Business Analyst (Industrial Engineering)

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Business Analyst (Industrial Engineering) in Cape Town. The role focuses on documenting business processes, developing system requirements, and ensuring up-to-date policy and technical documentation across client projects.

The Industrial Engineering track involves designing control systems, production standards, cost analyses, facility layouts, and staff training. The candidate should have a BCom in Supply Chain and solid software/DB knowledge, with strong

Qualifications

• BCom Supply Chain degree required.
• Basic software knowledge and skills.
• Basic knowledge of a programming language.
• Understanding of databases and networks.
• Strong analytical and evaluative skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Stakeholder analysis and planning abilities.
• Supply chain knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and creating specifications as requested by the sales and account management team.
• Collaborate with managers and consultants to document business processes.
• Ensure infrastructure documents, manuals and policy materials are up to date.
• Develop functional system requirements to improve performance and interfaces.
• Record and report requirements using standard templates and manage traceability.
• Contribute to test planning and test script development; assist in test execution.
• Create training materials and conduct client training.
• Develop automated functional and regression testing tools.

Skills

Stakeholder analysis

Multitasking

Creative thinking

Supply Chain knowledge

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Planning and organizing

Documentation

Education

BCom Supply Chain

Tools

Excel

Word

Job description

About the job Business Analyst (Industrial Engineering)

BUSINESS ANALYST

• Design and creating specification as requested by the sales and account management team
• Collaborating with managers and consultants to effectively document business process
• Ensuring that the appropriate infrastructure elements, such as documents. Policy documents, manuals, periodicals, etc; are up to date and readily available
• Creating and developing functional system requirements for improving performances, quality, external interfaces, and constraints
• Checking and analysing derived requirements using standard templates for both used cases and detailed software
• Outlining specifications of the requirements using standard templates for both used cases and detailed software
• Managing requirements and making sure that are stored in automated systems
• Recording, manipulating, and making reports on the requirements that are in the rational tool suite
• Supervising requirements traceability and recording the status of the requirements through the course of the project
• Monitoring the changes in baseline requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools
• Contributing to the development of test plans and test scripts as well as performing test execution as required
• Document requirements gathering sessions with business partners and document use cases, requirements, UAT scenarios and other artifacts as applicable.
• Develop training manuals and conduct training to clients
• Develop automated functional testing and regression testing tool for business applications including web-based applications. Provide tools for automated testing capabilities for functional, regression, GUI, and data-driven testing.

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

• Design control systems for clients to minimise costs and production issues
• Develop design and production standards in cooperation with management and client personnel
• Prepare material and equipment lists, cost analyses and estimated production costs
• Design the layout of facilities and determine personnel requirements of client
• Train client staff for new processes and provide instructions and manuals
• Ideally the successful incumbent should have.

BUSINESS ANALYST REQUIRED SKILLS

• BCom Supply Chain
• Basic software knowledge and skills
• Basic knowledge of a programming language
• Understanding of databases and networks
• Stakeholder analysis
• Planning, organizing, and structuring work
• Excel, Word, and other Word processing software programs
• Good analytical and evaluative skills
• Written and oral communication abilities
• Multitasking
• Good interpersonal skills
• Creative thinking
• Supply Chain knowledge

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING REQUIRED SKILLS

• Proven work experience as an Industrial Engineer or similar role
• Knowledge of production machinery, processes, and standards
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and presentation abilities
• Troubleshooting expertise and attention to detail