Business Analyst - Private equity Valuations

Business Analyst – Private Equity Valuations

Role Overview

As a Business Analyst within the Private Equity (PE) Valuations team, you will act as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams. You will own the end-to-end process mapping, data schema documentation, and human-in-the-loop workflow designs for data-intensive financial valuation tools.

• Role Type: Business Analyst
• Experience Required: 10+ Years

Key Responsibilities

Workflow & Process Design

• Own the process mapping for the end-to-end multiple determination workflow, including inputs, transformations, outputs, and dependencies between stories.
• Design human-in-the-loop review gates, defining what information is surfaced to analysts, how overrides are captured, and how analyst sign-off flows through the system.
• Coordinate with Crystal and deal teams on structured data entry mechanisms and unstructured input formats.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Liaise between the engineering team and PE Valuations / Valuation Group stakeholders to resolve open design decisions (e.g., smoothing policy, PitchBook feasibility, and Athena timing gaps).
• Define and refine acceptance criteria for each user story in collaboration with the PE Valuations team, ensuring outputs perfectly match deal team model expectations.

Data Governance & System Validation

• Manage the Data Schema reference document, covering field definitions, mandatory vs. optional classifications, source hierarchy rules, and controlled vocabularies (Sector, Subsector, Business Model, Geography).
• Define configurable parameters—such as tolerance thresholds, recency windows, and EBITDA margin thresholds—and document their structural rationale.
• Validate prototype outputs against real deal team models to ensure mathematical accuracy and complete auditability.

Required Skills & QualificationsDomain & Technical Expertise

• PE Valuations: Deep domain knowledge of trading comps, precedent transactions, Enterprise Value (EV) bridges, and multiple selection.
• Data & Business Analysis: Strong capability in writing structured requirements, business analysis, and defining acceptance criteria for financial tools.
• Technical Proficiencies: Experience with BI Data Visualization tools (Tableau), PL/SQL, and data modelling/schema design (JSON output structures, rolling records).

Compliance & Testing

• Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with IFRS fair value measurement and stringent audit-readiness requirements.
• Quality Assurance: Proven experience in UAT coordination and test case design specifically geared for financial accuracy validation.

Soft Skills

• Strong stakeholder management capabilities across cross-functional deal teams, valuation groups, and engineering departments.

Pay: $65.00-$75.00 per hour

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Greater Toronto Area, ON