Business Analyst II (Int - Snr)

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Business Analyst II (Int - Snr) in Johannesburg to lead BA efforts on large IT programs within the financial services sector.

You will guide elicitation, requirements analysis, and lifecycle management, while aligning with portfolio strategy and KPIs. Strong stakeholder engagement and Agile/lean delivery experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Advanced diploma or national qualification in a related field.
• Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA or equivalent.
• BA certifications (Safe / essential / preferred) are advantageous.
• Minimum 8 years BA experience in IT projects.
• Experience leading large/complex enterprise initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate BA efforts for large, complex initiatives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Analyze requirements and define designs and models.
• Manage requirements lifecycle from inception to retirement.
• Define strategy, future state and transition plans.
• Evaluate solutions for value and constraint removal.
• Apply IIBA practices, Agile product delivery and lean principles.
• Analyze changes across users, interfaces, data, and processes.
• Align requirements with portfolio themes, roadmap and KPIs.
• Decompose epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile concepts

Data analysis

Process engineering

Documentation

Stakeholder collaboration

Microsoft Office

Education

Advanced Diplomas/National

Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the job Business Analyst II (Int - Snr)

Contract

• Advanced Diplomas/National
• Business Analysis, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA
• Safe Certification Essential Certifications Preferred Certifications IIBA endorsed
• Minimum Experience Level 8 years BA experience
• Manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure.
• Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.
• Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors.
• Wealth Management or/and financial services Technical / Professional Knowledge
• Research methodology
• BA Body Of Knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Agile Concepts
• Data and Business analysis
• Process Engineering Skills
• Global business analysis Trend
• Business Analysis Discipline, Techniques and Practices
• Microsoft Office Product

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 requirements and designs.
• 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.
• Analyse 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, 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 and participate to define 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.