underwriting and support operational processes, including automating submission, quote, bind, issue, and endorsement workflows.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve compliance and user experience.
• Analyze workflow, process, and complex data to make decisions that impact business outcomes.

Requirements

• 3 to 7 years of experience in Commercial Lines Insurance or Information Technology implementing enterprise IT systems and solutions.
• Six Sigma or other relevant certification desirable.
• Knowledge of current technology platforms.
• Experience working in a matrix environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication skills, self-confident, high sense of responsibility, and problem-solving ability.

A key member of the Finance technology leadership team, the Senior Business Analysis Manager leads a group of business analysts to deliver Finance solutions, translating stakeholder needs into functional requirements, process flows, and traceability matrices while overseeing enforcement of business analysis standards and quality procedures. Collaborating across Finance, IT, and senior leadership, this role builds cost-benefit analyses and business case justifications that align large-scale technology transformation programs with corporate goals around revenue generation, cost management, and compliance.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee elicitation of business requirements for Finance technology projects and in-production systems.
• Lead a team of business analysts, facilitating prioritization, resource management, and team member development, including performance management and training.
• Lead requirements definition for Finance solutions by translating stakeholder needs into functional requirements, process flows, data flows, and traceability matrices.
• Oversee enforcement of business analysis processes, departmental standards, and quality procedures for IT deliveries.
• Identify and implement system automation opportunities to enhance process efficiency, improve data quality, and reduce manual errors.
• Plan and facilitate user acceptance testing to obtain stakeholder sign-off before production deployment.
• Develop business case justifications and cost-benefit analyses to direct IT investments aligned with Finance business strategy.

Experience & Qualifications

• 15 or more years of experience in financial systems implementation, including 10 or more years in the Insurance industry with a Finance focus.
• Accounting or Finance Operations experience required.
• Experience successfully managing large-scale Finance technology transformation programs and system implementations.
• Experience building efficient operating models to support Finance technology needs in a growing organization.
• Ability to manage a global team across multiple simultaneous projects with aggressive deadlines.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Ability to become a trusted advisor to finance leadership.

Standardizing requirements documentation and supporting delivery across eCommerce, Accounting, Supply Chain, and Sales depends on the Senior Business Analysis Manager, who mentors a team of business analysts, consults stakeholders to translate business needs into documented requirements, and acts as liaison between business and software development teams. Based within a goal-oriented, accountability-driven environment, this role builds specifications, diagrams, and flowcharts to deliver continuous process improvements across enterprise ERP, CRM, and data warehouse platforms.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Manage a team of business analysts through mentoring and continuous improvement of requirements and documentation.
• Consult stakeholders to elicit requirements and translate business needs into documented business requirements.
• Act as liaison between business stakeholders and the software development team.
• Analyze existing business processes for inefficiencies and recommend system improvements aligned to business goals.
• Lead review sessions of business requirements with technical and business teams to resolve open questions and gaps.
• Manage across teams to support the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of solutions.
• Develop specifications, diagrams, flowcharts, and data evaluations to support solution delivery and vendor management.

Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7 or more years of Business Analyst experience across functional areas including finance, accounting, supply chain, sales, and marketing.
• 3 or more years managing individual team members through hands-on training and mentoring.
• Professional Business Analyst certification or equivalent preferred.
• Diverse experience in enterprise systems, including eCommerce, ERP, CRM, Warehouse Management, and data warehouse platforms.
• Knowledge of integrations between enterprise systems and experience with business readiness and change management.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to make decisions, solve problems, escalate risks, and maintain accountability.

As the Senior Business Analysis Manager, this role leads a global team of business and data analysts executing the Regulatory Requirement Traceability roadmap across regulations including EMIR, MIFID, TRACE, CAT, CFTC, and SFTR, while educating senior executives on regulatory obligations and aligning traceability strategy with enterprise policy. The global banking and markets domain relies on this work to maintain transparency through KPI measurement, remediation leadership, and sustained compliance across Front-Line Units, Control Functions, and Audit teams.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Plan and manage the Regulatory Requirement Traceability program across the enterprise in partnership with Front-Line Units and Control Functions.
• Lead a global team of business and data analysts to execute the Regulatory Requirement Traceability roadmap and sustainability deliverables.
• Educate senior executives on regulatory obligations and support Technology and Operations in implementing regulatory reports.
• Establish strategy and roadmap to maintain Regulatory Requirements Traceability across global regulations, including EMIR, MIFID, TRACE, CAT, CFTC, and SFTR.
• Partner with enterprise architects to align traceability strategy with enterprise regulatory reporting policy and standards.
• Establish KPIs for the Regulatory Requirements Traceability team and provide transparency through measurement and management reporting.
• Lead remediation of issues in partnership with FLU and CF stakeholders and Audit and Compliance teams.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field highly desirable.
• 10 or more years of experience as a regulatory reporting business analyst lead or manager in a complex financial regulatory environment.
• Subject matter expertise in one or more regulations, including EMIR, MIFID, TRACE, CAT, CFTC, SFTR, Electronic Bluesheets, or QFC.
• Extensive experience in the Global Banking and Markets domain with strong understanding of trading instrument lifecycle.
• Strong domain knowledge across GBAM, Consumer, GWIM, and Control Functions data domains.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and organizational skills with demonstrated ability to influence without authority.
• Resourceful, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to drive quality goals in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Senior Business Analysis Manager produces strategic and tactical sales compensation programs and reporting for the Global Product Division, managing a team of five analysts and overseeing end-to-end processes for incentive plan design, quota setting, and performance dashboards across Acute and Strategic Markets in the Americas. Success in the position means delivering accurate, insight-driven compensation models backed by thorough simulation, Business Intelligence tools including QLIK and Tableau, and advanced Excel capabilities that inform senior leadership decisions in the medical device industry.

Scope of Work

• Lead sales compensation strategic initiatives, plan designs, and processes with a focus on Acute and Strategic Markets in the Americas.
• Create customized Sales Incentive Models and Plan options to reflect complex market dynamics, backed by thorough analysis and simulation.
• Design and deliver annual quota plans, tracking, reporting, and the North American Sales Incentive plan rollout, including senior leader sign-off and system implementation.
• Design and deliver sales compensation reports and dashboards to generate insights on performance, including monthly club rankings and incentive promotional programs.
• Monitor sales compensation rankings and perform health checks to identify improvement opportunities and drive quality.
• Manage sales territory alignment, targeting processes, and ad hoc analytics, including customer segmentation and business performance updates.
• Manage team resources including coaching, professional development, training on field report and compensation tools, and vendor relationships.

Background & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree such as M.S. or M.B.A. preferred.
• 10 or more years of relevant experience in sales, sales compensation, or sales operations.
• People management experience required, with prior medical device or healthcare industry experience strongly desired.
• Subject matter expertise in sales compensation structures, elements, and measurements, including complex program modeling and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of medical device or healthcare-related industries.
• Strong knowledge of Business Intelligence tools such as QLIK, Power BI, MicroStrategy, and Tableau.
• Experience in SAP and Anaplan preferred.
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint with strong analytical ability to identify trends and inform strategy.

The Senior Business Analysis Manager produces measurable growth for sellers and platform partners by recruiting and leading a team of Search Performance Managers, establishing KPIs, and overseeing optimization of Sponsored Products campaigns through bid adjustments, keyword harvesting, and targeting changes. Working closely with cross-functional teams, platform partners, and senior seller relationships, this role advances advertising performance by defining SLA frameworks, exploring automation solutions, and translating campaign analytics into actionable insights.

What You'll Do

• Recruit, develop, mentor, and inspire a team of Search Performance Managers.
• Establish team goals and KPIs and motivate the team to execute, measure progress, and share results.
• Monitor performance of Sponsored Products and drive activities to improve ROI through bid adjustments, targeting changes, and keyword harvesting.
• Analyze search campaign performance against seller KPIs and report on trends and insights to key stakeholders.
• Define performance and optimization processes, SLAs, and best practices, and maintain a knowledge base of workflows, SOPs, and case studies.
• Explore automation solutions to minimize turnaround time for seller optimization tactics.
• Own senior seller relationships and work with cross-functional teams and platform partners to identify new growth opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or a related field required.
• PMP and Six Sigma certifications preferred.
• 3 or more years of experience in data analytics, project management, or a related field, or 5 or more years without a degree.
• Extensive experience managing performance campaigns across multiple paid search platforms with strong knowledge of keyword bidding strategies and budget management.
• Experience with API and Self-Serve platforms a plus.
• Experience working with financial data and budgets.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and familiarity with statistical programming languages.
• Strong business communication and presentation skills with proven ability to manage teams, nurture seller relationships, and collaborate across cross-functional groups.

Embedded within the Cross Products Technology organization of a major global bank's Institutional Clients Group, the Senior Business Analysis Manager develops innovative technology solutions by partnering with business and development teams to identify underlying needs, design REST API-informed architectures, and translate them into clear business and design requirements. Working closely with internal and external clients across technology, product, and business teams, this role refines standards, negotiates priorities, and assesses risk with consideration for regulatory compliance and firm reputation across all phases of development.

Key Deliverables

• Provide direction and technical leadership on complex, high-impact projects across all phases of development and implementation, ensuring essential procedures are followed.
• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of information in complicated situations and contribute to formulation of standards and strategies across functional areas.
• Partner with business and development teams to identify underlying business needs, design technology solutions, and translate them into clear business and design requirements.
• Perform business process design and improvement, primary and secondary research gathering, and customer journey mapping.
• Produce detailed use cases and documentation, including diagrams, to guide design, and collaborate with architects to define solutions.
• Negotiate and establish priorities with business and development managers and engage with internal and external clients during feedback sessions.
• Assess risk in business decisions with consideration for firm reputation, regulatory compliance, and ethical conduct, and escalate control issues transparently.

Technical Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, master's degree preferred.
• 6 to 10 years of relevant experience in a business analysis or technology role within a major financial institution.
• Experience delivering products using agile development methodology, working directly with developers and technical teams.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, API Management, and related technology architecture, with coding experience a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and document complex business processes and system flows using SDLC artefacts.
• Proficiency in Atlassian Suite including JIRA and Confluence, and Microsoft applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Project.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence across organizational lines.

Reporting to enterprise analytics leadership, the Senior Business Analysis Manager leads data pipeline optimization and development of big data applications that deliver reporting, predictive analytics, and actionable insights across the Retail Lottery Division, including oversight of ETL automation and data quality assurance for new lottery product integrations. Partnering with external vendors and senior leaders, this role advances analytics capabilities by managing cross-functional team talent and communicating statistical modeling outcomes to non-technical audiences.

Delivery Expectations

• Collaborate with Lottery stakeholders to understand business challenges and propose analytics-based solutions in coordination with Enterprise Analytics teams.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to continuously improve analytics services and evolve analytics capabilities across the Retail Lottery Division.
• Design and develop big data applications to implement reporting and predictive analytics that derive insights from core datasets.
• Lead data quality testing and assurance for new lottery product launch data integrations into source systems and the Data Lake environment.
• Oversee development of reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc queries to drive actionable insights, including enterprise-level reporting.
• Manage execution and optimization of data pipelines to automate ETL processes and increase delivery speed for analytical outputs.
• Manage external vendor relationships for acquisition of data sets and technical software solutions, and develop analytics talent within the team.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• University degree in business, statistics, computer science, economics, finance, or mathematics required.
• 5 or more years of experience in forecasting, reporting, financial analysis, data mining, predictive modeling, and market research, with 3 to 5 years in an analytics leadership role.
• Experience working with Hadoop and related big data technologies, including data wrangling, cleansing, and automation of disparate data sources.
• Knowledge of platforms and languages including Power BI, Alteryx, SQL, Hue, Hadoop, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, Python, Excel, and ArcGIS.
• Experience in building, updating, and explaining analytical models and business insights to senior management.
• Data translation capabilities to explain statistical modeling to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and grow a team with constructive coaching and a collaborative working style.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Sitting at the intersection of regulatory finance and strategic transformation, the Senior Business Analysis Manager oversees all stress testing programs and recovery and resolution planning, coordinating timetables, running Challenge meetings, and owning full financial management for balance sheet and P&L projections across global and regional stakeholders. Operating across Finance, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting teams, this role leads commercial projects focused on performance, profitability, and the Finance digitization agenda while maintaining governance requirements and simplifying projection processes.

Areas of Ownership

• Work with global and regional stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Regulatory Reporting, and Business teams to establish exact requirements and deliverables.
• Manage calendar and timetable for all stress testing programs and coordinate project management tasks.
• Run Checkpoint Review and Challenge meetings for balance sheet and P&L projections and ensure regions follow GCMB guidance.
• Identify ways to simplify, centralize, and automate projections and engage Product Finance stakeholders for continuous improvement.
• Serve as main point of contact for stakeholder queries and maintain oversight of governance requirements including systems, packs, documentation, and sign-offs.
• Own full financial management for all stress testing, recovery and resolution planning, and management actions.
• Lead commercial projects of strategic nature focused on performance, profitability, efficiency, and the Finance transformation and digitization agenda.

Position Requirements

• Accountancy, Finance, or Economics qualification preferred.
• Experience managing large processes or projects and direct planning activities, preferably within a stress testing or regulatory finance environment.
• Strong technical and commercial understanding of financial drivers including balance sheet and P&L dynamics.
• Proficiency in TM1, MS Office, and Qlik preferred.
• Proven leadership and relationship management skills across all organizational levels, including senior management.
• Sound judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities with strong influencing and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent communication, planning, and organizational skills with an inquisitive mindset focused on process improvement and reducing duplication.

A key member of the Ventura Foods Canada leadership team, the Senior Business Analysis Manager oversees direct reports including the Commercial Manager and Senior Finance Operations Analyst while generating customer P&Ls, trade margin analyses, and plant financial reporting to advance commercial sales and marketing performance. Collaborating with FP&A, executive teams, and manufacturing operations, this role assesses multi-year business strategies, quantifies new product opportunities, and ensures GAAP compliance across Sales, Marketing, and Distribution functions.

Job Functions

• Supervise and develop direct reports including Commercial Manager, Senior Finance Operations Analyst, and Inventory Analyst.
• Assess and support execution of annual and 3- to 5-year business strategies, quantify opportunities, measure progress against goals, and create the annual operating plan.
• Assess and quantify new business, product, and productivity opportunities, including CapEx impact on Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, and Distribution functions.
• Build partnerships with commercial and executive teams to drive profitable growth and evaluate customer and promotional strategies.
• Work with FP&A to analyze business results through P&L generation, price and mix and volume earnings variations, and ad hoc analyses.
• Evaluate trade margins, new business opportunities, and pricing analytics including margin expansion and sensitivity analysis.
• Manage all financial reporting for manufacturing facilities including hourly payroll, inventory variances, plant forecasts, fixed asset schedules, and GAAP compliance.

Education & Experience

• Post-secondary degree required, MBA an asset.
• CPA, CMA, or CGA designation required.
• 5 to 7 years of progressive analysis experience, preferably in a foodservice manufacturing environment.
• Strong financial and general accounting knowledge, including standard costing and GAAP compliance.
• Experience working with Macola, JDE, Oracle Financials, and business intelligence systems preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, financial modeling, and data management.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational, and time management skills.

Sustained accuracy across data and reporting platforms for new and existing product initiatives depends on the Senior Business Analysis Manager, who defines data strategy in partnership with architects, acts as data owner across the end-to-end business and data journey, and produces functional specifications and solution design documents across a complex IT environment spanning onshore and offshore teams in the UK and India. Serving as proxy customer with development teams and primary liaison to third-party partners, this role oversees requirements gathering, impact analysis, and service-oriented solution delivery within the Investment Management and Investment Banking domain.

Ownership Areas

• Analyze complex business issues, evaluate technical implications of business requirements, and produce data mappings between data and reporting platforms.
• Act as data owner, understanding the end-to-end journey from business and data perspectives and analyzing the impact of upstream changes on downstream platforms.
• Define the scope of business requirements, decide the approach, produce specifications, and drive solution discussions and solution design documents.
• Drive analysis efforts from start to end, obtaining stakeholder approvals and tracking deliverables across multiple system groups.
• Coordinate functionality across multiple system projects, delivering common, reusable service-oriented patterns, and act as proxy customer with development teams.
• Coordinate with onshore and offshore business analysts and development teams in the UK and India, and interact with third-party partners and suppliers.
• Lead process improvement initiatives, contribute to BA forums, and maintain awareness of emerging industry standards in the Business Analysis domain.

Technical Qualifications

• B.Tech, B.E., or MBA preferred.
• 10 to 12 years of IT experience in the Investment Management or Investment Banking domain, with at least 8 years as a Business Analyst.
• Experience in business process re-engineering, user requirement gathering, gap analysis, data taxonomy definition, and data modeling.
• Experience producing functional specification documents and solution design specifications in collaboration with architects and developers.
• Strong documentation skills for SDLC artefacts including SRA and SDS, with knowledge of Agile methodology and user story authoring.
• Working knowledge of database technologies such as Oracle, business modeling tools such as UML, and CASE tools such as EA or Rational Rose.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and thrive in a complex, rapidly changing environment.