Senior Business & Systems Analyst – AI-Driven, Cross-Domain

Edge Executive Search Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Edge Executive Search Group seeks a Senior Analyst in Business and Systems Analysis to lead complex initiatives across technology domains within a regulated financial-services environment. The role emphasizes AI-assisted tooling, requirements recovery from legacy systems and stakeholder collaboration.

You will drive elicitation, modelling and validation, maintaining traceability from business need to solution delivery, while partnering with architects, engineers and product owners to shape

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.
• Business Analysis certification (IIBA CBAP or equivalent).
• At least 10 years’ experience in Business/Systems Analysis or similar role.
• Minimum 3 years on complex, multi-team or cross-domain initiatives.
• Experience across multiple business or technology domains or a shared services/consulting environment.
• Experience analysing existing systems for modernisation or migration incl. recovering requirements.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted tooling in analysis work.
• Advanced requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation capability.
• Strong modelling and Agile analysis skills (BPMN, UML, data modelling, interfaces).
• Knowledge of security, POPIA, governance and audit considerations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver analysis across complex, multi-team and cross-domain technology assignments.
• Develop analysis plans, estimate effort, identify dependencies and manage delivery against timelines.
• Elicit, analyse, specify and validate requirements through workshops, interviews and observation.
• Produce business requirements, functional/non-functional requirements, process models and user stories.
• Apply BPMN, UML, data modelling and interface specification techniques.
• Maintain traceability from business need to design and testing.
• Conduct feasibility, cost/benefit analyses and contribute to business cases.
• Work with architects/engineers to ensure designs meet requirements.
• Review test coverage and support UAT and defect triage.
• Use AI-assisted tooling to analyse source data and legacy systems.

Skills

Business analysis

Systems analysis

AI tooling

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Requirements elicitation

BPMN

UML

Data modelling

Agile analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / IS / Engineering

Honours or postgraduate qualification

IIBA CBAP or equivalent certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Modelling tools

Job description

Edge Executive Search Group seeks a Senior Analyst in Business and Systems Analysis to lead complex initiatives across technology domains within a regulated financial-services environment. The role emphasizes AI-assisted tooling, requirements recovery from legacy systems and stakeholder collaboration.

You will drive elicitation, modelling and validation, maintaining traceability from business need to solution delivery, while partnering with architects, engineers and product owners to shape