Requisition ID: 184966
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Solutions - CFO
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Alberta; Nova Scotia
City: Mississauga / Calgary / Stellarton

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada's Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better - great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a 12 months contract opportunity for a Business Analyst. This role can be based out of one our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON; Calgary, AB.

Here's where you'll be focusing:

As a Business Analyst at Sobeys you will:

• Work as a liaison among stakeholders to understand the objectives, policies, and operations of various functions within the organization, and recommend solutions that enable strategic goals to be met.
• Responsible for partnering with Operations and Finance to create business cases to justify new initiatives, programs, services, and technology.
• Responsible for the development of business requirements for IT solutions, including but not limited to business reports, systems, applications, and vendor programs.
• Conduct financial analysis to support project evaluation, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Hold requirements gathering sessions by identifying the right participants, preparing the appropriate material, reviewing the project scope, and identifying key assumptions.
• Identify opportunities for new and more efficient ways of conducting business based on market research and competitive landscape; ensure proper vetting against regulatory and financial requirements.
• Meet regularly with user groups in all divisions to identify opportunities for enhancements and maintain alignment between functional areas.
• Communicate functional developments and enhancements to user groups through various media (Web, Email, On-site training).
• Contribute to the acceptance of applications and application enhancements via a formal test process.
• May participate in the development of user training material as required.
• Seek final sign-off of the detailed business requirements from the business sponsor.
• Improve business processes by defining the existing "As-Is" process and the new "To-Be" process using proper methodologies.
• Assist in project planning, financial tracking, and monitoring activities for projects and initiatives with an approved business case.
• Work closely with Application Developers to provide business requirements translation.
• Collaborate with the application support team to provide clarification of business requirements to aid in the development of solutions to production incidents and maintenance requests.
• Work closely with Operations, Finance, and support functions to outline business requirements and conduct financial analysis for cost/benefit evaluations.

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What you have to offer:

Your Resume should clearly outline the following experience:

• An Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or Business, or 5 years related experience in retail analysis.
• Experience gathering business requirements, business process reengineering, process mapping and application testing
• Ability to prototype and/or process map at the requirements stage to firm up and validate requirements
• Ability to complete a detailed business case for incoming project/initiatives requests that include cost/benefit analysis.
• Ability to complete detailed business requirements documents.
• Ability to walk through the detailed business requirements document with the end-users of the system or process and make any final modifications.
• Ability to resolve conflict between functional groups.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a competitive compensation package, which varies by role. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.