Business Analyst

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you!
 

Job Description

The Business Analyst works collaboratively with the business and technology teams to gather and document detailed requirements and being responsible for the analysis stages for all the application projects. This role is based fully onsite at our Mississauga office location and reports to our Lead Business Analyst. The focus of this role is to:

• Support primarily the SharePoint ecosystem
• Requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Application Projects support
• Unit Testing and UAT activities
• Coach and mentor intermediate team members.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive compensation/pay package (Range – TBD)
• Dental/Vision/Medical benefits
• Life Insurance
• Health Spending Account
• Employee Support and Mental Wellness
• Competitive matched retirement savings program – RRSP
• Be part of a long standing and stable industry leader

WHEN YOU JOIN US YOU WILL BE;

Requirements Gathering and Analysis

• Work with the business owners, developers, architects, PMs, and other BAs to break down the designed solutions into detailed business requirements.
• Conduct workshops and meetings to gather requirements.
• Conduct process mapping
• Document business processes and rules from a user perspective and identify the gaps and be responsible for recommendation of process optimization.
• Own capturing the data flow mapping across various business and system processes and interpret the value offerings and validations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for new projects or enhancements to existing processes. Document current business processes using tools such as flowcharts or diagrams to identify all areas.
• Create and maintain documentation related to business requirements, process flows and system configurations.
• Own the creation and maintenance of Business Requirements Documents (BRD).
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to gather requirements, provide updates, and facilitate decision-making processes.
• Work closely with business and IT stakeholders. Understands the business requirements, application systems, limitations and constraints, company’s policies.

Sharepoint and other Applications Support

• Work with business and other IT stakeholders to define the company SharePoint roadmap and strategy
• Support the Modern Workplace project focusing on One Drive, Teams and SharePoint
• Own the migration from SharePoint On-prem to Online
• Training users in SharePoint On-prem and Online
• Own the SharePoint usage analysis
• Support business case development and presentation for steering meetings.
• Contribute to high-level technical solutions discussions.
• Support organization change management, training, and related document creation.
• Build and review test plans and ensure test strategies.
• Ensure test cases align to document business and solution requirements.
• Ensure SharePoint projects are aligned to business requirements.
• Provide end user support to defect, review and resolve incidents.
• Participate and monitor QA activities, SIT activities.
• Lead UAT sessions with stakeholders.

Coaching & Monitoring

• Collaborate closely with the other members of the Business Analysis team and ensure effective implementation of all Application projects to achieve all client’s objectives. Playing the role of the most senior business analyst position on the team.
• Keep project team informed of problems, issues, and resolutions, being the liaison between the Business Analysis team and business users.
• Provide Applications training to the business users and IT teams.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE;

• Minimum of 10 years of overall IT experience as a Business Analyst with focus on Enterprise Applications, Custom-applications and Cloud-applications.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in supporting SharePoint applications on Prem and Online.
• Desirable experience in modernization of technologies including One Drive and Teams
• Experience in administration of One Drive, Teams and Sharepoint.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with mindfulness and accuracy.
• Proficiency in business analysis tools and techniques, such as process mapping, data analysis, and requirement gathering.
• Experience with project management methodologies and tools.
• Experience with Concur and Workday would be an asset.
• Ability to develop and prepare technical specifications and documentation.
• Experience working with the manufacturing and/or building industries is desired.
• Excellent analytical, planning, and organizational skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate innovative ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Organizationally savvy, with situational and contextual intelligence of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics.
• Rapidly comprehends the functions and capabilities of modern technologies.

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Benefits of Employment: IKO recognizes that its success is due to the strength of its employees. A primary goal of IKO is to promote individual employee's sense of accomplishment and contribution so that employees enjoy their association with IKO. The Company invests in its employees so that they are the most knowledgeable in the industry, and undertakes great efforts to nurture loyalty to, and teamwork at, IKO. We are pleased to offer competitive compensation, health care, a progressive and challenging workplace and a commitment to teamwork and integrity.
 

Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment: IKO Industries Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. IKO Industries Ltd. encourages and welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.