Business Analyst II (Int - Snr)

Boardroom Appointments; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for a Business Analyst II for a contract position in South Africa. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 8 years of experience in business analysis, particularly in Wealth Management or financial services. Responsibilities include conducting planning, eliciting information from stakeholders, and analyzing requirements for large enterprise initiatives. The role requires advanced diplomas and certifications in business analysis, with a strong emphasis on agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years BA experience.
• Experience with Wealth Management or financial services.
• Skilled in guiding others on relevant techniques.

Responsibilities

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning for BA efforts.
• Elicit and collaborate to gather information from stakeholders.
• Analyze and document requirements for projects.

Skills

Business Analysis

Agile Concepts

Data and Business Analysis

Process Engineering Skills

Microsoft Office Product

Education

Advanced Diplomas/National

Preferred IT Qualification

Business Analysis Certificate endorsed by IIBA

Job description

Overview

About the job Business Analyst II (Int - Snr) – Contract

Minimum Requirements

• Advanced Diplomas/National
• Preferred Qualification IT qualification
• 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.