Senior Business Analyst III

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 650 000 - 850 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Johannesburg is seeking a Senior Business Analyst III to support product development and engage with stakeholders. The role involves facilitating workshops, gathering and analyzing requirements, and ensuring compliance with documentation standards. The ideal candidate must have a Bachelor's degree in Business or related field, possess 8-10 years of analytical experience, preferably with banking background. Knowledge of BPMN and process transformation is essential, and the position is critical for aligning business needs with technology capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years experience as a business analyst
• Experience with systems design, testing, and troubleshooting preferred
• Banking experience required

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops with business users to gather requirements
• Maintain communication with all project stakeholders
• Translate business needs into technical requirements

Skills

Facilitating workshops

Stakeholder communication

Requirements translation

Test plan creation

Implementation support

Education

Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Business, Computer Science, or Information Systems

Tools

BPMN

Business Process Reengineering

Business Intelligence

Job description

About the job Senior Business Analyst III (Taas 5, 6, 7)

Key purpose:

As a Business Analyst, you'll support the company's product development by performing analysis and research tasks. You will be involved in the entire product lifecycle: defining business requirements, designing solutions, and documenting them through to deployment. You'll also work with other departments to ensure that they're adhering to defined standards when it comes to documentation or implementation of new features.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Experience in facilitating workshops with business users (up to executive level) in order to gather requirements, generate ideas and validate designs. Scoping, sizing and planning all business aspects of a solution and the associated project effort and dependencies.
• Establishes and maintains open, honest communication with all project stakeholders
• Identifies an appropriate method to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Creates test plans to validate the technical requirements
• Assists with implementation/implementation or support of new or modified software projects as needed
• 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 organization on medium to large projects/medium risk
• To recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals and elicit and analyze the actual needs of the stakeholders; facilitate communication between organizational 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

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors degree or Diploma in Business, Computer Science, or Information Systems
• Must have at least 8-10 years experience as a business analyst involved with assessing, mapping and optimizing business processes.
• Experience with systems design, testing, and troubleshooting is a plus
• Banking experience required
• Experience in applying process modelling standards such as, BPMN. Knowledge of and exposure to business process transformation, including process enabling and integrating technologies:
• Business Process Reengineering
• Workflow / Workflow management / Process automation
• Business Rules Engines (Business Rules Processing)
• Presentation technologies
• Business Intelligence, Analytics and Reporting