Business Systems Analyst

Decision Inc.; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 540,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Decision Inc. is seeking a Business Systems Analyst to join our Automated Digital Applications team. The role involves engaging with client stakeholders to understand requirements and business problems, translating these into IT solutions.

The successful candidate will work across consultation, scoping, development, implementation, and administration, producing user stories, functional specs, and system designs to deliver value for our clients.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of Business Analysis experience.
• Strong process design and optimisation experience.
• Experience with SDLC and/or Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently with both technical and business users at various levels.

Responsibilities

• Understand client environment, industry, and business challenges.
• Elicit underlying problems and recommend business and systems solutions.
• Capture requirements and develop user stories and functional specifications.
• Create system design specifications for client solutions.
• Coordinate with development teams to translate requirements into solutions.
• Ensure delivery aligns with project goals and client expectations.

Skills

Business analysis

SDLC & Agile

Communication

Requirements gathering

Problem solving

Stakeholder engagement

Education

IT degree (BCom/BSc/BTech)

BA certifications

PM/Administration experience

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Low/no-code platforms (Nintex, Power Apps, Automation Anywhere)

Job description

Decision Inc. is currently looking for a Business Systems Analyst to join our Automated Digital Applications team. The Business Systems Analyst will engage with client stakeholders to understand requirements and business problems and how these need to be solved through the implementation of IT solutions.

Who Are We?

Decision Inc. is a global digital partner that enables businesses to reinvent themselves to realise their full potential.

We deliver agility, resilience, and intelligence to any enterprise, enabling them to adapt quickly and thrive through innovation and opportunity. Our teams have engaged with more than 400 clients globally over the past 15 years, providing them with the expertise to build, operate, and optimise their digital businesses.

We achieve this by leveraging the world’s best technology to drive our client’s business ambitions forward into tomorrow's reality. These technologies include but are not limited to: Microsoft, SAP, Qlik, Snowflake, Alteryx, Automation Anywhere, and Workday Adaptive Insights.

Our success is ultimately driven by our entrepreneurial culture, industry exposure, and the passion of our people. We have three key cross-functional teams – Functional and Specialist Consulting, Development, and Engineering teams. Based in four global offices, our exceptional consultants focus on delivering value to clients by keeping them at the centre of our service delivery. To find out more about our exciting fast-paced culture visit: Careers at Decision Inc.

What Will You Do?

Key Responsibility

Consultation

• Quickly understand the client environment and industry, their business challenges, and issues
• Elicit underlying problems and make recommendations and suggestions from a business and systems perspective to the client
• Become a subject matter expert in the industries and business functions of the clients we engage in
• Work together with UX/UI specialists to research and understand client business and industries to provide developers with insights and information to enable the creation of solutions and systems that create value for the customer
• Manage client expectations effectively on assigned projects

Scoping

• Initiate dialog with business areas to develop an understanding of their business needs and gaps
• Perform requirements gathering & analysis through client interviews and workshops
• Conduct and attend JAD sessions to solve business requirements
• Prioritize independently, multiple requests and system requirements to meet the organisational goals
• Identify client organisation's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement
• Documenting business and system requirements including business process, workflow and user interface
• Develop project artifacts such as user stories, functional specifications and system design specifications for client solution requirement
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and communicate needed changes to development teams

Development

• Ensure alignment between customer requirements and developer team
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner with support of PMO team
• Communicate needed changes to development team
• Assist in the facilitation of team and client meetings

Implementation

• Draw up test cases and perform solution quality assurance
• Perform testing to validate accuracy of delivered solutions
• Ensure issues are identified and resolved in a timely manner
• Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships

Administration

• Implement and coordinate documentation and project files for all projects
• Create user guides
• Prepare and setup client staff business training content

Technical

• The successful candidate will be required to become up-skilled in the Microsoft technologies stack in order to better understand how client challenges can be solved
• The candidate will learn how to use low/no code platforms to develop client solutions to solve business requirements and challenges and to automate and digitize their business processes

Who Do You Need to Be?

Essential

• 4-5 years Business Analysis experience
• Process Design & Optimisation experience
• Exposure to all SDLC and/or Agile/Waterfall project methodologies
• Well-developed communications and presentation skills with the ability to work in a team environment bringing various skills together
• The ability to work independently with both technical and business users at various levels
• Extensive knowledge of business systems
• Extensive quality assurance experience and best practices in this space
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and quality
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking
• Excellent grammatical, writing and editorial skills are required
• Ability to network and cultivate productive working relationships
• Time management, prioritization and organization with the ability to prioritize activities and lead multiple tasks at once
• Working with all levels within an organization including senior executives, managers, front lines, corporate and technical staff

Advantageous

• IT Degree (Bcom/BSc/Btech) or similar
• Business Analysis courses or certifications
• Project Management or Administration experience
• Experience with Microsoft tools such as Visio
• Experience in Low/no code development and automation platforms such as Nintex, Power Apps, Automation Anywhere etc.