Job Description Summary
The System Integration team is instrumental in advancing Thomson Reuters' strategic objectives through its M&A activities. The team's goal is to enable seamless transitions and integration by utilizing cutting-edge methodologies and implementing best practices. A core focus area is conducting comprehensive analyses and early discovery phases to ensure alignment and readiness for change. This enables effective decision-making and optimizes business outcomes.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Senior Systems Analyst, you will:
The Sr. Systems Analyst acts as a liaison among business stakeholders, facilitating smooth transitions in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. This role involves gathering, analyzing, communicating, and validating business requirements, and translating them into precise technical specifications. The analyst drives early discovery and requirement shaping phases to map current and target states, identifying gaps to create clear requirements for architectural design. They ensure that business value is realized in the target processes and maintain communication throughout the project.
- Responsible for the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business needs and requirements, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions.
- Conducts early discovery sessions to map current state and target state, identifying gaps and developing clear requirements to support architectural design.
- Ensures cross-program consistency, aligning global design and CPSP (Common Product and Service Platform) standards.
- Manages the resolution of design and requirement conflicts between teams, ensuring cohesive solutions.
- Drives key business design decision discussions across C2C (Customer to Customer), segments, and product owners.
- Serves as a key communicator who explains the origin and business value of processes, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Develops and improves business processes within the technology and business organizations, ensuring clarity and precision in requirements.
- Translates complex business requirements into technical solutions, making recommendations based on their impact on the business and stakeholders.
- Builds and maintains strong relationships with customers, ensuring that implementation follows design specifications.
- Creates key deliverables, including detailed requirements, identified gaps, process maps, and stakeholder lists.
- Proactively identifies, recommends, and implements process improvements, enhancing the efficiency of achieving the target state.
- Develops an in-depth awareness and understanding of multiple Thomson Reuters technologies, products, and services, contributing to strategic planning sessions..
About You
You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline required; Master’s of higher degree preferred
- 6+ years of relevant experience, including management consulting, business analysis, business architecture, process mapping
- Strong understanding of business processes, systems, and data flow
- Experience leading complex projects involving multiple internal stakeholders across functional areas
- Ability to act as liaison between business and IT to convey needs of the business to IT and map opportunities to requirements.
- Ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, cross-silo redundancies, and product complexities.
- Structured and critical thinking to deal with ambiguity and always challenge the status quo
- Comfortable in taking initiative and driving improvements independently
- Strong analytical skills
- Confident in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders
- Proven track record of collaborating across teams and organizations
- Strong communication skills and ability to create executive-level presentations
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams
- Strong interest in M&A and business design
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Collaborative and team-focused, with a willingness to take initiative
- Energetic, with drive, enthusiasm, and natural skills in relationship development
- Experience working in a large software or business information company is a plus.
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What’s in it For You?
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.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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. 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.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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What We Do
Thomson Reuters (NYSE / TSX: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information, visit tr.com.
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