What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Systems Analyst position at Scotiabank?
Requisition ID: 259770
Salary Range: -
Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Purpose
As a Business Systems Analyst on the IDH team, you will support the implementation and ongoing operations of a flagship strategic data platform. You will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and the technical delivery team, ensuring that investment data requirements are accurately captured, clearly documented, and effectively implemented within the Opus EDM platform.
What You'll Do
If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!
At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.
What's in it for you?
Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.
#Dallas
Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.
Scotiabank is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Salary Range: -
Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Purpose
As a Business Systems Analyst on the IDH team, you will support the implementation and ongoing operations of a flagship strategic data platform. You will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and the technical delivery team, ensuring that investment data requirements are accurately captured, clearly documented, and effectively implemented within the Opus EDM platform.
What You'll Do
- Gather, document, and translate business requirements into clear functional specifications for Opus EDM configuration, data sourcing workflows, and integration designs
- Analyze data quality issues across securities reference data, pricing, corporate actions, and related investment data domains; work with technical teams to identify root causes and resolution paths
- Support UAT and system testing activities, including test case creation, execution, and defect tracking and resolution
- Collaborate with data vendors and downstream application teams (Charles River, SimCorp, Eagle, BarraOne) to validate data flows and ensure alignment with business expectations
- Maintain business process documentation, data dictionaries, workflow specifications, and operational runbooks
- Participate in sprint ceremonies and contribute to agile delivery practices across the IDH program
- Support data governance activities including the documentation of data lineage, ownership, and quality rules
- 3–5 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst in financial services or investment management
- Hands-on experience with Markit EDM / S&P Global EDM / Opus EDM — including workflow configuration, data mapping, exception management, or data sourcing
- Familiarity with investment data domains: securities reference data, pricing, corporate actions, benchmarks, and/or fund data
- Strong SQL proficiency for data analysis, validation, and reconciliation
- Experience working with financial data vendors such as Bloomberg, ICE, Refinitiv, or equivalent
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders
- Experience working within agile/scrum delivery frameworks
- Direct integration experience with Charles River Development (CRD), SimCorp Dimension, Eagle PACE, or BarraOne
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks and tooling (Collibra, Alation, or similar)
- Exposure to cloud data platforms such as GCP (BigQuery), Azure Synapse, or Databricks
- Previous experience at a large Canadian financial institution or asset manager
If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!
At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.
What's in it for you?
Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.
#Dallas
Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.
Scotiabank is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.