Intermediate Business Analyst

BETSoftware; Durban; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Durban is looking for a Business Analyst with strong project management skills and 2-3 years of experience. The successful candidate will communicate with departments, conduct testing, and ensure customer needs are prioritized. A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required. This position offers the opportunity to work on large-scale projects and contribute to improving work processes.

Qualifications

• 2 – 3 years’ experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Must have experience working on large scale projects.
• Understanding of Indices, fundamentals and analytical data.

Responsibilities

• Communicates with departments to identify work shortfalls.
• Conducts quality assurance tests and regression testing of applications.
• Makes optimal use of time to ensure maximum output.

Skills

Strong project management skills

Excellent relationship building skills

Strong ability to multitask

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/IT/BA or Certificate in BA related field

Tools

SQL

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Description

• Strong project management skills
• Excellent relationship building skills & communication skills.
• Strong ability to multitask.

Responsibilities

Communication, Implementation and Delivery

• Communicates with departments to identify work shortfalls and areas where the development team can assist in improving work processes.
• Assists and advises the developers and software architects on how an application should work, what needs are to be met and dictate the flow and user interface to determine what the users must see.
• Participates in review and testing throughout the project life cycle.
• Conducts quality assurance tests and regression testing of applications and software.
• Conducts and supervise group testing of complete applications and software.
• Identifies and eliminates the factors within the applications that may pose a risk to the business.
• Creates wireframes and mock-ups to assist business in visualising changes.
• Shares new business ideas and improves current business work practices.
• Improves the functionality of our end user services such as web, mobi and feature phone applications.
• Is involved in making user manuals for system applications.
• Is involved in commercials and brochure content in potential marketing of system applications.

Time Management

• Makes optimal use of time to ensure maximum output and delivery as per required timeframes.
• Prioritises and anticipates timeframes.
• Identifies possible delays in advance and plan accordingly.

Customer Care

• Makes customer needs a primary focus of one’s actions.
• Follows up on requests timeously to ensure that the final product or service met expectations.
• Effectively manages customers’ expectations, end-to-end, by ensuring the relationship and customer priority is maintained throughout the delivery/resolution process.
• Exceeds the clients' expectations regarding service delivery.
• Demonstrates concern and understanding for customer expectations & needs and ensures customer needs are made priority.

Living our spirit

• Engages in cross-functional collaboration and problem solving whilst encourages a culture of inclusivity.
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
• Shows up in an authentic manner and leverages off the team’s diversity to achieve deliverables.
• Views challenges as opportunities to expand on their knowledge base as well as encourages junior team members to do the same, and takes a creative approach to overcoming the challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business/IT/BA or Certificate in BA related field.
• 2 – 3 years’ experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Must have experience working on large scale projects as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business.
• Understanding of Indices, fundamentals and analytical data, returns level data, etc.
• Data analysis – SQL and Microsoft Excel (advantageous).