Business Analyst, Financial Management and Reporting (FMR)

The Opportunity

As a Business Analyst, you are passionate about business analysis, technology solutions, and agile product delivery practices. You thrive in environments where business, technology, data and AI capabilities intersect to deliver measurable value to Financial Management & Reporting business partners.

You will play a key role across the full product lifecycle — from discovery and requirements through engineering solutions, test validation, and continuous improvement. Beyond traditional business analysis, you bring strong understanding of modern engineering practices, AI-enabled solutions, automation, and testing excellence.

Who you will work with

You will be part of the Financial Management and Reporting (FMR) product team within the Corporate Business Technology Department.  In this dynamic role, teamwork will be the key to your success as you work collaboratively within a cross functional team such as Product Owner, Product Engineers, QAs and vendor consultants. You will be supporting and enabling our Financial Management & Reporting (FMR), Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Business partners on a wide range of business capabilities such as General ledger, account payable, reconciliation, reporting, financial planning, forecasting and budgeting as well as internal controls.

What you will do

• Partner with business stakeholders to elicit requirements and clarify objectives

• Produce high-quality analysis artifacts including functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, current/future state processes, data flows, and AI/automation opportunity assessments

• Identify and evaluate viable solution options; facilitate selection of optimal approaches

• Collaborate with internal product engineers and external vendor consultants to ensure solutions align with business intent and deliver measurable value

• Maintain end-to-end requirement traceability

• Lead and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT): define strategy, plan cycles, review test cases, support UAT execution, and obtain sign-off

• Work closely with QA to develop effective test plans and ensure accurate validation of requirements

What you will need

• University degree or equivalent experience (Business/Finance, accounting, Computer Science, Engineering)

• CPA would be considered as a strong asset

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in business analysis or Corporate Finance & Financial Planning areas, preferably from the Finance industry

• Good knowledge of General Ledger, Corporate Finance, Account Payment, Internal Control, Financial Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting.

• Experience and skills in data modelling, data analytics tools such as SQL and data querying

• Familiarity with AI capabilities such as generative AI user cases in Finance, agentic automation and intelligent data processing.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

• Ability to prioritize, coordinate and complete tasks to meet deadlines

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment, collaborating effectively with business, delivery and technology partners

• Experience in working with vendor and managing vendor expectations.

• Good understanding of techniques and tools pertaining to the planning, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of technology solutions

• Robust understanding of agile delivery methodologies

• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with multiple levels of clients, team and partners.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience with the following technologies is an asset: Infor Financials & Supply Management system or other General Ledger systems. Anaplan, Snowflake, Workiva, Microsoft PowerBI.

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What we’re offering

• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development

• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage

• Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan

• The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program

• A flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working

• Competitive time off

• Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year

• Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring.  We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves.  To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.

How to apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today! You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application.

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