Job Description

Job Description: Business Analyst responsible for supporting Private Equity Valuations initiatives by defining requirements, managing valuation workflows, validating financial data models, and bridging business stakeholders with engineering teams to deliver accurate, auditable valuation solutions.

Location: Toronto (Hybrid)

Contract Duration: 6 months

Key Responsibilities

• Own process mapping for end-to-end valuation multiple determination workflows, including inputs, transformations, outputs, and dependencies.
• Liaise between engineering teams and Private Equity Valuations stakeholders to resolve design decisions and business requirements.
• Define and refine business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure outputs align with valuation and deal team expectations.
• Design human-in-the-loop review processes, analyst workflows, override mechanisms, and approval processes.
• Manage and maintain data schema documentation, field definitions, source hierarchies, and controlled vocabularies.
• Coordinate with deal teams regarding structured and unstructured data collection methodologies.
• Validate prototype outputs against real-world valuation models for accuracy, consistency, and auditability.
• Define and document configurable business rules, tolerance thresholds, recency windows, and valuation parameters.
• Support UAT planning, execution, defect management, and financial accuracy validation.
• Collaborate with valuation teams, business stakeholders, and technology teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Core Qualifications

• 10+ years of Business Analysis experience.
• Strong domain expertise in Private Equity Valuations.
• Deep understanding of:
• Trading Comparable Analysis
• Precedent Transactions
• Enterprise Value (EV) Bridges
• Multiple Selection Methodologies
• Experience defining and documenting complex business requirements for financial and data-intensive applications.
• Strong understanding of valuation processes, methodologies, and financial modeling concepts.
• Familiarity with IFRS fair value measurement requirements and audit-readiness practices.
• Experience creating:
• Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
• Functional Specifications
• Acceptance Criteria
• Process Flows
• Data Mapping Documents
• Strong stakeholder management experience across valuation groups, deal teams, and technology organizations.
• Experience with data modeling, schema design, JSON structures, and financial data workflows.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within Private Equity, Asset Management, Investment Management, or Capital Markets environments.
• Experience with Tableau and BI reporting solutions.
• Knowledge of structured and unstructured data processing methodologies.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Experience with financial data governance and audit controls.
• Strong SQL or PL/SQL skills.

Key Skills

• Business Analysis
• Private Equity Valuations
• Valuation Modeling
• Trading Comparables
• Precedent Transactions
• Enterprise Value (EV)
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• IFRS Fair Value Measurement
• Data Modeling
• Schema Design
• JSON
• Tableau
• BI Data Visualization
• PL/SQL
• Requirements Gathering
• User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria
• UAT
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile