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Business Systems Analyst

Winnipeg Permanent CA$80,000 - CA$100,000 per year View Job Description
This role bridges business, Data & Analytics, and IT teams by gathering requirements, documenting processes, supporting testing, and ensuring analytics solutions meet business needs. It also plays a key role in data governance, operational support, and continuous improvement to strengthen quality, traceability, and decision-making

This role uses AI-assisted tools to support initial screening. All assessments and decisions are made by a human reviewer.

  • Drive data governance and analytics improvements across the organization.
  • Partner with business and technology teams to deliver impactful solutions.

About Our Client

Canadian manufacturing organization

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Gather, analyze, validate, and document business, functional, and system requirements for Data & Analytics initiatives.
  • Create System Requirements Documents, wireframes, SOPs, process flows, governance trackers, test cases, UAT documentation, and supporting artefacts.
  • Support JIRA ticket triage, including request review, clarification, categorization, prioritization, assignment, follow-up, and status tracking.
  • Develop and execute functional test cases and UAT scripts for dashboards, reports, data processes, and analytics solutions.
  • Validate delivered solutions against documented requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria, and reporting expectations.
  • Document defects, coordinate fixes, support retesting, and prepare UAT summary reports.
  • Support Data & Analytics governance processes, including data promotion, fixes, reporting governance, post-deployment validation, backup and recovery, and operational handoffs.
  • Maintain governance logs, decision records, action trackers, issue logs, process inventories, and supporting artefacts.
  • Support dashboard lifecycle activities, including requirements documentation, functional validation, enhancement tracking, issue resolution, and operational handoff.
  • Work closely with business users, SMEs, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture, and other stakeholders.
  • Identify process gaps and recommend improvements to strengthen governance, traceability, quality, and operational effectiveness.



Qualifications

  • Degree or diploma in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience as a Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, System Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Governance Analyst, or similar role.
  • Strong experience documenting requirements, processes, workflows, SOPs, test cases, UAT results, and governance artefacts.
  • Experience with JIRA or similar ticketing/work management tools.
  • Experience supporting functional testing, UAT, defect tracking, retesting, and stakeholder sign-off.
  • Experience with reporting, dashboards, Power BI, or business intelligence solutions.
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, Visio, Teams, and SharePoint.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment with multiple priorities and cross-functional stakeholders.



Preferred Experience

  • Experience in Data & Analytics, or Data Governance environments.
  • Experience with Power BI dashboard testing, documentation, enhancement tracking, or support.
  • Familiarity with ERP platforms.



Scope ClarificationThis role is responsible for functional testing and UAT validation, but it is not intended to replace technical QA, automated testing, performance testing, security testing, code-level testing, or engineering-level validation responsibilities.MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class otherwise protected under applicable human rights legislation. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled and all other qualified applicants

The Successful Applicant

The ideal candidate is organized, proactive, detail-oriented, collaborative, and strong in documentation. They are comfortable working with both business and technical teams, able to clarify ambiguity, and capable of helping establish structure in an evolving Data & Analytics environment.

They should be able to translate business needs into clear requirements, validate delivered solutions through functional testing, support governance processes, and maintain accurate documentation that enables traceability, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.

What's on Offer

  • High visibility and influence - You'll help shape data governance, reporting standards, and analytics processes across the organization.
  • Variety of work - The role combines business analysis, testing, governance, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Cross-functional exposure - You'll work closely with business leaders, Data & Analytics teams, IT, Enterprise Architecture, and governance groups.
  • Career growth in a growing field - Gain hands-on experience in Data & Analytics Governance, an increasingly important discipline for organizations
  • Opportunity to drive improvements - The role encourages identifying process gaps and implementing better ways of working.



Contact
Nicole Hua
Quote job ref
JN-072026-7060124

Job summary

Sector
Information Technology
Sub Sector
IT Business Analysis
Industry
Industrial / Manufacturing
Location
Winnipeg
Job Type:
Permanent
Consultant name
Nicole Hua
Job Reference
JN-072026-7060124