Business Analyst - News Production

Summary :

We anticipate the successful candidate working on a hybrid basis from our office in Bangalore, India.

Want to use your software knowledge and analytical skills to drive technological change at one of the world's most trusted newsrooms?

Reuters is seeking a Business Analyst to join our News Production team in Toronto. Our News Production team drives the rapidly evolving and strategic technology initiatives of Reuters News, one of the world's most trusted news organizations.

As a Business Analyst, you will provide the business and technical analysis that helps drive the delivery of our newsroom's technology solutions. You'll be an integral part of the software development life-cycle and will work on identifying, defining, and building capabilities that add value to our editorial tools and services, which support the entire editorial workflow for Reuters News journalists around the globe. Additionally, you'll also have the chance to implement new features and expanding the product offering for our existing clients, whilst ensuring that our current product suite is functioning correctly through regular testing and maintenance of our systems.

About the role:

Support the Product Owner in ensuring on-time and in-scope delivery of the roadmap.

• Capture, articulate and drive requirements by working closely with business stakeholders
• Collect, analyze and synthesize data to support the requirements. Translate into detailed technology needs, formal specifications, KPIs and technical solutions as required
• Manage expectations of stakeholders on new development work and ongoing support activities, as well as act as a point of contact for any related queries
• Collaborate closely with Development, QA, DevOps and Project Management teams to ensure all requirements are understood and can be delivered effectively
• Identify project and delivery dependencies across teams and line-up deliveries appropriately
• Own and maintain user stories and requirements that will drive the development and testing
  
  
  

About You:

You're a fit for the role of Business Analyst at Thomson Reuters if you:

• Have excellent technical and analytical skills, gained through demonstrable experience within a prior software development or business analysis position.
• Want to develop your existing skills and take initiative to deliver great results. We're looking for someone with the ability to quickly learn new content subject areas and apply technology solutions to them to benefit our newsrooms.
• Have demonstrable experience of writing and testing functional and non-functional software requirements, whilst work on multiple tasks and projects, prioritizing as required.
• Have great analytical and problem-solving skills. We're looking for someone with the ability to deconstruct activities into manageable tasks and prioritize the scheduling of both development initiatives and defect fixes.
• Are highly-organized with the ability to engage and collaborate with colleagues across the globe.
• Experience with Agile software development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with competency in collaboration, stakeholder management and negotiation.
• Drive, initiative and the ability to work unsupervised when required.
• Previous exposure to news production or financial/risk content or generative AI would be advantageous but is not required.
  
  
  

What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading 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.
• 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, and hybrid model, 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 skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• 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.
• 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.
  
  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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