Senior Business Systems Specialist

Title: Senior Business Systems Specialist

Department: IT Corporate Systems

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Welcome to ivari

Let us introduce ourselves. With 300+ employees across Canada, ivari is a company that’s making a difference in the world of life insurance. How? By finding and hiring employees who are passionate about helping people protect their families, and by giving them the best, most supportive workplace possible.

ivari is part of Sagicor Financial Corporation, a leading financial services provider with over 185 years of history operating across the Caribbean, US, and Canada. We offer a wide range of products and services, including life and health insurance, annuities, pension administration and investment services.

At ivari, everyone is welcome! It is our mission to attract, develop, and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and the communities in which we do business. We offer an inclusive and accessible work environment where all employees and customers feel valued, respected, and supported.

Here’s the job opportunity…

This is a new position.

ivari is seeking a high‑performing Senior Business Systems Specialist to provide the coordination support in delivering new product launches and ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of financial, actuarial and other interface data flows across the organization.

This position requires a high level of independence, strong business and systems analysis expertise, documentation and presentation skills, proven ability to collaborate and work across Product, Pricing, Finance, Actuarial, other business units, BI, IT, and external vendor DXC in a complex, regulated environment, to support feasibility studies, product specifications, resolve high‑impact issues and deliver results

You will…

Provide senior‑level business systems analysis for policy administration, interface feeds, accounting‑related systems to support the ivari new Products launch

Analyze and trace end‑to‑end data flows from source systems through downstream reporting and analytics

Partner with Finance and Actuarial teams to support accounting data interpretation, reconciliations, and issue resolution

Translate complex business, accounting, and regulatory requirements into clear system, data, and process impacts

Participate in system enhancements, issue resolution, testing, and deployment validation

Proactively assess risk, dependencies, and downstream impacts of system and data changes before they reach production

Support Finance‑critical data flows (such as the end-to-end upload of GL Entries)

Support Compliance reporting and controls (such as the Advisor @ Glance report or Compliance Risk Matrix reports)

Design and support solutions leveraging cloud platforms and services (e.g., Azure, Assure Cloud, Saas Environments)

What we are looking for…

Post secondary education.

Business and systems experience within an insurance or financial services organization

Strong understanding of insurance products and pricing concepts

Demonstrated experience working with system‑generated financial or policy data

Proven ability to analyze complex problems and drive solutions independently

Strong stakeholder management skills across business and technology teams

Strong collaborative skills with IT, business teams and vendors.

Experience with Lifetrax or similar policy administration systems such as Ingenium.

Hands‑on experience with analytics or reporting platforms (e.g., SQL, Power BI, Fabric, Azure)

Familiarity with audit, control, or regulatory reporting processes

Familiarity with the Agile Software development cycle

Experience supporting system transformations, migrations, or major releases

Advanced business and systems analysis capability

Strong end‑to‑end systems and data mindset

Confident, clear, and professional stakeholder communication

High awareness of risk, controls, and downstream impacts

Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and decision‑making judgment

Commitment to documentation and knowledge sharing

What we pay…

$98,000 - $135,000

What's in it for you…

At ivari, it's important for us to keep our people motivated, recognized, and rewarded. We offer competitive base salaries plus a bonus, one of the many reasons ivari is a great place to work.

We also offer health and dental benefits for the entire family from Day 1! But that’s just the beginning. When you join the ivari team you also get…

A fantastic vacation plan and time off

A pension plan with 100% match by ivari

Employee savings plan with 75% match to help you save even more

Flexible and hybrid work arrangements

Opportunities for professional development

Recognition programs to cheer you on, motivate and reward

Wellness programs to keep you healthy and happy

Who you are…

Someone who enjoys a culture where everyone is genuinely respectful, and you can be your authentic self every day. Your contributions and opinions are not only sought but valued. You know the importance of, and live by, our core values of…

Bringing clarity and focus to your work

Taking ownership and doing what you say you will

Remaining flexible

Collaborating with others

Does this sound like you? We’re looking for great people to join our team!

Our commitment to inclusivity is reflected in the safeguards, policies, and commitments we have in place to remove barriers and provide equal opportunities to prospective and current employees, without discrimination.

To apply, please email your resume to: human.resources@ivari.ca

A Human Resources representative is available to consult with applicants who require accommodation in the application or recruitment process. Any information shared by the applicant about an accommodation will be treated as confidential. If you do require an accommodation, please email human.resources@ivari.ca

** ivari does not utilize AI in our recruitment process to screen, select, or assess applicants