Business Analyst Practice Lead

wePlace; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is looking for a Lead Business Analyst to enhance their Business Analyst Practice. The successful candidate will collaborate with a team to establish methodologies and best practices, while also overseeing daily operations. Key qualifications include a BCom/BSc degree, 5+ years in business analysis within the financial sector, and 2 years of team leadership experience. This role emphasizes effective communication and requires a strong understanding of Microsoft technologies and integration knowledge.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' Business Analysis experience in the financial services industry (preferably Short-term insurance).
• Minimum of 2 years Team Leadership experience.
• 5+ years experience of Microsoft technologies.
• Integration knowledge (API design, integration between on-premises and cloud).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure concepts such as virtualization, VPN, Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Define methodologies, techniques, and tools for Business Analysts.
• Establish standards and best practices for business analysis.
• Facilitate workshops to document business requirements.
• Oversee daily operations of the service desk.
• Manage the BA team to ensure project delivery.

Skills

Analytical thinker

Planning and organizing skills

Problem solving and analysis

Interpersonal skills

Education

BCom / BSc degree or equivalent qualification

Tools

Microsoft technologies (Windows, SharePoint, MS-365, MS-Teams, Power Apps)

Job description

Job description

The primary objective of this role is to assume leadership in the Business Analyst Practice. The Business Analysts Practice is a recent addition, and the successful candidate is expected to collaborate closely with a team of Business Analysts to strengthen and refine this function.

Responsibilities

• Defining the methodologies, techniques, and tools that Business Analysts (BAs) should use to gather, document, and analyse business requirements.
• Establish a set of standards and best practices for performing business analysis.
• Facilitating workshops, collecting, and documenting business requirements
• Analyse data, processes, and systems to identify areas for improvement or optimization.
• Encouraging collaboration and effective communication among BAs, other departments, stakeholders, and project teams. This can include regular meetings, knowledge sharing.
• Providing templates and guidelines for documenting requirements, process flows, use cases, and other relevant business analysis artifacts.
• Ensuring that business analysis activities align with project management processes and timelines, helping to define and prioritize requirements for projects.

Management and Oversight

• Ensure business and technical specifications and user stories provided to technical teams are complete, accurate, and unambiguous.
• Manage and oversee requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, and implementation activities.

Service Desk and BA Team Operations

• Oversee daily operations of the service desk, including resource management, prioritization, and adherence to service level agreements (SLAs).
• Work closely with Group ITSM manager IT Operations team
• Manage and guide the BA team, ensuring efficient delivery of projects and tasks.

Business Analysis and Delivery

Planning and Requirements

• If necessary, take ownership of deployment processes, ensuring successful transition of development items into production environments.

Role Fulfilment

• Perform the responsibilities of a Business Analyst in both existing and upcoming projects.
• Facilitate workshops for requirements gathering and analysis to ensure alignment with business objectives
• Develop user stories and related documentation to eliminate potential for miscommunication, misinterpretation, or misunderstanding, reducing rework and time wastage.

Change Management

Coordination and Representation

• Act as Change Manager, coordinating changes within the ST Admin environment.
• Organize and lead CAB (Change Advisory Board) meetings within ST Admin and represent ST Admin in Group CAB meetings.

Minimum requirements

• BCom / BSc degree or equivalent qualification
• Minimum of 5 years' Business Analysis experience in the financial services industry (preferable Short-term insurance)
• Minimum of 2 years Team Leadership experience
• 5+ years experience of Microsoft technologies (Windows, SharePoint, MS-365, MS-Teams, Power Apps, etc.).
• Integration knowledge (API design, integration between on-premises and cloud and multiple service provider platforms)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure concepts such as virtualisation, VPN, Cloud etc

Competencies required

• Analytical thinker
• Planning and organizing skills
• Problem solving and analysis
• Interpersonal skills

Should you not receive a response from us within one week of your application, your application has unfortunately not been successful.