Business Analyst (Cape Town, South Africa)

Business Analyst (Cape Town, South Africa)

Our client is a renowned Financial Services firm in South Africa, they are seeking a Business Analyst to work with their Program Management team.

Role Purpose

Capturing the business requirements of the business, write user stories and do analysis to support the Scrum team

Responsibilities

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

• Identify the appropriate stakeholders
• Determine the activities required to successfully complete the business analysis
• Accurately estimate the required business analysis of work items
• For analysis purposes, have a detailed understanding of the source system (including database structures and
process flows)

Requirements Elicitation, Management and Collaboration
• Investigate, evaluate, design and propose solutions to address business requirements
• Validate that the stated requirements match the stakeholders’ expectations
• Work with project stakeholders to identify, model, and then document their requirements and business domain details
• Structure the requirements in the agreed format so that it is understandable by all stakeholders
• Ensure the timely analysis and documentation of business requirements for the delivery team
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to help the team work together and to provide a good service
• Communicate the requirements to all stakeholders and obtain stakeholder sign off within the estimate time
• Capture areas of opposing opinion

Requirements Analysis
• Ensure that requirements are prioritized.
• Use a combination of text, matrices, diagrams and formal models to conceptualise the requirements
• Define Assumptions, Constraints and Risks
• Ensure that requirements specifications meet the necessary standard of quality
• Validate that all requirements support business architecture

Solution Assessment and Validation
• Ensure that the proposed solution meet the stakeholders’ requirements
• Assist the testing team to ensure the solution is validated against the business requirements
• Assess whether the organisation is ready to make effective use of the solution

Life Cycle Management
• Use a combination of text, matrices, diagrams and formal models to conceptualise the business requirements
• Ensure that the requirement specifications meet the necessary standard of quality
• Act as interface with business and the delivery team during the SDLC
• Understands and can describe the basic function of the business’s core system

Qualifications

• Good understanding of business analysis concepts, tools and methodologies.
• Ability to facilitate, research, model and define requirements
• Experience working in a scrum development process.
• Quick problem solver with an eye for detail and accuracy
• Experience in using SQL to query databases and complete test cases is advantageous.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to help the team work together and to provide a good service

• 3-year tertiary qualification in relevant technical/analytical related field of study
• Diploma in Business Analysis from FTI or equivalent
• 3+ Years in a similar role in a formal business analysis environment