Senior Business Analyst

We anticipate the successful candidate working on a hybrid basis from our office in Toronto, Canada.

Want to use your software knowledge and analytical skills to drive technological change at one of the world's most trusted newsrooms?

Reuters is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our News Production team in Toronto . Our News Production team drives the rapidly evolving and strategic technology initiatives of Reuters News , one of the world's most trusted news organizations.

As a Senior Business Analyst , you will provide the business and technical analysis that helps drive the delivery of our newsroom's technology solutions. You'll be an integral part of the software development life-cycle and will work on identifying, defining, and building capabilities that add value to our editorial tools and services, which support the entire editorial workflow for Reuters News journalists around the globe. Additionally, you'll also have the chance to implement new features and expanding the product offering for our existing clients, whilst ensuring that our current product suite is functioning correctly through regular testing and maintenance of our systems.

About the Role

As Senior Business Analyst - News Production, at Reuters , you will:

Support the Product Owner in ensuring on-time and in-scope delivery of the roadmap.

Capture, articulate and drive requirements by working closely with business stakeholders

Collect, analyze and synthesize data to support the requirements. Translate into detailed technology needs, formal specifications, KPIs and technical solutions as required

Manage expectations of stakeholders on new development work and ongoing support activities, as well as act as a point of contact for any related queries

Collaborate closely with Development, QA, DevOps and Project Management teams to ensure all requirements are understood and can be delivered effectively

Identify project and delivery dependencies across teams and line-up deliveries appropriately

Own and maintain user stories and requirements that will drive the development and testing

About You

You're a fit for the role of Senior Business Analyst at Thomson Reuters if you:

Have excellent technical and analytical skills, gained through demonstrable experience within a prior software development or business analysis position.

Want to develop your existing skills and take initiative to deliver great results. We're looking for someone with the ability to quickly learn new content subject areas and apply technology solutions to them to benefit our newsrooms.

Have demonstrable experience of writing and testing functional and non-functional software requirements, whilst work on multiple tasks and projects, prioritizing as required.

Have great analytical and problem-solving skills. We're looking for someone with the ability to deconstruct activities into manageable tasks and prioritize the scheduling of both development initiatives and defect fixes.

Are highly-organized with the ability to engage and collaborate with colleagues across the globe.

Experience with Agile software development.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with competency in collaboration, stakeholder management and negotiation.

Drive, initiative and the ability to work unsupervised when required.

Previous exposure to news production or financial/risk content or generative AI would be advantageous but is not required.

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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