Business Analyst III (Senior)

Boardroom Appointments; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Business Analyst III to optimize business processes and facilitate stakeholder collaboration. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in banking, a degree in a related field, and a strong background in business process transformation and requirements analysis.

Qualifications

• Must have at least 8-10 years experience as a business analyst.
• Experience with banking required.
• Knowledge of process modelling standards (BPMN) and system design.

Responsibilities

• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition.
• Foster stakeholder relationships for delivery and discovery.
• Conduct system demos and lead program ceremonies.

Skills

Business Process Reengineering

Workflow management

Process automation

Business Intelligence

Analytics

Reporting

Education

Bachelors degree or Diploma in Business, Computer Science, or Information Systems

Job description

About the job: Business Analyst III (Senior)

Contract position

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelors degree or Diploma in Business, Computer Science, or Information Systems
• Must have at least 8-10 years experience as a business analyst involved with assessing, mapping and optimizing business processes.
• Experience with systems design, testing, and troubleshooting is a plus
• Banking experience required
• Experience in applying process modelling standards such as BPMN.

Knowledge of and exposure to business process transformation, including process enabling and integrating technologies:

• Business Process Reengineering
• Workflow / Workflow management / Process automation
• Business Rules Engines (Business Rules Processing)
• Enterprise Content Management
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Presentation technologies
• Business Intelligence, Analytics and Reporting

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, PO 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 synthesis the data to articulate requirements
• Work with development UQA 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 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 level
• Conduct system demos and contribute to L&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