Business Analyst Specialist - Contractor

nedbank; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the banking sector is seeking a Business Analyst Specialist to drive change and enhance business outcomes. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, conducting strategic analysis, and ensuring effective project delivery. Candidates need extensive experience in business analysis and agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of BA experience with managerial role for 1-2 years.
• Understanding of HR, Procurement, Corporate Real Estate processes.
• Safe Certification or any agile/scrum certification required.

Responsibilities

• Define change needs and manage solutions for business outcomes.
• Collaborate with teams on requirements and monitor project progress.
• Lead backlog refinement and ensure adherence to agile principles.

Skills

Business analysis

Design thinking

Strategy planning

Process Engineering

Decision Making

Technical Knowledge

Education

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Honour’s Degree

Tools

SAP BTP

SAP Fiori

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Office

Job description

Business Analyst Specialist - Contractor

Details

Location:

Johannesburg, ZA

Reference: 140623

Closing date: 27 June 2025

Contract Term

4 months

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Process

Manage Self: Expert

Job Purpose

To enable change by defining the needs and the rationale for change, to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state by applying the principles of business analysis, according to the requirements classification schema, from a diverse array of multi-functional perspectives with an agile mindset. Address complex challenges or opportunities, finds a way to deliver business value for any change challenge, guides others to help them deliver better business outcomes, is sought after for expertise and guidance in addressing business challenges, and provides insight to situations that fall within (or outside of) the sphere of influence. Pair with Product Designers (CX/UX), Business Architects, Testers (QA), Business data Managers (BDM) and key roles in the requirements value chain. Apply the principles of Product Ownership Analysis and the strategy-to-execution framework. Lead other BAs in delivery Enterprisewide solutions where this is a project requirement an/or act as the business subject matter expert.

• Conduct and lead others on iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
• Conduct and lead others on elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders and confirm the results.
• Conduct and lead others on requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.
• Conduct and lead others on Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
• Conduct and lead others on strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need.
• Conduct and lead others on 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 and lead others on according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on Nedbank's delivery approach as per the BA methods.
• Discover and deliver requirements based on changes across all seven product dimensions and requirements categories.
• Understand/co-create the operational value streams, enterprise strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics.
• Understand all elements of the portfolio, solution, program and team backlog.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs to realise this and participate to define the proposed solution.
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, and Enterprisewide dependencies.
• Document Epics/features/themes to analyse user stories - identify gaps, missing stories, 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 and ensure reuse of requirements.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Architect.
• Drive resolutions for impediments and spikes and enabler epics/stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements.
• Drive collaboration with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct UAT and train the trainer/user, support change management and the product manager with commercialisation.
• Lead all aspects of Backlog Refinement and increment planning and champion DevOps & Built-in quality principles and limit WIP.
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows/ ERDs through all 7 product dimensions on a portfolio level by pairing with Data Managers.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for backlog discovery and delivery, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to executive level.
• Conduct system demos and contribute to Inspect & Adapt, implement suggestions and drive continuous improvement.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, Epic Owners.
• Champion minimum viable thinking by defining, prioritising, estimating and planning small increments to achieve increment plans.
• Drive early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues and dependencies within scope and across projects

Formal Qualification

• Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• Preferred Qualification
• Honour’s Degree
• Essential Certifications
• Safe Certificationor any agile/scrum certification
• Preferred Certifications
• Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA

Minimum Experience Level

• Minimum Experience Level
• 7 - 10 years
• Managerial: 1 - 2 years
• BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex enterprise wide programmes, business and industry exposure and Lead BA role.
• Understanding of HR, Procurement, Corporate Real Estate and Finance processes.
• SAP BTP , Workzone and SAP Fiori
• Jira/Confluence Usage
• Research methodology
• Business analysis
• Design thinking
• Strategy planning and execution
• BA Body of Knowledge
• Agile Concepts Skills
• Process Engineering Skills
• Business Analysis Discipline, Techniques and Practices
• Global business analysis Trend
• Microsoft Office Product
• Decision Making
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Driving Innovation
• Digital Acumen
• Coaching
• Building Networks

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