Business Analyst

nedbank; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading South African financial institution is hiring a Business Analyst to enhance data initiatives and ensure data quality. The ideal candidate will collaborate across departments and utilize tools like SAP and Power BI to analyze and document requirements. Strong analytical skills and the ability to manage data anomalies are essential. This role offers a strategic position within a dynamic team focused on continuous improvement of financial processes.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills to resolve data anomalies.
• Experience in data management and quality assurance.
• Ability to collaborate with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Align data initiatives with company goals.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition.
• Manage the Requirements Life Cycle.
• Perform strategy analysis for business needs.
• Support user acceptance testing and change management.

Skills

Proficiency in SAP product suite

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Power Apps

Decision Making

Building partnerships

Customer Orientation

Job description

Requisition Info and Talent Acquisition Contact

Cluster: Group Finance - SSCF MANAGEMENT

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Process

Manage Self: Professional

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Snr Financial Business Analyst to align data initiatives with strategic company goals and financial planning objectives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders, ensuring data anomalies and inconsistencies are surfaced and addressed early.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organise, specify, and model requirements and designs, with a focus on identifying and resolving data quality issues and anomalies.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement, including tracking resolution of data-related anomalies.
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need, and the scope of the solution.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints—including data anomalies—that prevent full realisation of value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery, and lean principles based on Nedbank's delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies, and practices.
• Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users' interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements, with a strong emphasis on identifying and resolving anomalies in data.
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs; participate in defining the proposed solution, especially where data anomalies impact business outcomes.
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives, and dependencies across projects.
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories, acceptance criteria, scenario development, and all requirement categories.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation analysis, and story writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process capability alignment by pairing with PE Business Architect.
• Support team in working on impediments, spikes, enabler epics, enabler stories; synthesise data, articulate requirements, and proactively identify anomalies and inconsistencies.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing, train trainer/user support, change management, and commercialisation.
• Analyse/document data requirements, model data flows through seven product dimensions, and pair with BDMs at solution/program level to identify and resolve anomalies.
• Conduct system demos, offer and implement suggestions for improvement, especially in areas where data anomalies affect performance.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste and rework, identifying risks and issues—including those arising from data anomalies.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment/integration; ensure review, maintain quality, reduce waste, control and identify risks/issues.

Additional Role-Specific Responsibilities

• Review the reasonableness of cluster submissions.
• Implement analytics to assist with budget reviews, gap identification, and trend analysis.
• Ensure BI and BPC systems are balanced and reconciled
• Continuously automate and improve financial processes to reduce repetitive tasks performed by financial officers.
• Determine and advise on optimal product mix for efficient and accurate BI reporting.

Customer Experience & Service Design:

• Enhance service approach and design to ensure a positive and seamless customer experience.
• Proactively manage risk and audit issues, ensuring compliance and data integrity across reporting systems.

Technical/Professional Knowledge

• The candidate should ideally display proficiency in aspects of the SAP product suite, Power BI, and Microsoft Excel and Power Apps.
• Decision Making
• Building partnerships
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Initiating Action
• Customer Orientation

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