Business Analyst

Rand Mutual Assurance; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Johannesburg is looking for a Business Analyst to gather and analyze business needs while providing data insights to improve long-term insurance metrics. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree, strong SQL skills, and experience in the insurance or financial services sector. The role offers a competitive salary and flexible work arrangements, emphasizing teamwork and personal development.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Flexible work arrangements

Personal and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in providing consulting to senior business management required.
• Experience in the insurance or financial services industry is a requirement.
• Must be a strong performer, capable of consistently producing deliverables on time.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess and provide solutions to business requirements.
• Liaise with appropriate stakeholders to identify business requirements.
• Facilitate implementation of new functionality through documentation.

Skills

SQL skills

Data analysis and interpretation

Consulting to senior management

Writing user stories

Agile development environment

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

NQF Level 7: Bachelor's or advanced degree

Business Analyst Certification (FTI)

Post graduate degree in Business

Tools

SQL Server

Hadoop

SSIS

PowerBI

Tableau

Job description

THE JOB AT A GLANCE

The Business Analyst in the Business Enablement team has the responsibility to gather, analyse, document, and validate the needs of the business stakeholders and serves as the principal conduit for managing data insights requirements between the business and the data warehouse development team. Key to this role is the gathering and the interpretation of data in order to meet and solve business requirements. The individual should have the ability to problem solve and present solutions to senior management using data insights. Key to this role is the interpretation of key long‑term insurance metrics to enhance the life business strategy. The primary responsibilities are to gather business requirements from business users and subject matter experts, define and document those requirements, write functional specifications, perform data gap analysis between requirements and existing data sources, coordinate with data scientists. Engage the business leads on business requirements and use data and data insights to solution. Interpretation of data is the key function of the business analyst and the subsequent business solutions and requirements.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Identify, assess and provide solutions to business requirements
• Liaise with appropriate stakeholders to identify, assess, and document business requirements
• Carry out the relevant assessment to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible
• Analyse impact of proposed solution across the business, develop use cases to explain / demonstrate business requirements / specifications to IT team, and contribute a business or process perspective during design reviews
• Engage and collaborate with cross functional teams
• Assist testing / QA team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans, and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed
• Facilitate implementation of new functionality through the development of appropriate documentation
• Work with test team to develop system integration test scripts and ensure the testing results correspond to the business expectations

WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO THE TABLE?

• NQF Level 7 : Bachelor's or advanced degree in business or technical-related discipline
• Business Analyst Certification (FTI) (advantageous)
• Post graduate degree in Business (advantageous)
• 3 to 5 years of experience in providing consulting to senior business management required.
• Experience in the insurance or financial services industry is a requirement.
• Experience in writing user stories and acceptance criteria based on business requirement in an agile development environment.
• Must be a strong performer, capable of consistently producing deliverables on time.
• Must possess strong SQL skills
• Experience working in agile (scrum) development environment
• Domain knowledge in Insurance, financial & regulatory reporting is a plus
• Technical expertise working on database appliances, columnar database and big data (e.g. Hadoop, SQL Server), ETL (SSIS, Ab Initio, Data stage, Informatica) and BI (SSRS, PowerBI, Tableau, Cognos) is preferable.
• Experience working with regulatory projects (Basel III, PoPI, BCBS 239) is a plus.
• Provide Data Insights
• Data analysis and interpretation
• Ability to identify gaps and solution according to strategy

WHAT WILL YOU GET IN RETURN?

We offer great opportunities for personal and professional development in a stable company that’s 131 years strong. The role comes with a competitive salary package and various benefits. Flexible work arrangements (combination of remote and in the office). Furthermore, you will be a part of a dedicated group of colleagues who value teamwork and collaboration.

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. Kindly note that should you not receive a response within 21 days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Our Commitment to transformation :

In accordance with the employment equity plan of Rand Mutual Assurance and its employment equity goals and targets; preference may be given, but is not limited, to candidates from under‑represented designated groups.