Senior Business Analyst (Contract)

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group in Sandton is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with over 10 years of experience in Agile environments. This role requires acting as a liaison among stakeholders, recommending solutions to achieve organizational goals, and analyzing complex needs.

The successful candidate will possess extensive experience in Banking and Credit sectors, ability to handle multiple initiatives, and strong stakeholder communication skills. Resilience and adaptability are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile working environment.
• Experience managing multiple initiatives concurrently.
• Preferable experience in Banking and Credit sectors.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison among stakeholders to understand their needs.
• Recommend solutions for organizational goals.
• Analyze stakeholder needs and facilitate communication.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Process analysis

Resilience

Job description

• To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems; opportunities; needs; structure; policies and operations of the organisation on large; high risk and complex projects.
• To recommend solutions that enable the organisation to achieve its goals.
• To elicit and analyse the actual needs of the stakeholders; facilitate communication between organisational units and play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and may serve as a translator between these groups.
• The senior BA has years of deep practical experience in the role; with repeated practice performing business analysis in a variety of complex situations.

Requirements

• 10+ years' experience as a BA Agile working environment experience
• Worked on multiple initiative concurrently
• Banking and Credit experience preferable
• Process analysis experience preferable
• Resilient and adaptable
• References must be provided