Senior Business Analyst: Credit Systems (Banking)

Talent Candey; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Candey’s Banking Client in Somerset West seeks a Senior Business Analyst: Credit Systems to lead the LMS from ground up, shaping lending capability and system behaviour. You will become the functional authority on LMS configuration, events, rules and lifecycle, working with vendors and engineers to deliver a compliant, scalable platform.

The role emphasises greenfield development, regulatory compliance and strong BA governance across regulatory credit terms and data handling.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Loan Management System or lending platform implementations.
• Strong understanding of credit lifecycle and lending products.
• Formal Business Analysis qualifications beneficial; demonstrated capability valued.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep LMS functional knowledge, capabilities, and configuration options.
• Translate credit product requirements into LMS functionality, rules and behavior.
• Produce high-quality BA documentation: requirements, user stories, rules, data needs, acceptance criteria and traceability.
• Define lending products, account structures, states, events and lifecycle behaviour.
• Support testing and implementation; ensure delivered behavior matches product intent.
• Investigate LMS incidents, determine root causes and suggest fixes.
• Apply regulatory knowledge (NCA, POPIA) to ensure compliant LMS configuration.

Skills

LMS knowledge

Credit systems

Business Analysis

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

APIs

Job description

Senior Business Analyst: Credit Systems ( Banking) - CPT

Our Banking Client is currently looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst: Credit Systems based in Somerset West.

Please note this is an EE Position

This is a permanent, full-time position within the Credit division, reporting to the Product Manager. The role operates within the first line of defence: Credit / Product & Technology.

Role Purpose

The successful candidate will help build and establish the bank’s lending capability from the ground up, becoming the functional authority for its Loan Management System (LMS).

The role requires an understanding of both what the business needs the lending platform to do and how the LMS must be configured and behave to deliver those requirements.

The successful candidate will develop deep knowledge of the LMS’s functionality, features, configuration, business rules, account states, events and behaviours. They will be a key point of contact when the system does not behave as expected.

The focus is on establishing new lending capability from scratch, extending beyond maintaining a mature lending platform or delivering a backlog of incremental enhancements.

Key Responsibilities

LMS Functional Ownership

• Develop deep functional knowledge of the LMS, including its capabilities, limitations and configuration options.
• Translate credit product requirements into detailed LMS functionality, configuration, business rules and system behaviour.
• Define lending products, account structures, account states, events, transactions and lifecycle behaviour.
• Understand how interest, fees, repayments, settlements, arrears, treatments and other lending events should behave within the LMS.

Requirements and Solution Definition

• Work directly with LMS vendors, engineers and technical teams to translate business intent into executable solutions.
• Produce high-quality Business Analysis documentation, including requirements, user stories, business rules, state models, data requirements, configuration specifications, acceptance criteria and traceability.
• Understand the LMS’s role within the broader credit ecosystem.
• Identify the impact of changes on connected systems and processes.

Delivery, Testing and Implementation Support

• Support testing and implementation.
• Validate that delivered system behaviour matches the agreed product intent.
• Remain actively involved throughout delivery, taking ownership beyond the handover of requirements.

Incident Investigation and Knowledge Management

• Investigate LMS-related incidents and unexpected system behaviour.
• Determine root causes and define corrective requirements.
• Establish and maintain the organisation’s knowledge base for LMS functionality and configuration.
• Use AI and modern analysis tools to accelerate analysis, scenario generation, requirements development, quality assurance and problem-solving.

Regulatory and Governance Knowledge

• The successful candidate must apply working knowledge of:
• The National Credit Act (NCA), ensuring LMS configuration—including interest, fees, arrears and treatments—reflects lawful credit terms and disclosures.
• Credit lifecycle fundamentals, including acquisition, onboarding, assessment, decisioning, bureau information, account management, servicing and collections.
• The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), ensuring LMS data handling and configuration support lawful processing.
• The regulated credit environment, ensuring customer experience, commercial outcomes, risk and responsible lending work together.

Requirements

Experience

• Proven experience implementing, configuring or materially building a Loan Management System or lending platform.
• Strong understanding of consumer lending products and the credit lifecycle.
• Experience with significant greenfield or transformational technology initiatives.
• Strong Business Analysis fundamentals across requirements, business rules, data, processes, testing and implementation.
• Experience working directly with software engineers, architects and technology vendors.
• Understanding of APIs, integrations, data and system behaviour.
• Banking or financial services experience.
• Formal Business Analysis qualifications are beneficial; however, demonstrated capability and evidence of what the candidate has built carry more weight than tenure or certification alone.

Approach and Working Style

• A builder with tangible examples of lending or credit platforms, capabilities or major processes created from scratch.
• A systems thinker who can move comfortably between strategic product discussions and detailed conversations about specific account events or system configuration.
• Technically fluent and able to work effectively with engineers and Solution Architects, without needing to be a developer.
• Takes ownership of LMS problems through to resolution.

Key Competencies

The following competencies apply across the client’s Senior Business Analyst: Credit specialisations:

• Builder mentality: Proven experience creating capabilities, platforms or processes from scratch, beyond maintaining or incrementally enhancing established systems.
• Credit depth: An established understanding of lending fundamentals.
• Banking understanding: Understands the broader ecosystem in which credit operates.
• Systems thinking: Considers the impact of requirements on customers, channels, processes, data, systems, integrations and controls.
• Deep curiosity: Questions initial explanations and investigates until the underlying problem is understood.
• Structured problem-solving: Works effectively with ambiguity and breaks complex problems into executable components.
• Constructive challenge: Confidently questions Product, Technology and other stakeholders where evidence supports a better solution.
• Technical fluency: Comfortable discussing APIs, integrations, data and system behaviour with engineers and architects, without needing to be a developer.
• AI-enabled working: Actively uses modern AI tools to accelerate discovery, analysis, documentation and quality assurance while applying human judgement and remaining accountable for the output.