Business Analyst III

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

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a seasoned Business Analyst to drive requirements, design definitions, and lifecycle management for enterprise initiatives. You will collaborate with stakeholders, model complex data flows, and align backlog with strategic themes and KPIs.

The role emphasizes IIBA-aligned practices, agile delivery, and continuous value realization. The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of BA experience across IT projects, with relevant IT qualifications and BA endorsement by IIBA.

Qualifications

• Advanced diplomas or national 1st degrees are required.
• IT qualification and a BA certificate endorsed by IIBA; Safe certification.
• BA experience of 5–8 years managing multiple IT projects and related exposure.

Responsibilities

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring to estimate, organize and coordinate BA efforts on enterprise initiatives.
• Elicit and collaborate with stakeholders to obtain information.
• Analyze and design requirements to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs.
• Manage requirements life cycle from inception to retirement.
• Define strategy analyses to address business needs and solution scope.
• Evaluate solutions to ensure value delivery and remove barriers.
• Follow IIBA best practices and agile delivery principles.
• Analyze document requirements impacted by changes to users, interfaces, processes, and data flows.
• Understand product roadmaps, KPIs and align requirements accordingly.
• Articulate opportunities and identify stakeholders wants to shape proposed solutions.
• Model scope, interfaces, data flows and processes with diagrams and collaborative methods.
• Decompose epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria and gaps.

Education

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

IT qualification, a certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe certification

BA experience 5-8 years in managing IT projects

Job description

• 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 the 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 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 learn principles based on the Organizations delivery approach as per BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices
• Analyses the document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements
• Understand the portfolios 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 stakeholders 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
• 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 stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements
• Work with development/QA to identify case 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 devops and Built-in quality principles
• Analyse /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 levels
• Conduct systems demos and contribute to A&I 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, issues

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• IT qualification, a 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, industry exposure. Guiding others on how to use common techniques effectively. Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors