Business Analyst

Pepkor Payments & Lending; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Pepkor Payments & Lending in Cape Town seeks a proactive Business Analyst to gather and document business requirements and create BRDs to guide development and operations. You will work with developers, testers and stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals.

You will plan analysis activities, elicit and prioritise requirements, validate solutions, and support testing and UAT, while mentoring peers and driving process improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis within the SDLC and ability to document requirements clearly.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills are essential.
• Proven ability to create BRDs and validate requirements with business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Assemble business requirements and create BRD to support development and operations.
• Plan and monitor business analysis activities throughout the SDLC.
• Elicit, manage and communicate requirements with stakeholders.
• Assess and validate proposed solutions and support testing / UAT.
• Mentor peers and identify trends to improve business processes.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

SDLC monitoring

Stakeholder engagement

BRD creation

Requirements prioritisation

Job description

Are you a team player that enjoys working with developers, testers, and stakeholders from the business? Do you appreciate taking the initiative, taking responsibility for your company demands, and enjoying becoming involved in the details? If the answer to each of these questions is "yes," Assembling the business's requirements, creating a Business Requirement Document (BRD), and doing analysis to support the development and operational teams will be your primary responsibilities.

Key Performance Areas:

1. Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

• Identify the Key stakeholders.
• Determine the activities required to successfully complete the business analysis.
• Track and communicate the progress of work items throughout the SDLC (monitor the task or tickets end-to-end throughout the lifecycle).
• Accurately estimate the required business analysis of work items.

2. Requirements Elicitation, Management & Communication

• Ensure all the resources needed for analysis are organized and scheduled.
• Meet with stakeholders to gather requirements.
• Document the business and functional and information requirements.
• Validate that the stated requirements match the stakeholders' expectations.

3. 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 the Product business architecture.
• Identify and define Value to be achieved, Assumptions, Constraints, Risks, Training and Reporting Requirements

4. 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. Review UAT test results (re-test where necessary) for deployment and perform Post Deployment checks
• Assess whether the organisation is ready to make effective use of the solution.
• Helps manage prioritisation process with business owners.

5. Product enablement & competency

• Provide business support for internal and external stakeholders within the PPL SLA and support with testing when necessary.
• Identify recurring themes and trends from business support which require solutions or updates to the current way of work
• Mentor peers and less experienced Business Analysts by providing guidance on products, analysis techniques and competencies.