Intermediate Feature Analyst

Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) Ltd (PFA); Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA) Ltd (PFA) is seeking a Feature Analyst to translate business needs into clear user stories and specifications. The role collaborates closely with business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams to clarify requirements and develop acceptance criteria and process documentation.

Responsibilities include decomposing epics, refining product solutions, managing project backlogs for small projects, and contributing to feasibility studies.

Qualifications

• Translate business needs into user stories and functional specs.
• Refine epics into features and user stories with acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Analyze feasibility and relevance of proposed features aligned to business goals.
• Decompose epics into features and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Ensure alignment with program increments.
• Refine product solutions with business and technical teams.
• Collect and document requirements using interviews, documents, and workflow analysis.
• Document as-is and to-be processes and changes needed.
• Contribute to feasibility studies from technological and organizational perspectives.
• Identify solution recommendations for well-understood business needs.
• Perform customer journey mapping and voice of the customer techniques.
• Explore external developments and assess their potential impact.

Skills

Agile

Backlog management

Stakeholder engagement

Business analysis

Education

Matriculation Certificate

Job description

Let's Write Africa's Story Together! Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

Old Mutual is a dynamic, purpose-driven organisation where talented people come together to create meaningful impact for our customers, communities and the markets we serve. We embrace diverse perspectives, encourage collaboration and invest in the growth of our people, creating opportunities to build capability and contribute to the success of a trusted African financial services organisation.

The Feature Analyst supports the translation of business needs into clear user stories, functional specifications and requirements that enable effective solution delivery. Working closely with business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, the role helps clarify requirements and contributes to the development of key artefacts, including acceptance criteria and process documentation.

The role supports a shared understanding of epics and features, ensuring clarity around the business need and the value solutions are intended to deliver. It provides an opportunity to build foundational expertise in functional analysis, stakeholder engagement and Agile delivery practices within a collaborative technology environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Feature Product Solution and Development | Product Development
  • Analyze and evaluate the feasibility and relevance of proposed features and user stories aligned to business goals.
  • Decompose epics into features and features into user stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria,
  • Ensure alignment with program increments.
  • Collaborate with business and technical teams to refine product solutions.
• Agile Backlog Management | Project / Program / Portfolion Management
  • Review the backlog of work for a small projects and reprioritize the work and deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.
  • Manage and analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion
  • Identify, elicit, and document project/process requirements, using appropriate modeling technique, if required.
  • Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.
• Business Requirements Identification | Information Techncoloty / Digital | Business Systems Analysis
  • Support collection of business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, and workflow analysis, to express requirements clearly and succinctly.
• Analysis of "As Is" and "To Be"
  • Support and contribute to the documentation of "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required.
• Feasibility Studies
  • Contribute to and support feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective, and document findings.
• Enterprise Business Analysis
  • Identify solution recommendations to business problems when given fairly well understood business needs at a business unit level.
• Customer Experience Mapping | Sales | General
  • Perform and implement techniques, such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis, to identify customer pain points, challenges, and hurdles.
• Horizon Scanning | GENERAL | INNOVATION
  • Explore and develop a basic understanding of external developments or emerging issues and contribute to the evaluation of their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Testing | Research and Development
  • Provides input into test cases. Validates features against acceptance criteria.

Education

Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

Closing Date 16 November 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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