Specialist: Business Analysis

Absa Group; Johannesburg; Hybride; ZAR 700 000 - 950 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Absa Group in Johannesburg seeks a Specialist Business Analyst to translate business needs into actionable insights, requirements, and solutions. You will bridge gaps between stakeholders and delivery teams, driving transformation and ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and data integrity.

You will lead end-to-end business analysis, develop detailed requirements and user stories, and collaborate with architects and tech teams to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into actionable requirements.
• Experience with process modeling and user story creation.

Responsabilités

• Shape and implement business analysis strategies aligned with transformation objectives.
• Translate strategic goals into actionable requirements and process designs.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing and validate solutions post-implementation.

Connaissances

Business Analysis

Requirements gathering

Process modeling

User stories

Formation

Bachelor's Degree

Description du poste

## Specialist: Business AnalysisApply: Hybrid: Johannesburg: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: November 18, 2026 (5 days left to apply): R-15992691### **Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together...one story at a time.**With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.**Belonging at Absa***Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from suitably qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds. In support of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) commitments and Employment Equity objectives, preference may be given to candidates from underrepresented designated groups, including persons with disabilities. We encourage applicants who may require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process to let us know so that appropriate support can be provided.***Job Summary**The Specialist Business Analyst is a strategic and delivery-focused role responsible for translating business needs into actionable insights, requirements, and solutions that drive operational efficiency, customer centricity, and strategic change. The role serves as a critical link between business stakeholders and delivery teams, enabling transformation by aligning business processes, capabilities, data, and systems with organizational objectives. This position leads the execution of structured business analysis practices to support project delivery, service optimization, and stakeholder engagement. It fosters analytical rigor across business units, facilitates cross functional collaboration, and ensures that business solutions are accurate, scalable, and aligned with enterprise strategy, delivery frameworks, and industry best practices.**Job Description****Strategic Business Analysis & Transformation**• Shape and implement business analysis strategies aligned with business priorities andtransformation objectives.• Translate strategic goals into actionable business requirements, process models, and solutionrecommendations.• Design and evolve business capability frameworks that support digital adoption, operational agility,and customer-centric transformation.• Apply data-driven analysis and design thinking to uncover insights, define problems, andrecommend innovative solutions.• Lead feasibility assessments, contribute to business case development, and ensure alignment ofsolutions with strategic investment priorities.**Design & Delivery of Business Solutions**• Own the end-to-end business analysis lifecycle for solutions that enhance customer and colleagueexperience.• Develop detailed business requirements, process flows, and user stories that support seamless,omnichannel interactions.• Collaborate with solution architects and technology delivery teams to ensure business requirementsare translated into scalable, testable solutions.• Identify and recommend enabling technologies, tools, and platforms that accelerate solution deliveryand value realisation.**Collaboration, Alignment & Governance**• Partner with Technology, Architecture, and business teams to ensure alignment between businessneeds and IT capabilities.• Support governance processes by ensuring business analysis outputs comply with group standards,risk frameworks, and data integrity principles.• Present business requirements, process designs, and analysis findings in forums to supportdecision-making and alignment.• Co-ordinate and lead the User Acceptance Testing, in ensuring that business is clear on the requireand create test cases that ensure thorough testing of the solution prior to deployment into production.• Monitor solution performance post-implementation, ensuring business outcomes are achieved andaligned with strategic metrics.**Capability Building & Thought Leadership**• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to building enterprise-wide capability in business analysis andstrategic delivery.• Lead or participate in communities of practice to evolve business analysis methodologies andframeworks.• Embed within agile delivery teams to ensure continuous alignment between business needs andsolution development, fostering knowledge transfer and iterative improvement. **Education**Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)