Requirements Manager

BA Manageris responsible forleading business analysis delivery across the FIRST regulatory portfolio, ensuring high-quality requirements, aligned execution, and data-driven decision support. This role combines deep BAexpertisewith people leadership, coaching, and portfolio-level oversight, enabling consistent delivery and adoption of best practices across multiple initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

1. BA Leadership & People Management

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Business Analysts, providing guidance on analysis approaches, deliverables, and stakeholder engagement.

• Provideday-to-day oversight of BA work, including structuring work packages, assigning responsibilities, and ensuringtimelydelivery.

• Review andvalidaterequirements documentation (e.g., business requirements, user stories, data requirements) to ensurequality, completeness, and alignment to business needs.

• Support BA development throughfeedback, capability building, and best practice sharing, fostering a high-performing BA community.

• Manage direct reports (where applicable), including performance management, career development, and resource planning.

2. Requirements Governance & Quality Assurance

• Establish and enforcerequirements management standards, ensuring alignment with BMO BACoE/ CIOE practices.

• Ensure requirements are: 

• Clearly articulated, traceable, testable, and aligned to business outcomes

• Reviewed, approved, and signed off by relevant stakeholders

• Act asescalation pointfor requirements-related issues, resolving blockers and ensuring progress.

• Drive consistency indocumentation, modeling, and validation practicesacross initiatives.

3. Agile Delivery & Execution Oversight

• Provide leadership across theend-to-end requirements lifecycle(intake, elicitation, analysis, refinement, delivery, validation).

• Ensure BAs effectively support delivery through: 

• User story development and backlog refinement

• Clear acceptance criteria and Definition of Ready/Done

• Stakeholder walkthroughs and validation sessions

• Work closely with Product Owners, PMs, and Technology teams to ensurealignment between requirements and delivery execution.

4. Portfolio-Level View (FIRST Regulatory Portfolio)

• Maintain anend-to-end view across the FIRST portfolio, ensuring alignment across multiple initiatives and workstreams.

• Drivecross-program consistencyin requirements, analysis approach, and execution.

• Identifyinterdependencies, risks, and opportunities across projects and escalate as needed.

• Partner with portfolio leadership to ensure requirements supportregulatory compliance, auditability, and data governance.

5. Data, Insights & Strategic Support

• Lead and guide BAs in performingdata analysis, trend identification, and insight generationto support decision-making.

• Ensure that analytics and reporting requirements are well-defined and aligned to business KPIs.

• Support strategic initiatives by: 

• Contributing toroadmaps, sequencing, and prioritization

• Providingimpact analysis and business case inputs

6. Best Practices & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with theBACoE/ CIOEto adopt and embed enterprise standards, tools, and methodologies.

• Drive continuous improvement inrequirements practices, tools, and delivery efficiency.

• Enable and promoteAI-assisted requirements practices(e.g., automation of documentation, analysis acceleration, quality checks).

• Promote knowledge sharing, communities of practice, and reuse across the portfolio.

7. Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

• Build strong relationships with business, technology, and regulatory stakeholders.

• Act as atrusted advisor and subject matter experton requirements and analysis practices.

• Facilitate workshops and discussions to align stakeholders on problem definition, requirements, and solutions.

• Support communication strategies to ensure effective stakeholder alignment and adoption.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Business Analysis, withdemonstratedleadership responsibility.

• Provenpeople management experience(direct or matrix), including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

• Strong understanding ofAgile and SDLC methodologies, including backlog management and requirements lifecycle.

• Deepexpertiseinrequirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation.

• Experience working inregulatory, risk, or transformation programs(preferred for FIRST portfolio context).

• Strongdata analysis and problem-solving skills, with ability to derive actionable insights.

• Excellentstakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.

• Experience drivingbest practice adoption and capability uplift across teams.

Preferred/Plus

• Experience delivering regulatory programs in banking (e.g., AML, KYC, Tax/FATCA, CRS, Financial Crime). 

• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance, audit, and reporting requirements, including control design and traceability. 

• Experience working across complex, multi-stream regulatory portfolios with cross-functional dependencies and strict timelines.

• Developing E2E Multiyear Roadmaps with different LOBs and managing the intake pipeline