IT Business Analyst (Broader Africa)

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IT Business Analyst (Broader Africa)

Apply locations Johannesburg time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: April 24, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id R32524

Job Description

RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact. United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.

Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

The purpose of the role is as follows:

To design, specify, build, configure and test solutions for delivering the necessary capability to business that enables quality solutions and a client centric orientation. These include pricing and risk management solutions along with their related IT processes.

Are you someone who can:

• Engagement with stakeholders to understand business problems, needs and translate those into detailed business and/or functional requirements that include process, data, people and workflow specifications.
• Analyse and understand the end-to-end flow of the payments system architecture and consider all touchpoints and impacts when analysing new business requirements or changes to existing business requirements.
• Apply business analysis best-practices, consistent with the BABOK principles and standards.
• Identify and promote optimisation, re-use and standardisation opportunities within Platforms.
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve positive outcomes.
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered.
• Engage and collaborate with the vendor on suitable solutions for incidents, production issues or new requirements.
• Assist with query and complaint management in a timeous manner.
• Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
• Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented.
• Assist the PM or Platform Lead by advising, investigating, estimating, and calculating costs, timelines, resources and plans approval of the project stage business cases.
• Facilitate workshops in conjunction with the PM in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project.
• Project manage a sub-project or work stream, when required to do so by the PM or Platform Lead.
• Assist the PM or Platform Lead to generate weekly/monthly or adhoc status reports, using input from project teams for reporting to Project Sponsor.
• Perform root cause analysis with stakeholders, conduct interviews or workshops to further evaluate and identify solutions to meet business requirements.

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

• Expert knowledge of SWIFT MT/FIN messages and processes.
• ISO20022 knowledge and ISO20022 message processes.
• Understanding of the FIN/MT to ISO20022 translation mapping.
• Expert knowledge and experience in SWIFT gpi services.
• Knowledge of TIBCO integration services.
• Understanding the various Payment market infrastructures, for e.g., SAMOS, CBPR, SADC RTGS(SIRESS).
• Work experience within Payment’s domain (processing, clearing, Swift).
• Knowledge of cross-border payments regulations.

Additional Requirements:

• Familiarity with vendor management.
• Knowledge of integration architecture.
• Understanding of the Capital Markets Products and Business environment.
• Knowledge of Payment systems.

Qualifications and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems/Technology, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline is required, or equivalent work experience.

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Challenging working.
• Opportunities to innovate.

We can be a match if you are:

• Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to.
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it.
• Love putting our clients at the forefront of what you do.

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Job Details

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

24/04/25

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

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About Us

A leading corporate and investment bank in South Africa and the broader Africa continent, RMB offers large corporate and institutional clients innovative, value-added advisory, funding, trading, corporate banking and principal investing solutions. RMB’s talent is expected to be high performing whilst fixing for real-world challenges such as funding the green economy through sustainable finance transactions; unlocking transformation with innovative BEE deals; providing financial and strategic support to management teams in the unlisted sector; financing infrastructure that will uplift economies and improve the lives of millions of people – all of this is about thinking big.

If you are invested in making a difference on a serious scale, RMB is where you should build your career and explore new ways to contribute to a better world.