Business Analyst - Lending

Optimal Growth Technologies; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm based in Cape Town is looking for a Business Analyst to join their team for 6 months. This role involves ensuring user requirements are met within an agile environment, supporting Portfolio Managers, and performing detailed business analysis in the Lending sector. Candidates should have a relevant degree and extensive experience in business analysis, particularly in complex development environments.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of business analysis/systems analysis experience in a complex development environment.
• Experience in Financial Services and Supply Chain preferred.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and project management.

Responsibilities

• Support Portfolio Managers in research and analysis activities.
• Perform business analysis for the Lending team, creating accurate user stories.
• Liaise between business and technical teams to deliver solutions.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder engagement

Financial services knowledge

Education

3 Year Degree / Diploma in Information Technology / Business Analysis

Job description

About the job Business Analyst - Lending

Job Title: Business Analyst-Lending

Location: Cape Town

Duration: 6 months

Role purpose:

• Play a crucial part in ensuring the success of our Digital Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital financial services company.
• Ensure that user requirements for the business are technically understood, documented, developed, tested, and delivered in line with user expectations within an agile environment.
• This role is responsible for creating and estimating business requirements, user and technical stories.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Portfolio Managers in all research, scoping, analysis, and design activities.
• To perform business analysis and design activities by assessing requirements for the Lending team in Financial services in terms of feasibility, impact, and cost, thereby assisting to create and compile accurate user stories, derivation of business rules, customer journeys, and ensure this is well documented.
• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog
• To provide technical input into system definition and design activities and facilitate the delivery of value-added solutions.
• To research / investigate current industry trends and standards in terms of technologies deployed/planned to be deployed and how that can enhance/optimize systems.
• Act as a technical liaison between business and the technical teams and ensure the required support from all areas to ensure the delivery of quality solutions.
• Ensure that projects are delivered according to requirements, and specified designs and that the technical and business teams are aligned around the same objectives and deliverables.
• To ensure that solutions are delivered through the agile delivery processes and to support the technical scrum teams with the delivery of solutions e.g. facilitation of configuration, testing, and rollout coordination.
• To research, define, and maintain industry best practices.
• To maintain, re-evaluate, optimize or automate existing business processes.
• To create reports and feedback for executive and line management.
• Perform quality assurance across business analysis documentation, vendor documentation, proposals, technical designs, test documentation, and operational handover documentation.
• To partake in all of the key agile ceremonies within the team to contribute to the successful delivery.

Ideally you should possess the following:

• Matric/Grade 12 is essential.
• 3 Year Degree / Diploma in Information Technology / Business Analysis.
• 5-8 years of business analysis/systems analysis experience preferably in a highly complex development environment.
• Agile methodology and experience preferred.
• Experience in Financial Services.
• Experience in Supply chain preferred Lending experience preferred.
• Complex business analysis use cases Group facilitation sessions.
• Change control procedures Agile Methodologies Project management Business analysis methods Product development.