Business Analyst

Boardroom Appointments; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector seeks a Business Analyst with extensive experience managing complex IT projects. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in banking and Agile methodologies, with a strong emphasis on eliciting stakeholder requirements and managing project lifecycles effectively.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of BA experience in managing IT projects.
• Banking experience in Collections, Credit, Lending, and Payments.
• Experience in complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Conduct requirements analysis and strategy analysis for large enterprise initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Participate in Backlog Refinement and prioritization.

Skills

Agile experience

Stakeholder management

Requirements analysis

Business exposure

Education

IT qualification

Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA

Safe Certification

Job description

About the job Business Analyst

Our client in the Financial sector is looking for a Business Analyst

Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications

• IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.
• 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure.
• Banking Experience:
  • Collections & Recovery
  • Credit & Risk Management
  • Secured & Unsecured Lending
  • Payments
  • Wealth Products experience
  • Product and Client Onboarding.
• Agile experience essential (Not just writing stories in Jira and Confluence)

Responsibilities:

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
• 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 of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices.
• Analyze and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPls 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 and participate in defining the proposed solution.
• 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 and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect.
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization.
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive.
• Analyze/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level.
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks and issues.
• Guide others on how to effectively use common techniques.