Business Analyst

Linkfields Innovations (Pty) Ltd; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Linkfields Innovations (Pty) Ltd is seeking a seasoned Business Analyst to support a multi-phase Telco transformation programme. You will go beyond requirements capture, challenging and simplifying legacy processes while guiding stakeholders toward a rationalized target state for the new platform.

The role involves eliciting requirements across mobile and fixed line services, analyzing end-to-end business processes, and collaborating with architects and vendors to ensure a clean integration

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a business analysis role, with at least 3 years in telecommunications.
• Working knowledge of BSS process across mobile(prepaid, postpaid) and fixed line services
• Sufficient IT background to hold credible discussion with architects and developers on system behaviour, data and integration
• Demonstrable experience optimising or rationalising business process, not only documenting it
• Prior experience on a large scale migration or system replacement programme
• Relevant degree or diploma. Formal business analysis certification such as CBAP or IIBA is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document business requirements across mobile (prepaid, postpaid and SMB) and fixed line network
• Conduct end to end business process analysis across the customer lifecycle, from acquisition through order, provisioning, charging, billing, care and collections
• Identify process duplication and complexity carried by the legacy Amdocs estate, and propose a simplified target state
• Facilitate requirements workshops with operator business units and the prime vendor's requirements team
• Produce business requirement specifications, process models and traceability matrices to a standard suitable for solution design and test case derivation
• Support integration requirements discovery in partnership with the solution architecture team
• Guide and coach business stakeholders on platform capability and the implications of process change
• Contribute to UAT scope definition, scenario design and defect triage from a business perspective
• Maintain requirements documentation through change, including impact assessment on downstream design and test

Skills

Business analysis

Telecommunications

Requirements elicitation

Process design

Stakeholder management

IT background

Education

Degree or diploma

Tools

CBAP

IIBA certification

Job description

We are recruiting Business Analysts to support a multi phase Telco transformation programme.

The role goes beyond requirements capture. The programme is seeking analysts who can challenge and simplify existing process across a mixed legacy estate, and who can guide business stakeholders toward a rationalized target state rather than replicating current process into the new platform.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Elicit and document business requirements across mobile (prepaid, postpaid and SMB) and fixed line network
• Conduct end to end business process analysis across the customer lifecycle, from acquisition through order, provisioning, charging, billing, care and collections
• Identify process duplication and complexity carried by the legacy Amdocs estate, and propose a simplified target state
• Facilitate requirements workshops with operator business units and the prime vendor's requirements team
• Produce business requirement specifications, process models and traceability matrices to a standard suitable for solution design and test case derivation
• Support integration requirements discovery in partnership with the solution architecture team
• Guide and coach business stakeholders on platform capability and the implications of process change
• Contribute to UAT scope definition, scenario design and defect triage from a business perspective
• Maintain requirements documentation through change, including impact assessment on downstream design and test

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Business analysis: Minimum 5 years in a business analysis role, with at least 3 years in telecommunications
• Telecommunications domain: Working knowledge of BSS process across mobile(prepaid, postpaid) and fixed line services
• Technical grounding: Sufficient IT background to hold credible discussion with architects and developers on system behaviour, data and integration
• Process design: Demonstrable experience optimising or rationalising business process, not only documenting it
• Transformation programmes: Prior experience on a large scale migration or system replacement programme
• Qualification: Relevant degree or diploma. Formal business analysis certification such as CBAP or IIBA is preferred.