Senior Business Analyst

Kamo Placements; Somerset West; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the consulting sector is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements elicitation and facilitate business process improvements. The role involves mentoring junior analysts and ensuring alignment of business objectives with comprehensive documentation. Candidates should have extensive experience and a relevant tertiary qualification.

Qualifications

• 9+ years experience as a Business Analyst in large-scale solutions.
• Thorough understanding of SDLC and business analysis role.
• Demonstrated use of BPMN and UML standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation sessions with client stakeholders.
• Analyse complex business processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Guide and mentor Junior Business Analysts.

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements Elicitation

Stakeholder Engagement

Systems Thinking

Business Modelling

Software Testing

Education

Tertiary qualification in Commerce, Informatics, Industrial Engineering, or Information Systems

Business Analysis diploma/certification

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

Function Point measurement

Job description

Senior Business Analyst
JOB DESCRIPTION

• Lead and facilitate requirements elicitation sessions with client stakeholders through workshops, interviews, and collaborative discussions to ensure comprehensive and accurate requirement gathering.
• Analyse complex business processes, systems, data flows, and rules to identify improvement opportunities, provide input to inform solution design, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Take ownership of the full requirements lifecycle, including the analysis, capture, refinement, validation, and traceability of requirements using Enterprise Architect (EA) and company standards.
• Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, and aligned to business goals, and oversee the creation and maintenance of supporting documentation and artefacts.
• Lead the verification and validation of built systems by reviewing actual behaviour against specified functional requirements and driving resolution of any discrepancies.
• Guide and mentor Junior Business Analysts in best practices for documentation quality, traceability, stakeholder engagement, and prioritisation based on customer value and delivery impact.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support effective prioritisation and sequencing of requirements, considering business value, technical feasibility, and interdependencies.
• Analyse and inform of the impact of requirement changes on existing business processes and systems, providing input to support accurate costing.
• Promote a systems-thinking approach by evaluating broader operational context — including performance, exception handling, and business continuity — when assessing solution options or impacts.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Experience and Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in Commerce, Informatics, Industrial Engineering, or Information Systems (or similar).
• Business Analysis diploma/certification (advantageous)
• 9 or more years demonstrated experience as a Business Analyst in the functional analysis, design, and qualification of large-scale business solutions in a transaction based and message rich business systems environment.
• Thorough understanding of SDLC and the role of the business analyst in it, from initiation through to transition into the target operational environment.
• Demonstrated use of business modelling techniques in accordance with BPMN and UML standards.
• Knowledge of Software testing/QA
• Demonstrated use of Sparx Enterprise Architect (advantageous)
• Demonstrated use of Function Point measurement (advantageous)

Desired Skills:

• • Knowledge of Software testing/QA
• Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Function Point measurement