Business Analyst

Assignment Type: Hybrid (3 days per week onsite) Contract Duration: 6-month contract (with potential for a 6-month extension) Advantages: - Strategic EAM Scope: Lead end-to-end maturity assessments, target operating model designs, and enterprise platform evaluation strategies. - ISO 55000 Alignment: Apply global asset management standards to benchmark current practices and establish industry-leading frameworks. - Comprehensive Market Evaluation: Direct market scans and decision frameworks to select best-fit EAM platforms and integration architectures. - Flexible Hybrid Environment: Enjoy a balanced work model combining collaborative onsite sessions in Toronto with remote flexibility. Responsibilities: - Assess current asset management practices, processes, data structures, governance models, and supporting IT systems. - Conduct asset management maturity assessments aligned with ISO 55000 or equivalent recognized industry frameworks. - Identify operational gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and standardization opportunities to formulate targeted improvement strategies. - Define future-state asset management capabilities, process frameworks, governance structures, roles, and operating models. - Elicit, analyze, prioritize, and document enterprise-wide business, functional, integration, reporting, mobility, security, and non-functional requirements for EAM solutions. - Conduct market and jurisdictional scans to research viable EAM platforms, vendor capabilities, and implementation lessons learned from comparable organizations. - Develop objective evaluation frameworks to assess solutions against business fit, configurability, scalability, total cost of ownership, and integration needs. - Formulate defensible solution recommendations and build comprehensive implementation roadmaps outlining phases, priorities, risks, and dependencies. - Facilitate stakeholder workshops, interviews, and validation sessions with operational, technical, and executive leads to build consensus. - Author executive-ready deliverables, including maturity reports, capability models, requirements traceabilities, evaluation matrices, and strategy reports. Qualifications: Core Requirements & Asset Management Tenure: - Senior BA Tenure: Minimum 7 years of progressive Business Analysis experience, with substantial focus on enterprise asset management (EAM) transformations, infrastructure management, or software implementations. - Education: Degree in Asset Management, Business Analysis, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience). - Framework Depth (ISO 55000): Demonstrated expertise in mature asset management practices across the full asset lifecycle and experience conducting maturity assessments aligned with ISO 55000 frameworks. - EAM Platform Knowledge: Hands-on experience with core EAM platforms (such as IBM Maximo, SAP EAM, Oracle, Infor EAM, Cityworks, or equivalent) and their integration points with GIS, financial, procurement, and mobile systems. - Market Scan & Solution Evaluation: Proven experience conducting market/jurisdictional scans, constructing objective scoring frameworks, and recommending best-fit EAM software. - Infrastructure & Public Sector Context: Experience delivering asset management assignments within large, infrastructure-intensive or public-sector organizations. Soft Skills & Delivery Capabilities: - Stakeholder Engagement & Workshop Facilitation: Superior workshop facilitation, interviewing, and consultative skills to engage operational teams and advise senior management. - Analytical Tools: Advanced proficiency with standard Business Analysis tools, Microsoft 365, and Visio for process mapping and document authoring.