Business Intelligence Business Analyst

Mindworx Consulting; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindworx Consulting seeks a seasoned Data & Analytics Business Analyst to translate business requirements into functional specifications and analytics solutions. You will collaborate with Product Owners, data architects, and stakeholders to shape data and analytics deliverables in an agile environment.

The role emphasizes strong communication, proactive requirements elicitation, and rigorous data modeling across reports and dashboards, with responsibility for governance, testing, and continuous

Qualifications

• 5+ years of drafting functional specifications.
• 5+ years BI analysis, data design, and systems analysis in a data & analytics environment.
• 5+ years of stakeholder engagement to identify and specify business requirements.
• 5+ years liaising between business and functional stakeholders; translating requirements.
• 3+ years of Business Information analysis in a finance/banking environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (advantageous).
• AWS Certification advantageous.
• Martech experience advantageous.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices (Scrum, Kanban, Lean).
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving.
• Ability to work independently and in an Agile team environment.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify, clarify, and document data and analytics requirements.
• Liaises with POs to understand and document data and analytics requirements; performing analytical processes and measures.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios.
• Provide functional input during planning, design, and implementation phases of projects between Data Chapter, Data Squad, and business.
• Assist stakeholders with data-related scoping and planning.
• Apply end-to-end best practices to deliver data and analytics requirements.
• Ensure testing is done and support UAT.
• Provide business with functional and technical assistance during data and analytics implementations.
• Identify improvement opportunities using data and analytics knowledge.
• Own ongoing professional development in data and analytics trends.
• Document relevant data and analytics technical requirements and map solutions to sources.
• Collaborate with Data Architects and Data Modellers on analytic solutions."
• Provide input to data governance and QA; communicate risks.
• Perform functional testing and data validation of reports and analytics deliverables.
• Facilitate the Data Product Life Cycle and governance processes.
• Act as custodian of the reporting catalog and information framework.
• Support governance processes across teams.

Skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methodologies

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Certification

Martech experience

Job description

Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities and KRA’s:

• Identify, clarify, and agree on data and analytics requirements.
• Liaises with POs to understand and document their data and analytics requirements; performing analytical processes and measures related to the processes.
• Adopts multiple actions with stakeholders to elicit the requirements; uses interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, user cases, scenarios, and business analysis.
• Provides functional knowledge and expert input during planning, design and implementation phases of projects and initiatives between Data Chapter, Data Squad, and business.
• Assists stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers) with data-related scoping and planning.
• Applies end-to-end best practices to deliver data and analytics requirements.
• Ensures appropriate testing is done and provides the business with assistance during user acceptance testing.
• Provides business with functional and technical assistance during data and analytics implementations.
• Applies business and data and analytics functional knowledge at all times to identify possible improvement opportunities and motivate with business.
• Owns personal continued professional development to remain current with data and analytics industry trends, particularly around data and analytics tools and technologies.
• Analyses, understands, and documents relevant data and analytics technical requirements; performs data modeling and maps the analytic solution to the relevant data sources.
• Works closely with the Data Architect(s) and Data Modeller(s) to design, refine, and implement analytic solutions to execute the functional design of the relevant data and analytics solution; including reports and dashboards.
• Provides input to data governance and data and analytics quality assurance; identifies and communicates all risks.
• Performs functional testing and data validation of reports and other data and analytics deliverables before presenting to business users.
• Applies data and analytics functional knowledge at all times to identify and motivate possible data and analytics support/improvements.
• Facilitate the Data Product Life Cycle and application of best practices/processes.
• Acts as the custodian of the reporting catalog; maintains the information framework and reports.
• Facilitates the process between all teams regarding data governance and processes.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of proven experience in drafting functional specifications
• At least 5 years of proven BI Business Analysis, data design, and systems analysis experience in a data and analytics environment
• At least 5 years of Stakeholder engagement to identify and specify business requirements experience.
• At least 5 years of Liaising between business and functional stakeholders; translating requirements experience
• 3+ Years of Business Information Business Analysis experience in a finance/banking environment
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar fields like Information Systems, Big Data, etc would be advantageous.
• AWS Certification would be advantageous
• Martech (Marketing Technology) experience advantageous
• Related Technical certifications
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment in an Agile framework
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills