Business Solutions Analyst

Hollard; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic financial services company seeks a Solution Analyst to bridge the gap between business and technology. You will analyze business requirements, communicate changes to development teams, and support Agile practices. This role offers an opportunity to work with diverse stakeholders and contribute to continuous service improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to analyze business requirements and provide suitable solutions.
• Experience in conducting business process needs analysis.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Interact with stakeholders to gather business requirements.
• Conduct impact analysis for project enhancements.
• Define business-driven acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies to promote best practices.

Job description

Role Objectives :

The Solution Analyst is responsible for bridging the gap between business and technology and / software solutions team. Contributing to the documentation of business & stakeholder requirements. The Solution Analyst is responsible for assessing impact, identifying solution requirements, and recommending the outcome.

Role Responsibilities :

• Interacting with all relevant stakeholders and conducting business process needs analysis to understand requirements with an objective of producing a concise business case.
• Analyze and understand business requirements to identify changes and additions required to meet the business requirements.
• Conduct impact analysis to identify and understand risk associated with an enhancement or project as well as input to risk mitigation strategies.
• Make recommendations based on the interpretation of business requirements, ensure that all impacts have been carefully considered, analyzed and the resulting procedure and system configuration is the most appropriate and best meets the business need.
• Be responsible for providing multi-disciplinary teams with user stories and coaching to define the business driven acceptance criteria and test cases. Proactively support the uplift of Agile practices and foster a culture of continual service improvement.
• Communicate needed changes to development & testing team and ensure implementation thereof.
• Estimate the financial or other benefits of changes to processes, risks and / or potential impact and report to the relevant stakeholders if relevant.
• Participate in and facilitate relevant Agile ceremonies and rituals : Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Iteration / Release Planning, Showcases / Sprint Review, Retrospective.