Senior Business Analyst - Digital Transformation

Praesignis (Pty) Ltd; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Praesignis (Pty) Ltd, a leading financial services organisation, is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a large-scale digital transformation. You will translate business needs into clear requirements, processes and specifications, working across business and technology teams to deliver complex digital solutions.

Key responsibilities include facilitating requirements workshops, documenting processes, and supporting Agile delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Senior Business Analyst in a large enterprise.
• Proven experience delivering complex digital or technology solutions.
• Strong requirements gathering and business process analysis experience.
• Experience across multiple Agile delivery workstreams.
• Experience with APIs, system integrations and backend platforms.
• Excellent analytical, documentation and communication skills.
• Experience in financial services, banking or insurance is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and document business requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear functional specifications and actionable delivery requirements.
• Analyse and document current and future-state business processes.
• Work closely with Product, Technology, Architecture and Delivery teams.
• Facilitate requirements workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Identify business, process, integration and system dependencies.
• Support the design of digital solutions, workflows and business rules.
• Ensure requirements are clearly understood and successfully transitioned into implementation.
• Support Agile delivery teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to process automation and workflow design.
• Support integration requirements across digital channels, APIs and backend platforms.
• Assist with testing, validation and business acceptance of delivered solutions.
• Produce clear and accurate BA documentation and support programme governance and reporting where required.

Skills

Senior business analyst

Requirements gathering

Business process analysis

Agile delivery

Documentation

Stakeholder management

API integrations

Digital solutions

Communication skills

Job description

Our client, a leading financial services organisation, is looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a large-scale digital transformation programme.

The successful candidate will work across business and technology teams to translate business needs into clear requirements, processes and functional specifications, supporting the delivery of complex digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gather, analyse and document business requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear functional specifications and actionable delivery requirements.
• Analyse and document current and future-state business processes.
• Work closely with Product, Technology, Architecture and Delivery teams.
• Facilitate requirements workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Identify business, process, integration and system dependencies.
• Support the design of digital solutions, workflows and business rules.
• Ensure requirements are clearly understood and successfully transitioned into implementation.
• Support Agile delivery teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to process automation and workflow design.
• Support integration requirements across digital channels, APIs and backend platforms.
• Assist with testing, validation and business acceptance of delivered solutions.
• Produce clear and accurate BA documentation and support programme governance and reporting where required.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience as a Senior Business Analyst in a large enterprise environment.
• Proven experience delivering complex digital or technology solutions.
• Strong requirements gathering and business process analysis experience.
• Experience working across multiple Agile delivery workstreams.
• Strong understanding of digital applications and enterprise technology environments.
• Experience working with APIs, system integrations and backend platforms.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills across business and technology teams.
• Experience within financial services, banking or insurance is highly advantageous.
• Excellent analytical, documentation and communication skills.

Advantageous Experience:

• Insurance or banking domain experience.
• Collections, payments, debit orders or DebiCheck.
• Digital and mobile application delivery.
• Process automation and workflow orchestration.Business rules and decisioning.
• API-led integration and enterprise systems integration.
• Real-time processing environments.
• Experience working within large-scale digital transformation programmes.