BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST

The Financial Planning Division within the City of Toronto provides timely, objective advice and information to Council and management staff of City divisions, agencies, boards and commissions, to ensure both the financial integrity of the Corporation, and the optimal balance between efficient, effective services levels, and levels of taxation and user fees.

Reporting to the Manager Financial Transformation, the Business Systems Analyst will support the Financial Planning Division’s Budget Tool Revitalization initiative. This initiative aimed to procure a new single cloud-based, enterprise-wide financial (budget) planning solution will replace two current systems used for the operating and 10-year capital budget and plan. The transition to the new planning solution is intended to facilitate a re-design of City budget processes to align with best practices, and strive for standardization across all City programs and agencies.

As a Business Systems Analyst, you will support the analysis and documentation of current business processes and provide advice on current processes re-engineering following the principles of standard best practices. As a key player in IT system configuration meetings you will provide a financial planning business perspective, support the development of functional specifications and documentation, and assess the best alternatives related to the implementation of the budget solution functionalities.

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Public Administration or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience.

• Considerable experience working on large-scale IT solutions projects.

• Considerable experience with business process reviews, development, documentation, and recommendations.

• Considerable experience facilitating sessions or workshops to identify current state and optimal processes, producing process models, use cases and documenting users, business, technical and transition requirements.

• Considerable knowledge and experience on enterprise-wide financial and budgeting systems. Experience in working with cloud-based systems would be an asset.

• Ability to learn a new system/process without guidance, by exploring and reading documentation.

• Ability to be creative and to generate innovation solutions to resolve business issues.

• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present and compose written documents appropriate for technical and non-technical audiences, at all organization levels.

• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships.

• Experience using a variety of software packages including MS Office (e.g. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), MS Visio, and project management software (e.g. MS Project).
  
  

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