Front Arena Business Analyst I 1

Nedbank

Johannesburg

On-site

ZAR 500,000 - 700,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading financial institution in South Africa is looking for a Front Arena Business Analyst. This role involves leading business analysis for complex projects, engaging with stakeholders, and applying agile methodologies. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years of experience in business analysis, strong leadership skills, and a thorough understanding of data and process engineering. You will work collaboratively with Product Designers, Architects, and various teams to deliver valuable business outcomes. Join us to make a significant impact in our projects.

Qualifications

7 - 10 years experience in business analysis with managerial experience.
BA experience managing multiple IT projects in complex environments.
Exposure to enterprise-wide programs.

Responsibilities

Lead planning and monitoring tasks for large-scale initiatives.
Engage stakeholders and confirm requirement results.
Conduct requirement analysis, structuring, and validation.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Process engineering

Strategic planning

Education

Honours Degree

Job description

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, find a way to deliver business value for any change challenge, guide others to help them deliver better business outcomes, and provide 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 and/or act as the business subject matter expert.

Job Classification

Front Arena Business Analyst -141581

Luthando Bower

Closing date

Ongoing

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Career Stream

Process

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Expert

Job Responsibilities

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 synthesize 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 BDMs
Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for backlog discovery and delivery, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to executive level
Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A, implement suggestions and drive continuous improvement
Actively participate and lead portfolio/squad ceremonies by pairing with SMs, ACs, POs, Epic/BITE 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